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Re: O.T. Mad Cow
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Posted by Dick in Ore. on December 31, 2003 at 21:41:43 from (216.239.184.10):
In Reply to: O.T. Mad Cow posted by Doug on December 31, 2003 at 06:59:47:
The recent Mad Cow outbreak has been an eye-opener for the the public, be it good or bad.. I'm sure the majority of comsumers would have never imagined downer cows were used for human consumptuon. Since the media was full of the Mad Cow problem, they found out and the phones at the USDA were ringing off the hook. So to answer the concerns of the public, they banned the use of downer cattle for human consumption.. What did we find out from the Mad Cow scare? We found out that most of our fast food burger restaurants will not use meat from downed cattle. We found out that the meat from these downer cows is used for hamburger we buy in our supermarkets, and that includes the more expensive grinds of hamburger. We found out that just because an animal is "suspected" of have a disease and tissue samples are sent to a lab for testing,, that meat is still introduced into the food chain, "before" the results of the test are back.. That was the biggest suprise of all of this learning experience. But,, they think this may be changing in the near future.. Kind of makes sense,doesn't it? Now everyone knows that there are small slaughterhouses that "specialize" in culled dairy cattle, downed cows and all. We now know what they slaughter and where that meat goes. And, how the meat from one cow can contaminate tons of meat that is sent all over the western states even Hawaii and Guam. Now when a choice steer or cow falls down in an overcrowed trailer and gets trampled for hours on it's way to slaughter, and can't get up, well, it won't be dragged into the kill floor for slaughter. A few years ago in Washington State, a huge slaughterhouse got caught on tape skining cattle while still alive. One of those groups like PETA heard about this and got one of the employees to set up a secret video camera on the kill floor to document what was going on. Several employees had already quit because of the cruelty that was going on there. Once the tape was made, it made it's way to the nightly news, then the phones started to ring. This was during the big Ecoli scare and employees were complaining that managment was always speeding up the chains and they couldn't keep up and do a good job.. All the while this was happening under the watchful eye of the FSIS, Food Safety Inspection Service of the USDA.. So,, for anyone paying attention to the past week of events,, it has been a real education to say the least. Dick
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