Buy fresh foods instead of frozen (takes energy to freeze them, energy to store them, energy to cook them)
This is so wrong. It’s like some reoccuring nightmare which you can’t wake up from. Why are some people so stupid? Why can’t people get it through their heads that this is wrong, evil, and debauched? Is greed for profit what makes things like this happen?
Contaminated feed ingredients have been shipped to 9 states. Big deal you say? What’s the panic? Not only did the feed and suppliments contain ground up cattle remains, but it was destined for dairy cattle. Who knows what gets passes on through milk. . . .? This feed contamination is in violation of a 1997 ban on including cattle remains in animal feed to help prevent BSE, or Mad Cow.
This is one more example that arrogance and stupidity go hand in hand. "It would never happen to us. . .so let’s keep doing it. . . .until we’re caught. . . ."
Consumers need to demand that the USDA start testing every slaughtered beef animal–cow, steer or bull–for BSE. They need to stop testing only "downer" cattle and impliment a proactive stance against industry’s abuse of our trust. And they need to do it now, and not blind or distract us with a smoke and mirrors plan like the National Animals Identification System.
On the flip side American Consumers need to wake up and fuel the Grass Fed Revolution! We need to stop eating meats fattened on Corn and grain–which they can’t metabolize and so need all kinds of antibioltics and suppliments. We need to get off the cheap food bus which drives the industry to cut corners and litterally feed the animals we eat shit. And we need to demand easier access to locally produced meats which can be monitored more carefully.
If beef it truely what’s for dinner, than it had better be safe, healthy, diease free and sustainable. And in that picture there is no place for feed lots, manure lagoons, grain mills, antibiotics, insecticides, worming dredes, and BSE.
Somewhere along the way the American Industrial Complex decided it had too much of waste product and it had to get rid of it at a profit–hence we have fertilizers no one really needs. Then came excess corn to soak up the fertilizers so they polluted the earth only slightly less. Then, what to do with so much corn? Feed it to animals–that’ll get rid of it. Now we have a host of problems, including more fertilizer waste–90 pounds per animal per day–and an abundance of diseases and contamination issues..
Grass fed meats have none of these problems. No grains necessary. No fertilizers necessary–the animals provide all that’s needed. Leaner, healthier meat, more fitting an America much in need of dietary reform. And smaller herds rasied locally, kept away from disease causing feed lots, and massive slaughterhouses breeding superbugs .
Is this a fiction, or a myth? I think not. It can happen. Vote with your wallet. Speak out against infractions like this contaminated feed issue. Help stop the NAIS–which favors a meat industry out of control at the peril of small, grass-fed, healthy herds. And become a part of the Grass Fed Revolution–all pigs, chickens, cattle, sheep and goats welcome–it’s healthier for us and for the planet.
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