My Beef Checkoff
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Bea has a great post up right now about beef.
It’s her response to MyBeefCheckoff.com.
It’s simply a collection of reasons to stop eating cows:
Barbed wired. Sentient, docile cows standing in their own waste on feedlots. Dehorning. Branding. Castration… without anesthesia. Downers. And forklifts. Manure. Cattle prods. Nitrates. Cows forced to eat an unnatural diet of corn, poultry litter and slaughterhouse waste. Recalls. Destruction of the world’s rainforests. Water waste and contamination. “Calving season” and “culls”. Methane. Antibiotics. Grazing land issues. Crowded transport trucks. Artificial insemination. Conflict with wildlife. Hormones. Rodeos. Irradiation. The hide pulling machine. The bleedrail. MadCow. E-Coli O157:H7. World hunger. Animals as “commodities”. Poisonous “leather” processing chemicals. The captive bolt gun. Saturated fat. Evisceration. Fear. Death.
Like her, I’ve checked beef off my grocery list. I think she nails it with this list above.
What do you think?
Wonderful! I love, love it! Just “enough” on the visuals – and the “sacrosanct” music is perfect background! I don’t know how you do it Elaine… You just amaze me!
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