What’s My Beef?

February 20, 2008|Comments (none)

Veal Calf It is all over the news and yet the general public appears unbothered: a huge meat processing plant in California abuses cattle (the acts of violence are simply too horrible to go into but a few of them include waterboarding and ramming them with forklift blades) & the USDA is conducting an investigation and a massive recall of beef is issued. Josh and I wandered into the grocery store today and noticed plenty of folks grabbing up packages of beef without even glancing at the labels. We also noticed that various fast food establishments (all known to purchase their meat from such places) were just as busy as usual. This is no spinach scare: this is the largest meat recall in U.S. history.

Some of you may remember a post a few weeks ago in which I talked about The Ominvore’s Delimma in which Michael Pollan, a professor of environmental journalism at the University of California-Berkeley, says a very simple but amazing thing: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Our $30 billion dollar diet industry would like you to think that there is some magic formula to health and the truth is that our society consumes mass quantities of meats & dairy containing steroids (promoting weight gain), hormones(8 year old girls are now getting their periods), and antibiotics (Americans are now resistant to many antibiotics). All of these factors make for an overweight, hormonally imbalanced, and ill society.

Be sure you check out the Meatrix 2 1/2 which shows the truth about meat processing factories.