Baby Politics vs. Systems of Noble Dictatorships

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International Baby Party

 

 

 

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The basis of law and thus economics and thus liberty etc. must originate with child welfare.

Yet the world market which is full of mutual dog-eat-dog cheaters are based on pleasing adults first. Simplistic proposal I know.

But the last century showed that as fast as the First world could educate their country's youth they also sent the best educated offto war along with the trappings of the best that technology could create, war after war, each country taking turns at bat.

A "Constitution for the Rights Human Babies" must be drafted--the same rights would extent to all Adults too--but the difference is that the unborn/the baby/teen/student are represented by 'Inalienable' Rights, not just as a consequential State mandated obligation to be protected by some adjunct agency.

 

The so-called noblesse of all historical Systems of economics are based of clans vying for titleship of other's work/sweat/tears and ownership natural resources.

 

The stewardship of the beasts of the earth regularly equate eating them, etc., etc.

Newborns should be announced & paraded & schooled as a 'little buddha' all.

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Bhaktajan

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Major Beef Recall Impacts Murray </ST1:PCounty, </ST1:P<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-comDalton</st1:City>, <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = " /><st1:place w:st="on">Gordon </ST1:PCounty </ST1:PSchool </st1:place>

<st1:place w:st="on"></st1:place>Submitted by Bethany Mowry on February 19, 2008 - 12:15pm. WDEF.COM

Local <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Georgia</st1:place></st1:country-region> school systems involved in the nation's largest beef recall wait on word to determine what to do with their meat supply.

The U-S-D-A put a hold on meat supplied from a <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State> plant after the release of shocking video featuring mistreatment of downer cattle.

32 <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Georgia</st1:place></st1:country-region> school systems received the potentially tainted beef from the slaughterhouse.

<ST1:PDalton </ST1:PCity </ST1:PSchools, <st1:City w:st="on">Murray</st1:City> and <st1:place w:st="on"><ST1:PGordon </ST1:PCounties </ST1:P</st1:place>are among them.

A nutritionist with the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Dalton</st1:place></st1:City> city school system tells News 12 once she receives a directive from the state, the school system will proceed with destroying the meat.

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<ST1:PWayne </ST1:PCounty </ST1:P(<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:place></st1:State>) Public Schools affected by meat recall

The Wayne County Public Schools system is on the list of school districts affected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's beef recall, but there is no cause for alarm, officials here say.

"Most likely there were products that were consumed, but we have been assured there's very minimal health risk," Ken Derksen, public information officer for the school system said this morning.

Derksen said there was likely "such a small amount" that parents need not worry.

Federal officials have also been reassuring, saying the beef posed little hazard to consumers and that no reports of illness have been made.

The recall came on the heels of the USDA's announcement of an ongoing investigation into Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Company, alleging that cattle did not receive complete and proper inspection. Nationwide, 143 million pounds of beef were recalled, with an estimated 126,000 pounds reportedly distributed in 25 districts across <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:place></st1:State>.

In addition to <ST1:PWayne </ST1:PCounty</ST1:P, neighboring Duplin, Lenoir, Greene, Sampson and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Johnston</st1:place></st1:City> counties were also on the list. Approximately half of the districts across the state had already served some of the meat in question, reports said, using it in such dishes as tacos, hot dog chili and spaghetti sauce.

Derksen said when the district learned of the recall, cafeteria workers at individual schools immediately began taking inventory of their stocks.

"We found very minimal amounts. Out of 33 schools, 12.6 cases of hot dog chili and 2.5 cases of taco meat that were purchased," he said

Products were immediately pulled from the cafeteria shelves, Derksen said.

"Right now I think they're being held, as the child nutrition department awaits final confirmation of what to do from the USDA," he said.

In the meantime, officials remain positive about the situation.

"I don't think that parents should worry," Derksen said. "Health experts have assured us that there's very little reason for concern. ...

"We're doing what we have been asked to do by pulling these (items) off the shelves."

