and don't tell me you don't care about THAT
did you pack your kid's lunch today or are they getting a hamburger in the school cafeteria?
Meat Company Fires 2 Over Cruelty to Livestock
By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer
A California slaughterhouse yesterday fired two employees, and the Agriculture Department opened a formal investigation following revelations that the plant used inhumane and what appear to be illegal methods to get sick and hobbled cows past federal inspectors.
The abuse, shown in videotapes shot with a concealed camera by an employee who was working undercover for the Humane Society of the United States, included zealous use of electric prods to get ailing animals on their feet; chains to drag live cows down a ramp toward the killing room; and repeated jabs with the prongs of a forklift, which was also used to roll ailing animals along the ground. .......
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I eat beef.
Grass fed. Free range. From the coop.
We don't eat factory-farmed foods if we can help it at all. Sugar won't let us.
it's a shame free range is usually way more expensive. it's a shame organic is more expensive as well.
for someone who doesn't buy dairy, eggs for meat, my grocery bills are out there.
free range and organic are way too expensive.
even for non organic as a non-dairy, meat or egg eater, my grocery bill is not pretty. (i do buy organic when i can)
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