http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2825079Oh my.
This won't go over good here in the spinal column of America.
donsu (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-06-08 11:34 AM
Original message
are you still sure you want to eat beef?
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/04/6839 /
Viewers Cringe at Slaughter Video While USDA Spins (mad cow)
You wouldn’t think you could “spin†a video that shows slaughterhouse workers electric shocking downer cows, “water boarding†them, jabbing their eyes with herding paddles and ramming them with forklift blades while they squeal in pain, posted at www.hsus.org, but USDA is trying.
Less than two years after diners in 11 restaurants in nine California counties ate meat from the first US mad cow according to the San Francisco Chronicle, newly appointed US agriculture secretary Mike Johanns who left last year vowed to reverse the ban on downer cattle.
A year into Johanns’ tenure, the Houston Chronicle reported 29 downers untested for mad cow got into in the food supply because inspectors “did not believe that they had the authority†to go into the animals’ pens.
Meat executives tried to claim the animals suffered injury after passing inspection–which would make slaughter legal–but investigators found no records of injuries after arrival for 20 of the downers that ended up on US dinner plates.
There’s also the fact that no one has gotten sick yet, say FSIS officials, deliberately confusing bacteria like e Coli and salmonella which cause treatable conditions that make you sick right away and can be cooked out of food with the mad cow prion which is an untreatable replicating protein that is virtually indestructible and manifests years later.
Then there’s the fact that the downers in the video aren’t battered from unremitting abuse on mega dairy farms which created mad cow disease by feeding dead cows to live ones–a cheap and plentiful protein for rBGH frenzied metabolisms–they just have broken legs and hips from unfortunate accidents, says Peterson.
So well, restaurants who got the meat won’t be notified says Peterson, because, “I have a lot of information from this plant both on the obviously the inspectional side but also plant records…that all point to a singular conclusion that the product coming out of the plant not only meets regulatory requirements but is safe and wholesome.â€
We believe their meat is safe because we believe their meat is safe.
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you want to bet the neo cons have their own herds of clean, healthy beef to eat?
I dunno.
L1A1Rocker (168 posts) Wed Feb-06-08 11:43 AM
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1. Am I still sure I want to eat beef?
Yep!
Then the pro-smoking and anti-smoking primitives squibble-squabble for a bit, after which the bonfire resumes blazing.
mainegreen (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-06-08 11:46 AM
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3. Sure.
I buy beef from a local guy who lets his cows roam the field eating grass. He breeds his own cattle, and his cattle are butchered buy a local guy up the coast. It's all small scale, and sustainable.
It's also a bit more expensive that store bought beef.
wienerdoggie (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-06-08 11:57 AM
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4. Mike Johanns, my next Senator? What an asshole.
The Nebraska hot dog primitive is just put out, because the Democrats here have to run an (R) for the U.S. Senate seat, against Michael Johanns, because the Democrats couldn't find anybody else.
Excresence happens.
winter999 (280 posts) Wed Feb-06-08 12:00 PM
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5. How many hundreds of millions of US citizens eat beef and not one case? Seems safer than flying to me. As far as your bet, I'll take you up on that.
donsu (1000+ posts) Wed Feb-06-08 12:07 PM
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8. there are cases - they call it Alzheimer's and/or give it other names
DadOf2LittleAngels (635 posts) Wed Feb-06-08 02:19 PM
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30. Im sorry this must be the part where you post some kind of scientific proof that beef causes Alzheimer's... (and not hormones and crap that those of us who buy organically dont get)
And then, oh my, a vegan primitive posts something that HAS to be
the longest post, ever, posted on Skins's island. It's miles and miles long. It makes the Bostonian Drunkard look like the
Reader's Digest.
Man, that's a whopper, an elephantine whale, of a post.
I kid you not, but I will spare the reader.
That is one Monster post there.
The rest of the bonfire, minus this simply enormous post by the vegan primitive, shows the primitives being pretty much evenly-split, such as in the Democrats' current dilemma, between the pro-beef primitives and the anti-beef primitives.
