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Well...I am having such a hard time finding organic meat...even hormine and antibiotic free meat. Can eating regular meat half of the time undo the good you do when you eat good meat, eggs, chicken? So frustrated. Dr. Brizman told me to just be extra careful with the veggies and fruit we eat the skins of, but since she wants us to eat meat every meal I worry about this. PLus it's so expensive. Do you all eat organic all the time?
I will write about how I have recovered from my bladder later on tonight. I know how important success stories are...I used to look for them everywhere all the time.
maryjoe
Thank you Mimi for all the wonderful info.
I eat organic and grass fed
I eat organic and grass fed all the time. It is expensive, but IMO, grass fed is (pardon the pun) a COMPLETELY different animal than corn-fed meat. The long term affects of eating commercial meat v. organic and grass fed means high risk of heart disease and other illnesses. Having said that, I read somewhere that Dr. B thinks you can heal fine if you are eating non-organic meats. I just personally made the switch to grass-fed many years ago, before IC, and I am not going back.
Maryjoe, where do you live? Can you buy direct from a farm? Sometimes they have sharing programs where you can buy part of a cow (just enough that you have room in your freezer) and this can be very economical. If you can't find a local farm, you can do a google search and buy direct from a farm in another state and have it shipped. I have a local, grass-fed butcher. He is pricey but I often/mostly buy the ground beef, so it is pretty economical when you buy the cheaper cuts.
USwellnessmeats.com ships all of their grass-fed meat around the country. If you buy the cheaper cuts it is more reasonable.
I realize grass-fed organic is pricey but since we are eating it daily, I think it is a financial priority over some other things we buy (besides produce like Dr. B says)
If you go to the Evironmental Working Group site you can find the dirty dozen list for which produce to avoid if not organic, but they also have list of 15 kinds of produce that are perfectly safe to buy NON organic, so that might save you some money. Avocados, for example, are fine to buy non-organic.
The list is called the dirty dozen and clean 15:
http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/
If we don't excel at health, the only other option is disease.
You can still recover if you
You can still recover if you do not eat organic. I would say I only ate organic meat about 20-30% of the time and mostly just ate antibiotic/hormone free or regular meat. When I had the chance to eat grass fed organic meat I DID get a bigger payout in terms of healing. In fact, when I was flaring organic beef almost always gave me some releif. I made meat and dairy a priority of organic when i could afford it and washed my fruits and veggies which were mostly conventional. I don't always beleive the labels of "organic" to be legit as it seems like its a selling point for some companies and maybe it does not always meet the standards of non- GMO. I do know I can taste the difference and life in the truly organic stuff. I have recently heard if its fruit and veggies and its got a 8 digit number code it is genetically modified. I do not have verification for this. I am thinking about looking into CSA's which are a kind of club through small organic farms where by you buy a season and you get a box of organic and seasonal veggies. Seems like you would save a ton of money doing it that way. Anybody go this route and have it work out well? Thanks!
This is a good route if you
This is a good route if you are able to eat a large variety because you get whatever is in season. If you are still limited in choices (ie: I only eat a few types of vegetables) it doesn't make sense,
I try to buy most of my meat directly from farmers. Second choice is Whole Foods, 3rd choice is trader Joes. I rarely ever buy straight up conventinal meat from the regular store. It tastes wrong to me.
As far as the cost, it really can be ahrd when one steak costs 18.00 a lob and one is on sale for 299 a lb. However, I have just stopped thinking that meat should be that cheap. I don't buy any pre packaged food (or very little) so I think I probably spend the same as most families even though I always buy the expensive meat.
A movie called Genetic
A movie called Genetic Roullette by Jeffrey M. Smith explains what is happening in the food industry and explains how GMO's affect us. It changed the way I looked at my food purchasing for me and my family.