Ot: Usda Recalls Beef

[jasonh]

lol

 

[Frizz]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11897117#post11897117 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by random_ryan
I only eat meat that is kosher. I am kinda upset with the school system for feeding my kids meat that came from this cow slatter house. very very crule. if anyone has noticed I am an animal lover. I do eat meat beef, fish, chicken, and turkey. If these animals are not taken care of our food chain and food values come to and end. and to be quite frank about this issue. I feel the owners and the people who work there should be put through the torment that these wonderful animals were put through. this is very very disturbing. there's a right way and a wrong way to treat people and animals. as far as getting a cow from the fair it would cost me way to much becouse I would want it to be kosher. I would be interested in this if it was cost effective for me.

Ryan, if your meat is coming from the grocery store, it is no different than the meat going to these schools. Those horrible practices are the norm in this country. Poultry is crammed in large indoor facilities & fed a poor diet geared toward fast growth. Their beaks are seared off so that they will not cannabalize one another from the stress. Same with the eggs that you buy. The layers are bred for high egg production & malnourished. This creates poor quality eggs with thin shells 7 is the true reason that salmonilla is an issue in undercooked eggs.

Cattle are shipped to feed lots at a particular age & fed a completely unnatural diet of primarily corn (raised on huge monocultured farms with plenty of chemicals). This literally makes them sick while it makes them fat. As they are being fattened they are knee deep in their own feces until being shipped off again to the slaughter houses. Typical slaughter houses kill about 400 per HOUR. Corn is an unnatural diet for cattle and upsets their digestive tract. It causes them to have constant diarrhea (& extreme flatulance which is quite literally the major contributor of methane to our atmosphere these days) and it creates a pH in their stomachs that they are not built to handle,making them extremely succeptable to all sorts of pathogens that they would not normally be getting. In order to keep them from getting sick enough to die they are given antibiotics as part of the routine. This is one of the primary reasons that we have so many drug resistant pathogens these days.
The cruelty with downed animals that you found out about is not at all unusual but is widely overlooked & seldom witnessed by outsiders.
Dairy cattle are kept in overcrowded, indoor barns also. Pig farms are the worst.
Buying commercially raised organic meat & dairy products is a better way to go but it still supports these irresponsible practices. Don't be fooled into thinking otherwise just because the label makes certain claims. Those lables also imply a lot of things that they do not actually practice.
Eating kosher does not insure that your meat properly raised or that the animals were treated humanely during their lifetimes.
The family farm has long ago been forclosed on & taken over by mega corporations. They rely on us not having any connections to our food source beyond the grocery store in order to continue.
The school is not the bad guy here. Every time you buy a piece of meat from your local supermarket or fast food restaurant you are supporting this.
The only way not to support it is to educate yourself & begin buying your family's food directly from the very few small ranchers who are stubborn enough to still do things right. Meanwhile, the government, under pressure from large agribusiness is working hard to put the few remaining family farms out of business.
Again, as a starting point to educating yourself about where our food really comes from, I urge you to read "The Omnivore's Dilema". The more people become educated, the more they will be outraged and change the way they eat & feed their families. Changing our buying habits is the only real way to fight the industrialized food chain & bring back responsible farming practices.
Frizz

 

[Frizz]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11897590#post11897590 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Veganman

Disgusting.

Sad.

All of this could be avoided if everyone went Vegan.


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All of this and more could be avoided if farmers & ranchers practiced good land stewardship & proper animal husbandry. Farming is too complex to be done properly on an industrial scale. Simply becoming vegan does not address the fundamental problems with modern agricultural practices in any meaningful way whatsoever. One can choose not to use animal products without understanding or addressing any of the complexities of land stewardship.
This will be the last that I am going to say about the subject here though because Reef Central really isn't the right forum for me to rant about either the evil, greedy military industrial complex or the evil, greedy slime that are in control of the large animal rights organizations.
Frizz
Frizz

 

[buffalobunch]

Might be something that everyone is interested in. I am a member of co-op. A lady orders organic food- milk, veggies, eggs, beef, chicken etc and you pick it up at her house. She is located at Bell Rd and 39th Ave. It's $20 to be a member and you get a list every other week of what's available. I think there are other groups in the valley depending on where you live and you can even start your own co-op. Here is the link
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/northvalleyorganics/