143 million pounds of beef nationally is being tossed out I'm not sure if I'm more shocked that they were abusing the cows or that the U.S. has this much damn meat at its disposal? It was stated that this is the largest beef recall in national history. However, I would like to know more about the penalty Hallmark/Westland Meat Co. will face for the maltreatment of their animals and monetary loss. I have been gone so maybe something was aired or printed.
My hope is this is a wakeup call for our nation. We need to be better stewards to our animals. Yes, I believe that eating meat is part of the food chain. Although, this comes with responsibility and obligation to the animals we are killing.
Recently I was at my local grocery store in hopes of finding a humane egg. My husband just read The Omnivores Dilemma and was horrified by the treatment of chickens for their eggs. I looked for around 10 minutes, reading every label. I don't want them to be just organic or just free range. I want to know that they weren’t kept in cages, that they are not put in the dark to produce more eggs, that they got time outside to do chicken stuff.
I found one, which the name escapes me but it had a humane seal on it, "guaranteeing" its chicken’s quality of life. I put it is quotation marks because, really how will we know. I have to hope that it is true.
Back to the subject, please know where your meat and dairy comes from. Buy organic and free range. This is too expensive you say. Well eat less of it then. Buy quality humane products that cost more and eat them less. I promise that I will seek out the best products and support only those businesses.
Don't give your business to companies that torture, they don't deserve your money and the animals for sure don’t deserve the treatment.
No sir, I don’t want any of your tainted beef!
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I am well on my way to being vegetarian again. This makes me sick! We need to get our own little farm going...a dairy cow, some chickens...then we'd know for sure where our food is coming from! :-)
My husband and I are seriously considering eliminating meat from our diet. I was a vegetarian for about 20 years, until I became pregnant and craved meat. I believe energy is passed from animal to human and there is no way in hell I want to eat meat from an animal that has been so tortured. This makes me sick! I hope the people involved in animal torture rot in a hell full of animal shit!
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