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday ordered the recall of 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">California</st1:place></st1:State> slaughterhouse, the subject of an animal-abuse investigation, that provided meat to school lunch programs. It was the largest beef recall in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>, surpassing a 1999 ban of 35 million pounds of ready-to-eat meats. No illnesses have been linked to the newly recalled meat.Schoool meat

By Phyllis Moore

Published in News on February 19, 2008 01:57 PM

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Beef Over Cattle Abuse Video Escalates

Animal Rights Groups, Cattle Industry Spar As 143 Million Pounds Of Beef Is Recalled

<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">DENVER</st1:place></st1:City>, Feb. 19, 2008

(AP) The cattle industry and animal rights groups bickered over the treatment of beef destined for <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> dinner plates a day after secret video triggered the nation's largest meat recall.

Undercover video taken at the Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. of Chino, <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Calif.</st1:place></st1:State>, shows workers shocking, kicking and shoving debilitated cattle with forklifts, prompting the government to pull 143 million pounds of the company's beef.

Bo Reagan, vice president of research for the Colorado-based National Cattleman's Beef Association, said the videotaped incident was not indicative of how most slaughterhouses operate.

"The welfare of our animals - that's the heart and soul of our operations," Reagan said.

U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines mandate that an inspector must review sick or injured animals, called "downer" cattle, before they can be slaughtered, and that the 1958 Humane Slaughter Act sets strict rules for the humane treatment of animals.

"What happened in this case was that there were some animals that were harvested out of compliance," he said.

Federal regulations call for keeping downed cattle out of the food supply because they may pose a higher risk of contamination from E. coli, salmonella or mad cow disease since they typically wallow in feces and their immune systems are often weak.

Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO of the Humane Society of the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>, which videotaped the alleged abuse, said his organization chose to investigate the Westland/Hallmark plant at random, and said he was skeptical of the cattle industry's practices.

"I think this is the typical rhetorical and typical false assurances that we hear from the industry after glaring problems have been exposed," he said.

Pacelle said it's impossible to say whether the treatment depicted on the video is isolated, but stopped short of calling it widespread.

"I think we can't say for sure one way or another, but it's certainly a bad sign for the industry and the USDA to have been exposed for their failures in this single, random investigation," he said.

Agriculture officials estimate that about 37 million pounds of the recalled beef went to school programs, but they believe most of the meat probably has already been eaten.

"We don't know how much product is out there right now. We don't think there is a health hazard, but we do have to take this action," said Dr. Dick Raymond, USDA undersecretary for food safety.

Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, chairwoman of the House Agriculture, Food and Drug Administration Appropriations Subcommittee, called the video inhumane and said she was concerned it "demonstrates just how far our food safety system has collapsed."

DeLauro, D-Conn., has also called for an independent investigation into the government's ability to secure the safety of meat in the nation's schools.

Recalled meat is piling up at six <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Michigan</st1:place></st1:State> school districts. Grand Rapids Public Schools must throw out 10 tons of hamburger, while the Ann Arbor Public Schools has about 200 pounds of quarantined beef.

Some of the hamburger being recalled already was served to students in Portage Public Schools. "It was in our taco sauce and our spaghetti sauce," <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Portage</st1:place></st1:City> district food service manager Lance Gerry told the Kalamazoo Gazette. "We've been serving those products for a while."

USDA spokesman Keith Williams said his department has evidence that <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Westland</st1:place></st1:City> did not routinely contact its veterinarian when cattle became non-ambulatory after passing inspection, violating health regulations.

Williams said the recall was done primarily to revoke the USDA's seal of inspection for the meat - not because of the risk of illness.

"Everybody's going, 'Oh, a recall, that means death, that means sickness.' That's a different kind of issue," Williams said. "This is a lower severity, where there would be a remote probability of sickness."

DeLauro also asked what the USDA is doing to address staff shortages among slaughterhouse inspectors - an issue also raised by other food safety experts and watchdog groups Monday.

Washington, D.C.-based Food and Water Watch said the USDA has left up to 21 percent of inspector positions vacant in some areas. Williams, of the USDA, said there is no shortage of inspectors.

Two former Westland/Hallmark employees were charged Friday. Five felony counts of animal cruelty and three misdemeanors were filed against a pen manager. Three misdemeanor counts - illegal movement of a non-ambulatory animal - were filed against an employee who worked under that manager. Both were fired.

No charges have been filed against the company, but an investigation by federal authorities continues. A phone message left Monday for Westland/Hallmark president Steve Mendell was not returned.

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