Recently bought by Tyson Foods charged with smuggling 2,000 illegal Guatemalan workers across the Mexico border to work in its slaughterhouses in 2001?
(Slaughterhouse work is so aversive, inmates released from prisons to work in the Smithfield Foods' Tar Heel plants preferred prison and quit, wrote the New York Times.)
Big food doesn't want you to know. Having you-know-what in the meat is bad enough--but showing kicking cows hanging upside down on the kill floor, cows who clearly don't want to die can really kill your appetite.
According to PETA, we eat too much meat, and that is obviously true. We can easily reduce our diet to a fraction of meat and the world would be a better place.
We would save fossil fuel, water and land as well as our health.
Think about the hundreds of Africans who starve to death and we realize we should be giving our food away instead of destroying the planet.
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Barker (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 111 comments)
on Sunday, October 7, 2007 at 5:59:14 PM
The United States Government which is suppose to protect its Citizens, allows the USDA to ban all companies from testing beef for BSE.
Is this protecting the Citizens? Help make the Government represent and protect the people.
If you want Congress to Represent YOU instead of Special Interests, Vote YES for the Citizen Amendments. Get your FREE copy at www.citizenamendments.org
Also Checkout the National Initiative for Democracy and then vote on it. Its will give the people the right to a National Initiative.
Eating meat is dangerous for everyone and for Planet Earth not to mention the poor cows. Slaughterhouses should be shut down. People Wake Up! Stop eating meat. No US laws will provide meat eating safety.
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Aimee (0 articles, 2 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 113 comments)
on Monday, October 8, 2007 at 7:01:37 AM
