Vegan Soapbox » MyBeefCheckoff http://www.vegansoapbox.com vegan theory, vegan activism, vegan video, vegan food and vegan resources for vegans, vegetarians, animal rights activists, animal liberationists, and abolitionists Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:17:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 My Beef Checkoff http://www.vegansoapbox.com/my-beef-checkoff/ http://www.vegansoapbox.com/my-beef-checkoff/#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:58:34 +0000 Eccentric Vegan http://www.vegansoapbox.com/?p=6166 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?

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