From: Dave Smith <[email protected]> >> If you think things are bad now, you really should have been >> around for the 1900s. Today, the government allows vanishingly >> small amount of rat feces in food. That's still better than >> things a hundred years ago when your Durham's Pure Leaf Lard >> might have contained boiled human remains. > > > Yeah, it's much better now. Today, your meat is soaked in > ammonia before it gets to the grocery store. That way, there's > no bacteria in it. Phew. Oh, and the cows are pumped with > antibiotics to keep them alive long enough to slaughter them. > Otherwise, they would die months too early due to the knee-deep > manure they live in and their high corn diet. And since > their legs are barely strong enough to hold up their > artificially fattened bodies, they spend much of their time > lying in the crap. Sweet sweet beef. I had a burger yesterday, > and it was delicious. > > Are things really better now? Or just different? Have we traded > rat droppings and disease for harmful chemicals and obesity?
The thing that made it difficult for me to eat beef (not impossible--I still enjoy stew and hamburgers--but I had to ignore what I was eating) was reading how the USDF not only approved of, but insisted that, cows should be fed chicken manure. One person who owned a slaughterhouse said he may have to quit, because he couldn't stand how the slaughtered beef smelled like the chicken manure they were being fed. ____________________________________________________________ Penny Stock Jumping 2000% Sign up to the #1 voted penny stock newsletter for free today! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/4bc5e01eb973d25854ast06vuc /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
