but its the feces which makes it taste so good

[Guest guest]

JUST COOK THE CRUD OUT OF IT !!!

Diane Carman, The Denver Post

 

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E115%257E752254,00.html

 

DIANE CARMEN, DENVER POST COLUMNIST: If 19 million

pounds of meat distributed to half of this country had been

contaminated with a deadly strain of E. coli bacteria by terrorists,

we'd go nuts. But when it's done by a Fortune 100 corporation, we

continue to buy it and feed it to our kids.

 

As children are weaned from dialysis, joining others recovering

from eating ground beef contaminated with feces, the rest of us

are ready to return to business as usual from the meat industry.

 

Be sure to cook those burgers well, we remind each other.

Well-done burgers won't give you renal failure despite the traces

of manure.

 

Consumers, like cattle being led to the slaughter, barely twitch

when the corporate machine that controls our food supply ships

another load of tainted meat. We've come to expect it. We

actually blame ourselves for not sterilizing our meat

thermometers every time we check to see if the fecal contaminants

are done.

 

Meanwhile, we pay no attention when the industry eliminates

another safeguard. Faster meat disassembly lines, fewer poorly

paid workers, fewer inspectors, more mechanized processing ---

they're all designed with profits, not consumers, in mind.

 

It's no wonder that federal officials count 61 deaths and 73,000

cases of E. coli 0157:H7 poisoning in the U.S. every year. By

comparison, it took only a handful of cases of the human form of

mad cow disease to shut down the beef industry for three years in

Great Britain, where consumers fought back.

 

Kathy Kelley, a cattle rancher near Meeker, is exasperated with

" lazy " American consumers who don't have a clue about the source

of their food, much less the shame-less exploitation of humans,

animals and the environment involved in its production.

 

Kelley doesn't think of the 19 million pounds of recalled beef as

mere hamburger but as tons of costly feed, acre-feet of scarce

water, years of work by ranchers and thousands of head of cattle

slaughtered --- and wasted --- all because of an inherently

filthy system.

 

" There is no reason for people in this country to have E. coli

poisoning, " she said. " It's entirely a byproduct of industrial

meat processing. "

 

" They hire economic refugees, exploit unskilled workers, steal

the meat from the suppliers and endanger the lives of the

consumers, " said another angry cattleman, Mike Callicrate of St.

Francis, Kansas. Ranchers are getting " the lowest share of the

consumer's meat dollar in history, " while consumers are " paying

the highest prices in history for the dirtiest product since 1906

when Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle. " Callicrate said.

 

The free market system has collapsed. While drought-stressed

ranchers sell off herds for a fraction of their value, meat

prices remain unmoved. Deliberately inadequate labeling thwarts

consumers from making informed choices. Information about what

country the animal is from or the packing plant that processed it

is withheld, and measures to require those details repeatedly

have been defeated in the legislature, at the urging of the meat

industry.

 

They don't want us to know.

 

Then, to protect the corporation from litigation, we're reminded

once again to be sure to cook the living, well, manure out of it.

They freely admit it's the only way we can be sure the product

they're selling won't kill us.

 

Diane Carman's commentaries appear Tuesday, Thursday and

Sunday in the Denver Post.

[Guest guest]

Thx Fraggle!

 

This is what scares me to death about my son Zak! As he is a picky-

eater, it is so hard for me to try to get him not to eat meat etc. So

I will have to just try to take it slow and abide by what happens.

But at the same time, I find it quite difficult to tell him to stop

messing around at the dinner table and eat! I just don; feel right

forcing him to eat his burger/chicken/fish etc. I don;t even feel

good about sitting at the table.

 

It scares me to death if I were to say " Eat your Chesseburger! " and

then next day admit him to the hospital for E'Coli poisoning. What

kind of mommy am I then? I knew the risk and then poisoned my son.

 

This is definately my biggest hurdle to overcome.

 

nikki

 

 

 

, EBbrewpunx@c... wrote:

> JUST COOK THE CRUD OUT OF IT !!!

> Diane Carman, The Denver Post

>

>

> DIANE CARMEN, DENVER POST COLUMNIST: If 19 million

> pounds of meat distributed to half of this country had been

> contaminated with a deadly strain of E. coli bacteria by terrorists,

> we'd go nuts. But when it's done by a Fortune 100 corporation, we

> continue to buy it and feed it to our kids.

>

> As children are weaned from dialysis, joining others recovering

> from eating ground beef contaminated with feces, the rest of us

> are ready to return to business as usual from the meat industry.

>

>

[Guest guest]

well..our taste buds are slanted toward fats and sweets, especially when we are

young...our ancestors didn't really get all that much meat(how often could they

have possibly taken down a mammoth??), so, the protein burst they got from it

was hardwired into our lil brains...problem is, our diets, especially in the

west , have changed soooo dang much..such a heavy influence on dead

animals...why else do you think there is such a problem with obesity here...we

start em young...

just go slow woth him, and talk to him about it all..

kids would eat cake all day if they could as well...doesn't mean its good fer

em...

cheers

fraggle

 

 

" nikki_mackovitch " <nikkimack wrote:

 

> That's a good idea, but not sure about the dog part LOL

>he'll fear fer Reno's life at every dinner

>

>what hurts is there is not much non-meat he likes

>

>going to take it slow and work it out

>

>talking with other parents is a great idea!!!

>

>thx!

>

>

>, EBbrewpunx@c... wrote:

>> give it time

>> maybe it would be good if you talked with other vegan parents who

>went vegan after they had kids and how they dealt with it...

>>

>> me..i would just find out wot non-meaty things he likes and move in

>that direction..and then when he wants a fat loaded over salted death

>burger explain " mommy doesn't think that is such a good idea,

>because... "

>> would zak eat a doggie?? probably not...

>> kids are smart...tell em the facts and see wot happens

>> cheers

>> fraggle

>>

>>

>> " nikki_mackovitch " <nikkimack@m...> wrote:

>>

>> >Thx Fraggle!

>> >

>> >This is what scares me to death about my son Zak! As he is a picky-

>> >eater, it is so hard for me to try to get him not to eat meat etc.

>So

>> >I will have to just try to take it slow and abide by what happens.

>> >But at the same time, I find it quite difficult to tell him to

>stop

>> >messing around at the dinner table and eat! I just don; feel right

>> >forcing him to eat his burger/chicken/fish etc. I don;t even feel

>> >good about sitting at the table.

>> >

>> >It scares me to death if I were to say " Eat your Chesseburger! "

>and

>> >then next day admit him to the hospital for E'Coli poisoning. What

>> >kind of mommy am I then? I knew the risk and then poisoned my son.

>> >

>> >This is definately my biggest hurdle to overcome.

>> >

>> >nikki

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> >, EBbrewpunx@c... wrote:

>> >> JUST COOK THE CRUD OUT OF IT !!!

>> >> Diane Carman, The Denver Post

>> >>

>> >>

>> >> DIANE CARMEN, DENVER POST COLUMNIST: If 19 million

>> >> pounds of meat distributed to half of this country had been

>> >> contaminated with a deadly strain of E. coli bacteria by

>terrorists,

>> >> we'd go nuts.  But when it's done by a Fortune 100 corporation,

>we

>> >> continue to buy it and feed it to our kids.

>> >>

>> >> As children are weaned from dialysis, joining others recovering

>> >> from eating ground beef contaminated with feces, the rest of us

>> >> are ready to return to business as usual from the meat industry.

>> >>

>> >>

>> >

>> >

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