A Simple Graphic To Show You Who Owns Your Favorite Food Brands

You can click on the link above to see a larger picture of this graphic, but here is the gist of where your food comes from. Only 10 companies are shown here. The rest are just sub-companies that the larger ones own. The result is the illusion of choice. These companies want you to think you are getting a unique product, but in actuality you are just buying one of their many products that’s not unique at all.

Beaver Anus is An Ingredient in Food Products

It’s called “castoreum,” and it’s emitted from the castor sacs within the animal’s anus. For a beaver, this slimy brown substance is used to mark its territory, but for us humans, it’s used as an additive that is often labeled as “natural flavoring” in the foods we eat – vanilla, strawberry and raspberry probably being the most common. So if this comes out of a beavers butt, does it smell? Actually, it doesn’t. Hence the reason for using it in foods, it actually smells good. The only way to be sure you’re not getting beaver butt is to read your labels.

Doctors Are Urging People To Stop Eating Hot Dogs

I think we all have heard bad things about hot dogs and that we shouldn’t be eating them because of the “mystery meat” that they are made up of. There has been recent information that justifies everyone’s concerns. According to new research, kids who eat 12 or more hot dogs in one month are 9 times more likely to develop childhood leukemia. Additionally, mothers who eat one hot dog per week during pregnancy increases their child’s likeliness of developing brain tumors later on in life. Equally, a father who often ate hot dogs before conceiving a child also imparts a high likeliness of cancer to his child. This new information is shocking, and should definitely make people think twice about eating them.