USDA Refuses to Recall Comingled Meat That Contains Beef from Westland Plant D

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Originally published February 22 2008

USDA Refuses to Recall " Comingled " Meat That Contains Beef from Westland

Plant Downer Cows

_http://www.naturalnews.com/022703.html_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/022703.html)

 

by Mike Adams

 

(NaturalNews) Following the unprecedented recall of 143 million pounds of

beef that was potentially contaminated with mad cow disease, the USDA has

decided that it's okay for children and consumer to eat that beef as long as it

is

comingled with beef from other cows. This startling decision appeared in a

USDA memo reported in the Wall Street Journal, which stated:

 

" If a processor or grinder has records demonstrating that products were

produced using less than 100% of recalled Westland meat for the meat component,

then there is no need...to retrieve that 'commingled' product. "

 

This statement from _the USDA_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/the_USDA.html)

reveals that the agency believes the recalled _beef_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/beef.html) is so dangerous that nobody should eat

it, but it's safe enough

to eat alongside beef from other cows. This is a curious -- if not downright

laughable -- stance to take on public safety. If the meat is potentially

contaminated with _mad cow disease_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/mad_cow_disease.html) (which is the whole reason

why it was recalled in the first place),

then mixing _mad cow_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/mad_cow.html)

disease-contaminated meat with non-contaminated meat does not reduce the

potential danger of

the " commingled " meat in any way whatsoever.

 

Video: See the exclusive video clip on Factory Farms and Slaughterhouse

Cruelty at

_http://www.NaturalNews.com/022702.html_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/022702.html)

 

 

_USDA_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/USDA.html) nonsense and the betrayal of

the public

How does adding another cow's meat to the downer cow's meat make the downer

cow's meat any safer? It doesn't, of course, but the USDA isn't really

interested in _consumer safety_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/consumer_safety.html) .

That's why they've issued this statement that means a meat packing company

can use 99% of its beef from mad cow disease " downer " cows, and 1% of its beef

from healthy cows, and it's all declared " safe " by the USDA with no need to

recall the beef!

 

Now you can see why I consider the USDA to be such a joke. Much like the

FDA, the USDA is primarily focused on protecting the profits of the industry it

claims to regulate. What's important to the USDA is promoting beef, not

protecting the public, and that's exactly why you also see these intentional

delays in the USDA issuing beef recalls. These delays are specifically designed

to

limit the financial losses associated with beef recalls by making sure most

of the meat is already eaten by consumers before the recall is issued.

 

It's yet another campaign of extreme incompetence -- or perhaps fraud -- by

the USDA, an organization that believes too much in promoting milk and beef

products that it has insisted for decades that all Americans eat more beef and

drink more milk. That's the whole point behind the USDA's laughable food

guide pyramid -- a marketing document designed to fatten up the population by

telling consumers to eat and drink more animal products, regardless of the

health consequences. Read Food Politics by Marion Nestle to get the full story

on

the fraud behind the USDA's food guide pyramid.

 

Better yet, download my free Honest Food Guide (_www.HonestFoodGuide.org_

(http://www.honestfoodguide.org/) ) - a replacement for the USDA's ridiculous

food guide pyramid. The _Honest Food Guide_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/Honest_Food_Guide.html) has been downloaded over

one million times, and it tells

the truth about foods that enhance health vs. foods that destroy health. Beef,

milk and other animal products are in the " destroys health " category, and

that's even when they aren't contaminated!

 

 

_America_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/America.html) faces the facts on

animal cruelty and the criminal _beef industry_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/beef_industry.html)

What's especially notable in all this talk about beef _slaughterhouses_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/slaughterhouses.html) (which was only made

possible

by the Humane Society's secret video, by the way) is that for the first time,

Americans are having to face up to the fact that they're eating meat that is

cruelly extracted from the bodies of cows using torturous, criminal processes

that expose these cows to excruciating pain.

 

For as long as I can remember, Americans have simply pretented to not know

where their meat really came from. They would buy and eat meat products under

the hallucination that somehow all this meat was extracted from cows without

any sort of harm or pain. They were kidding themselves, of course, but

through clever beef marketing and slaughterhouse secrecy, the industry was able

to

hide the truth about its criminal activities for many decades.

 

But now, all of a sudden the discussion about _cruelty_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/cruelty.html) to cows and slaughterhouse practices

is front page

news. All of a sudden Americans are being forced to look in the mirror and

realize what kind of industry they're supporting. Of course, many consumers

just

blame the slaughterhouse. " It's THEIR fault! " they say, as if their own

purchasing of that very same beef had nothing to do with it. The disconnect

works

like this: " The slaughtering of cows is BAD, and it's THEIR fault, but the

eating of the beef we buy is just fine, no problem! " In this way, consumers

fail

to connect their own purchasing demand with the cruel treatment of cows in

factory farms and slaughterhouses across America and around the world.

 

When it comes to food, Americans don't really want to know where it comes

from. They'd rather not think about or talk about it. They hold their noses

when they swallow, and they talk about comedy TV, or _politics_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/politics.html) or sports... anything to take their

minds off the

truth hidden in the steak they're swallowing for dinner. Nobody dares

acknowledge the truth about what they're eating: Angry flesh torn from the

bodies of

screaming, suffering cows who are exploited and killed by profit-hungry

slaughterhouse owners who care nothing about other living creatures.

 

The beef industry exemplifies everything that's wrong with America today:

Extreme greed, the exploitation of living beings for profit, a shocking lack of

compassion, non-stop pollution, environmental destruction and the complete

disregard of consumer safety.

 

Watch the video: See the exclusive video clip on Factory Farms and

Slaughterhouse Cruelty at _http://www.NaturalNews.com/022702.html_

(http://www.naturalnews.com/022702.html)

 

If you eat _red meat_ (http://www.naturalnews.com/red_meat.html) from

factory-farmed cows, you are part of the problem. You are directly supporting

the

destruction of the environment and the torture and killing of cows. If you

eat meat from factory-farmed cows, you are willfully participating in a system

of extreme evil that operates without ethics and without any concern for

living creatures or the natural environment.

 

There is no such thing as " cruelty-free " meat. All meat is taken from the

carcass of an animal that once breathed, lived, observed and experienced. When

you consider your dietary choices, think carefully about what practices you

wish to promote and what businesses you wish to see succeed.

 

The best way to end cruelty to cows is to stop buying beef. Eat no more red

meat. That includes meat from cows and pigs. If you must eat animal meat,

consider switching to chickens and fish. There is still cruelty in those

industries, no doubt, but the experiences of fish are much lower in

intelligence

than those of a cow, which is an intelligent mammal.

 

Better yet, eat quinoa, which is a complete protein containing all eight

essential amino acids. Or supplement your protein from free-range eggs,

spirulina or broccoli juice. You can get all the protein you need from plants

by

juicing them and drinking the juice. (Cooking destroys about half the protein

content of plants, so eat them raw to get your protein.) There is absolutely no

requirement for meat in the human diet. Consumers only eat meat because they

were trained to do so by their parents. In the long run, that practice is

entirely unsustainable, and the future of humanity depends on switching to a

primarily plant-based diet.

 

Remember: Boycott red meat and you'll help end cruelty to cows. It's as

simple as this: If consumers stop buying red meat, slaughterhouses will stop

killing cows!

 

Be part of the solution. End cruelty to cows. Stop eating red meat (and save

yourself from mad cow disease at the same time).

 

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