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THE CATTLE RANCHER WHO WON'T EAT MEAT

 

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 .

 

 

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)

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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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