RE: Mad cow madness: USDA lies and the coming collapse of the U.S. beef

[Guest guest]

RE: Mad cow madness: USDA lies and the coming collapse of the U.S. beef

industry I used to be a total carnivore, however I have been around the US feed

industry and seen animals that should be composted, not turned into animal feed

used as material to be fed to the animals we rely on as our food supply. There

is in my opinion no reason a herbivore should be eating meat anyway, except that

the meat industry wants to feed them high protein food to make them grow

quicker. I also have a serious problem with using hormones and keeping them in

pens so crowed that they must be fed antibiotics to keep them alive. What are we

going to do when we have fed so many antibiotics to animals that the bacteria

that cause disease have become immune to them? This is just a plain foolish way

to raise food. Let alone the health concerns it raises. Unfortunately, chickens

or hogs are no better in the way they are raised. Chickens are raised in cages

so small they can not even turn around in them. One set of cages frequently is

directly over the next and the feces drop onto the bird, his food and water of

his neighbor below. They too are raised with hormones and antibiotics to keep

them alive and grow them as fast as possible. I saw recent report that showed

90% of all of the eggs they tested had salmonella at low levels in them, so if

you let them sit in a warm environment they become toxic. It is disgusting! Ever

wonder why a Banquet chicken comes to you with the bones broken in odd ways?

That happens because the doors of the cages they grow up in are too small for

the chicken to be removed through them once grown, you have to breaking their

bones to remove them from the cages. I have done the work myself and found it

unnecessarily cruel and foolish. I grew up on a farm and we never would have

treated out animals in such a way. Not only is it cruel to the animal, but how

healthy can it be to eat an animal that must be supported by such artificial

means? Now don’t think I am squeamish. I hunt, fish and grew up raising and

killing nearly everything I ate. I have no problem killing and dressing my own

food. I also have always hunted with mutts because if they don’t hunt properly I

would shoot and bury them. Then get another to train. I just do not see any

reason to be unnecessarily cruel to any animal, (although I do not feel it is

unnecessarily cruel to shoot an animal in the head to butcher or dispose of it,

as opposed to turning it loose and letting it fend for it’s self. My family shot

many a dog or cat some slob dropped off by our farm thinking we would take it

in. We had animal we trained, took care of and raised to do particular jobs. We

in no way wanted their trash causing us problems, eating our chickens or chasing

our cows, etc. If you have a dog or cat you do not want to have, find the

courage to locate it a decent home, have it put to sleep or shoot the damn thing

yourself. NEVER EVER DROP IT OFF IN THE COUNTRY AS I ASSURE YOU MOST FARMERS

WILL KILL IT AS BEST THEY CAN RATHER THAN DEAL WITH YOUR GARBAGE. It is not).

Also, I do not feel that eating an animal raised under unhealthy conditions

could possibly healthy or as nutritionious as eating an animal raised under low

stress, healthy conditions on decent feed. I currently eat very little meat and

no eggs or milk. The meat I do eat is raised by a friend I trust, who raises the

meat he feeds his own family. He is aware of the nasty things the animal feed

industry is up to and raises his own hay and grain as well as range feeds his

animals like we did when I was a kid and we raised our own meat. Unless the food

industry cleans up it’s act I will continue avoiding their products and recomend

others do the same. If they loose enough buisness they will clean up their act,

but as long as they can get away with the bullshit they are currently doing,

they will continue. It's all about the all mighty dollar to them! Mark, grgeek

(Grand Rapids GEEK)