After reading the absolutely sickening story of the largest beef recall in history, and the cruelty that led the Humane Society to intervene, I’ve added a new category to my blogroll.
It’s called Sources. It lists web sites that will help you find meat and other products from animals raised in humane conditions, fed on pasture rather than grains or other animals, and allowed to move freely.
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Isn’t it interesting too that this meat is being downplayed in regard to it causing illness(as in “no reported illness”)?
Those animals looked just line the ones I’ve seen in BBC video of beef with “mad cow” disease. I wonder how many people realize that if you eat “mad cow” beef it doesn’t show up immediately….it can take years….and there is no cure….just terrible suffering and death.
How many of the school children who ingested this beef will later die of “mad cow” disease? Time will tell. I imagine if our gov’t finds out those beef were infected, they won’t let the public know for fear of a “panic”.
The reality is they are more concerned about the beef industry and the effect on our economy if it should come crashing down due to fear of mad cow.
My 77 year old mother quit eating beef when the first reports of mad cow came out. She said she did not trust our government to protect us. I think this confirms that her fears are valid.
We only eat organic beef, but I’m not sure that we are safe. I plan to no longer eat beef period.
Do you have any concerns or information regarding mad cow?
Comment by Dinah Soar — February 19, 2008 @ 8:56 am |
I was reading the article in your link and noted this:
” the officials noted that while mad cow disease was extremely rare, the brains and spinal cords from the animals — the area most likely to harbor the disease — would not have entered the human food chain.”
The problem is that often those parts of meat (“most likely to harbor the disease”) are often added to ground beef…they are ground up into the mixture and we are none the wiser.
Perhaps avoiding ground beef and the aforementioned parts would offer some measure of protection.
But the meat recalled was ground beef, and I wouldn’t be surprised at all to find that it included the offal.
Comment by Dinah Soar — February 19, 2008 @ 9:03 am |
You can add to your Sources List:
LocalHarvest.org
…a huge nation-wide listing of organic resources!
Comment by Regina Wilshire — February 19, 2008 @ 9:45 am |