CONTEMPORARY Issue No. 1 | Page 15

CONTEMPORARY by FOOD MATTERS Author: James Colquhoun Wellbeing HEALTH: The health impact of eating factory-farm animal products is starting tocome to light more and more. Not only do these products often contain antibiotics and hormones, they are also high in omega 9 and omega 6 fatty acids when incomparison to omega 3 fatty acids. It has been shown that this fatty acid ratio (highomega 9 and low omega 3) can cause inflammation in the body and systemic inflammation can lead to all sorts of chronic degenerative disease from heart conditions, to cancer, etc.