Kitanis <
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> On 26 Dec 2003 01:48:34 -0800,
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> >"Minnime" <
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> >> First of all I am not panicing, nor worrying. I think the US beef supply is safe
> >
> >First: two books you need to read: "Fast Food Nation" and "Slaughterhouse". Deregulation and
> >unscrupulous appointments to the regulatory commissions under the Reagan/Bush regimes totally
> >ruined the "wholesomeness" of the US meat industry.
> >
> >>and this was an isolated incident. However I am reading conflicting stories on how Mad Cow can
> >>be transferred to humans. I have read that hamburger could be suspect, yet steak is not. Muscle
> >>is not. Was the problem in britain that people were eating(yuck) the brain and spinal cord? Very
> >>confused so someone enlighten me please.
> >
> >Any meat that is contaminated with infected tissue could cause a problem. When you understand the
> >process of slaughtering, and the high incidence of contamination - with not only bodily fluids
> >(e.g. spinal fluid) but feces, blood and other tissues - you may better understand the real
> >concern.
> >
> >-L.
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> I have read Fast Food Nation.. the problem with this tome is. it is very full of unproven examples
Unproven examples such as what? - The lists of names of people who have died from contaminated food
or testimonials from their families, and the first-hand accounts of workers maimed in the
slaughterhouses, or the stories of the small-scale rancers put out of business by large corporations
and factory farms? The boojk has literally about 50 pages of documentation and references. It is a
very well-researched book.
>and is in fact an attack on the food industry as a whole.. Peta's Ra Ra book so to speak.
The author Eric Schlosser has no connection to PeTA or any other animal welfare or animal rights
group, so I guess you are completely off-base.
>
> But the Slaughterhouse book is a bit more interesting.
You obviously haven't read either book. Gail Eisnitz is associated with the Humane Farming
Association, and her book is much less well-documented, and more of a "one person" account of the
slaughterhouse business.
>
> I disagree with the Dregulation statement though.. I mean if this is indeed the problem.. then why
> was it not "fixed" under the Clinton administration..
They tried to "fix it" and most of what was changed was then relegislated once he was out of office.
Read FFN again. It discusses this.
Sounds very much like pointing fingures to me..
Well, they deserve to have fingers pointed at them. The incidence of meat-borne food poisioning
skyrocketed after line speeds increased, the regulations pertaining to contaminated meat (and the
decontamination of same) essentially became non-existent, and the food supply became a cess-pool. If
you think the meat supply is wholesome in this country, by all means, continue to eat it. AFAIC,
it's natural sleection in action.
>
> Concerned.. Of course I am concerned.. I mean you have ONE example of Mad Cow Disease in the US
> and Canada..
One documented. How many other cows have slipped though undetected?
>But for the last four years you have deer population also contracting Chronic Wasting Disease which
>is somewhat simular..
Deer are not a farmed meat animal, for the most part, so that is a non-issue.
-L.
