Has anyone read about this yet? I'd like to hear any thoughts you any have about this. Thanks!?!
Answers: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080217/ap_o...
It's revolting.
The things that happen behind the doors of farms and slaughterhouses are brutal and the fact that they CONTINUE to go on, most of the time unreported/undiscovered, is despicable. Stories like this and videos that I've seen... they break my heart and fill it with rage.
The whole industry is a joke - and I have no doubt that there's more rancid meat making it into the schools and supermarkets than we know about.
"Oh, it's a little bit brown, is it? We'll just scrape that bit off so it's still a deep juicy crimson and looks edible."
WHEN will people learn?
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Edit: I TOTALLY agree with maggie's answer - especially regarding the government-meat industry alliance.
Another reason not to eat it.
DONT EAT THE MEAT!!!!! NOOOOOO lol
Just read it. So sad )0:
Yes, I read that article. I have a LOT to say about it this time around!
It's disturbing because the meat industry contracts the government, making sure that a certain amount of beef (in million of pounds) is purchased every year for the purpose of feeding school children.
The fact that 40 million or so pounds of non-veterinarian inspected, cut-rate meat has already been EATEN from this recall by school children is ABSOLUTELY unacceptable.
The article mentions "non-ambulatory" cows were not checked by veterinarians. Meaning cows that were too sick or too messed up to move were still slaughtered and pushed to be fed to children, all in the name of profit. What's even worse is that probably if a vet had checked these "non-ambulatory" cows, they might have ended up ground beef anyway because of the apathy and slack of the USDA and the American public in general about these issues.
I just find it disturbing because this is a pretty clear example of the relationship between the government and the meat industry and of the low quality of school food. If you look up a history of movements in Congress to improve the quality of school food, meat, dairy and other food industry lobbyists almost IMMEDIATELY protest and get the bills shut down.
There have been movements to switch school lunches to lean cuts of meat (meaning no fatty ground beef and only lean chicken, pork tenderloin, etc). OBVIOUSLY that was shot down. There was a movement to cut out the use of butter and other cholesterol and fat-rich additives in school lunches. Also shut down - because the dairy industry has a contract with the government that a certain amount of butter has to be purchased every year.
There have been endless bills passed (and shot down) to remove candy machines or to remove the adverstisement-riddled "Channel One" kids news program from schools - Channel One is broadcasted in thousands of public schools nationwide and there's fast food and candy commercials riddled through what is otherwise a cheap news production (and is funded by food industry interests as yet another vehicle to push advertising at kids).
Low quality food is pretty much the nature of all American school food, with only a few shining examples few and far in between (interestingly, private schools or "reform" schools for "bad kids", where a "healthy" diet is a revolutionary instrument in helping reshape these kids and reform their behaviors).
I think this article is MOST disturbing because it illustrates the sort of junk that makes it into school lunches.
Profit and self-serving interest groups and food industry lobbyists are riding our nation's obese children straight to the bank and I'm sick of it.
eww that just makes me glad i don't eat it
Oh..gross.
Good thing I don't eat it.
But we have meat at our school alot. So I hope kids in my school don't get sick. :(
I haven't read it, but I accidently saw the cow get hit by the bulldozer on the CBS eve. news a couple of weeks ago. Just seeing that brief moment I saw made me so sick to my stomach that I vomited. It still makes me sick thinking about it. Tonight on my local news they showed the story, I had to turn the channel (I am too sensitive). I have always heard of the slaughterhouse horror stories, but to see it makes it much more real. I am glad I quit eating cows, it has been at least six years now and I will never go back. When I have a kid, if they don't choose to be a veg. then I will be sure that they do not eat the food at school. Most people when they are kids love animals, and I am sure that they would not want to eat the animals that are being abused. It is a good thing though that it is coming out about that place, maybe more people will decide to find out about how they get their meat and will see the atrocities that are happening to these animals and do something about it.
The recall was because the cattle "could not stand" - its part of the slaughter criteria.
Think how LOW the USDA standards must be is they feel the need to include "standing up " in the description of the animal !
As well as for "federal nutrition" ( eg schools ), the meat was also destined for "major fast food chains".
eeemmmm, prime beef eh ?