Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: How it is in Belgium

[Racheli Gai (racheli]

Hi Marie,
I'm wondering whether your agriculture is somewhat different, and whether
there are more regulations in place, insuring
that the food one buys is less contaminated?
Here (in the US), there is so little insistence that meat and such leaves
the processing plants only if it's
clean and safe.  The demands are placed on us, the consumers
to take extreme measures to insure that we don't poison
ourselves (and this is connected to how few corporations dominate the
production end of things, and have great power to influence governmental
regulations)...

I very much agree with the points you made.
Best,
R.


>Hallo everyone,
>I always read the co-housing mailing list with a lot of interest.  Over
>the months I have learned many new things. My thanks to you all out
>there! Today I want to share my opinion regarding  sterilizing dishes. In
>Belgium, like in France, people suffer less from foodpoisining, than for
>example in Britain.  I don't think this is because we are much cleaner,
>on the contrary, some restaurant-kitchen's are rather dirty, I would say. 
>But our eating-culture is different.  We eat a large variaty of food and
>we know how to cook it.  I think, that way, our resistance to food-bugs
>is higher, and that is what it is all about.  Using chloride and
>sterilizing ordinary dishes is bad for nature and therefore also bad for
>us.  Instead, making healthy food with  fresh ingredients will do al lot
>for your health and at the same time build a strong resistance so you can
>handle the bugs when they come.
>So far my opinion.
>Greetings to all,
>Marie Renders
>Co-housing West Brabant, Belgium (forming)
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racheli [at] sonoracohousing.com (Racheli Gai)
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