More Mad Cows

So the media announced the 140+ billion pound recall of beef to the public. Does it surprise anyone that I knew about a week, maybe even a few weeks before it was officially announced?

Don't trust the FDA to protect you from unsafe food. The only reason this was revealed was because of an undercover operation from an "outsider." The Humane Society and organizations such as PETA finds things like this all the time. Oddly enough the government ran FDA does not. Why? They don't care! They care about money and money alone. It doesn't matter school children were being fed sick and diseased beef, but that it was being paid for.

The fact that it took this long to warn the public and recall the meat is shocking enough. If you were shocked by the videos, it isn't an isolated incident. The common "acceptable" practices of cattle raising is almost equally as cruel and disgusting.

If the torture, or the saturated fat and cholesterol content doesn't bother you, your risk of contracting serious disease such as e-coli, salmonella, and mad cow disease should.

If there is one thing I am learning is vital to all of us, it's that you should find your news from sources outside of the "unbiased" mainstream... that's a whole story in itself though.

All animals, yes - even cows, deserve respect. Look at the picture above, they are affectionate, they do have feelings, and they do express fear and pain. How can we allow them to be shocked, kicked, and shoved around by fork lifts for the sake of cheap beef? When will these awful practices finally end?

If you don't have enough reasons to love President Bush...

There was another case of mad cow disease and how does our country respond? In the interest of saving money, of course!

US on Mad Cow: Don't Test All Cattle http://buzzflash.net/%20story.php?id=33366

"The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease. The Agriculture Department tests less than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. But Kansas-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef wants to test all of its cows. Larger meat companies feared that move because, if Creekstone tested its meat and advertised it as safe, they might have to perform the expensive test, too."

Why would they want to fight to have more illnesses in our country?

I love my "veggie" hamburger! I made the meat-loving boyfriend a taco with it the other night and he swallowed it whole! It microwaves in 1 1/2 minutes and there's no nasty grease to drain. Give it a try, it's a lot safer!

Don't eat the poor cows!