Organic MEATING!

[Guest guest]

Meat was served at the Bioneers conference last weekend in Marin.

Their byline is " Practical and Visionary Solutions for Restoring the Earth "

 

We distributed the following flyer. People really think that when they

eat " organic " meat that the animals are treated like house companions!!

 

You may wish to write a few lines to the Marin Independent Journal at

opinion

or

www.bioneers.org

 

 

New Federal Organic Standards QUIZ - The following DO NOT apply to

organic meat - TRUE OR FALSE

 

1. Auctioning 2-day old calves for veal crates where they cannot turn

and often live in their own excrement.

 

2. Shipping " exhausted " cows (from constant pregnancies and milking) to

slaughter where they may become " downers " too weak to walk and dragged

by chains or pushed by forklifts.

 

3. Using slaughtering equipment in regular, commercial slaughterhouses

which have had to recall MILLIONS of pounds of infected meat.

 

4. Pulling or cutting out the testicles of calves, lambs and pigs

(castration) without anesthesia and painkillers.

 

5. Cutting off the beaks of chicks with hot irons and branding baby

animals with red hot irons.

 

6. Grinding male chicks alive or stuffing them into garbage bags to

suffocate.

 

7. Depriving terrified animals of water who are crammed into hot trucks

no matter how many hours the trip.

 

8. Using an acre of land to produce 165 pounds of beef (which could

yield 20 THOUSAND pounds of potatoes).

 

9. Using 2,500 gallons of water to produce one POUND of meat.

 

10. Contributing to the devastating effects of mounting pollution with

excess " organic " manure.

 

11. Pus counts in milk exceeding 200 million parts per quart.

 

ANSWERS:

1 through 9 - FALSE. A few standards address animal housing and movement

but exceptions are common and inspections questionable.

 

10. Ten billion animals now produce 130 times more excrement than the

entire human population. Excess " organic " manure (and animal

raising and processing) contributes to the 2nd consumer-related cause of

environmental devastation (Union of Concerned Scientists).

 

11. Pus in milk should not exceed more than 200 million parts per quart

of milk (Fed. Standard).

California average was 298 in 2002 according to Hoard's Dairyman - See

www.NotMilk.com