-Caveat Lector-
The Cattle Rancher Who
Won't Eat Meat
By Howard Lyman
www.madcowboy.com
12-20-00
Rendering is a $2.4 billion-a-year industry,
processing forty(40) Billion pounds of dead animals
a year in the U.S.
In addition to farm animals, is euthanized pets -the
six or seven Million dogs and cats that are killed in
animal shelters every year.
When the gruesome mix is ground and
steam-cooked together, the lighter, fatty material
floating to the top is used for Cosmetics, Lubricants,
Soaps, Candles, and Waxes.
The heavier protein material including a quarter of
which consists of fecal material is dried into powder.
The powder is used as an additive to almost ALL
Pet food as well as to Livestock feed. Farmers call it
"protein concentrates."
If you are a Meat eater, it is the food of your food .
The Plain Truth From The Cattlerancher Who Won't
Eat Meat
By Howard Lyman with Glen Merzer
I am a fourth-generation dairy farmer and cattle
rancher. I grew up on a dairy farm in Montana, & I
ran a feedlot operation there for 20 years. I know
firsthand how cattle are raised and how meat is
produced in this country. Today I am president of
the International Vegetarian Union.
Sure, I used to enjoy my steaks as much as the next
guy. But if you knew what I know about what goes
into them and what they can do to you, you'd
probably be a vegetarian like me. And believe it or
not, as a pure vegetarian now who consumes no
animal products at all, I can tell you that these days I
enjoy eating more than ever.
If you're a meat-eater in America, you have a right to
know that you have something in common with most
of the cows you've eaten. They've eaten meat, too.
When a cow is slaughtered, about half of it by
weight is not eaten by humans: the intestines and
their contents, the head, hooves, and horns, as well
as bones and blood. These are dumped into giant
grinders at rendering plants, as are the entire
bodies of cows and other farm animals known to be
diseased. Rendering is a $2.4 billion-a-year
industry, processing forty billion pounds of dead
animals a year. There is simply no such thing in
America as an animal too ravaged by disease, too
cancerous, or too putrid to be welcomed by the
embracing arms of the renderer.
Another staple of the renderer's diet, in addition to
farm animals, is euthanized pets-the six or seven
million dogs and cats that are killed in animal
shelters every year. The city of Los Angeles alone,
for example, sends some two hundred tons of
euthanized cats and dogs to a rendering plant every
month. Added to the blend are the euthanized catch
of animal control agencies, and roadkill. (Roadkill is
not collected daily, and in the summer, the better
roadkill collection crews can generally smell it
before they can see it.)
When the gruesome mix is ground and
steam-cooked, the lighter, fatty material floating to
the top gets refined for use in such products as
cosmetics, lubricants, soaps, candles, and waxes.
The heavier protein material is dried and pulverized
into a brown powder-about a quarter of which
consists of fecal material. The powder is used as an
additive to almost ALL pet food as well as to
livestock feed. Farmers call it "protein
concentrates." In 1995, five million tons of
processed slaughterhouse leftovers were sold for
animal feed in the United States. I used to feed tons
of the stuff to my own livestock. It never concerned
me that I was feeding cattle to cattle.
In August 1997, in response to growing concern
about the spread of bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (or Mad Cow disease), the FDA
issued a new regulation that bans the feeding of
ruminant protein (protein from cud-chewing animals)
to ruminants; therefore, to the extent that the
regulation is actually enforced, cattle are no longer
quite the cannibals that we had made them into.
They are no longer eating solid parts of other cattle,
or sheep, or goats.
They still munch, however, on ground-up dead
horses, dogs, cats, pigs, chickens, and turkeys, as
well as blood and fecal matter of their own species
and that of chickens. About 75 percent of the ninety
million beef cattle in America are routinely given
feed that has been "enriched" with rendered animal
parts. The use of animal excrement in feed is
common as well, as livestock operators have found
it to be an efficient way of disposing of a portion of
the 1.6 million tons of livestock wastes generated
annually by their industry.
In Arkansas, for example, the average farm feeds
over fifty tons of chicken litter to cattle every year.
One Arkansas cattle farmer was quoted in U.S.
News & World Report as having recently purchased
745 tons of litter collected from the floors of local
chicken-raising operations. After mixing it with small
amounts of soybean bran, he then feeds it to his
eight hundred head of cattle, making them, in his
words, "FAT AS BUTTERBALLS." He explained, "If I
didn't have chicken litter, I'd have to sell half my
heard. Other feeds are too expensive." If you are a
meat-eater, understand that this is the food of your
food.
We don't know all there is to know about the extent
to which the consumption of diseased or unhealthy
animals causes diseases in humans, but we do
know that some diseases-rabies, for example-are
transmitted from the host animal to humans. We
know that the common food poisonings brought on
by such organisms as the prevalent E. Coli bacteria,
which results from fecal contamination of food,
causes the death of nine thousand Americans a
year and that about 80 percent of food poisonings
come from tainted meat. And now we can also be
virtually certain, from the tragedy that has already
afflicted Britain, that Mad Cow disease can "jump
species" and give rise to a new variant of the
always fatal, brain-wasting Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease in humans.
For all too many humans, the first decision they
consciously make about their health is the stark one
between by-pass surgery and angioplasty, or
between chemotherapy and radiation. In reality,
however, we knowingly make choices every day
that can either lead us toward these grim options, or
else toward happier ones. We do so, of course,
every time we decide what fuel to put in our bodies.
To make our choices informed ones, we have to
start with the facts.
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"It would be difficult to conceive of any topic of
discussion that could be of greater concern and
interest to all Americans than the safety of the food
that they eat." -- Judge Mary Lou Robinson Texas
Beef Group v. Oprah Winfrey & Howard Lyman
(1998)
For over 200 hundred years, our country's legal
systems have refused to recognize "product libel."
People can maliciously libel a human being and be
required to pay damages; but not inanimate
products such as Corvairs, Pinto fuel tanks,
asbestos, the Dalkon Shield, fruits, vegetables and
meat products. Robust debate and criticism have
turned surmises and suspicions and anathemas into
discoveries or recognition of facts and truths. One
has only to look back at our history and see how the
dissenters of the past --criticizing tobacco, coal
dust, useless over-the-counter drugs and a variety
of health-damaging food additives and pesticides --
have been proven right again and again.
Now, it seems, CORPORATIONS want to do what
King George III, foreign dictators and bad domestic
political bosses were unable to do -- shut up the
American people. The realistic objective of the
frivolous "veggie-libel" statutes and lawsuits is not
money; it is to send a chilling message to millions of
people that they better keep their opinions to
themselves. -- Ralph Nader 4/29/98
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