safer meat?

no, just like with a lot of other things, safe and humane are not even anywhere near the top of the list.

bigger
fatter
badder
druggier (as in pumped up full of drugs)
crueler


i'm not preaching here. i am stating one of my beliefs. if you can't treat an animal with kindness (even if you are going to kill it for food later), then there is something not quite right with you. if you can be cruel to an animal, you sure as shite will have no problem being cruel to a human (did you know there is a big correlation between domestic abusers also abusing animals? don't believe me? well there are any number of sites out there. here's but one)


Big Meat's Big Day

In Ohio, the humane-farming debate is about to be uncaged.

—By Aina Hunter

Ohio voters will hit the polls Tuesday to decide the fate of an agribusiness-backed proposal that would amend the state constitution and create a board of political appointees to act as arbiters of what constitutes proper treatment of farm animals. In the eyes of its critics, the heavily favored measure, called Issue 2, represents the meat industry's preemptive strike against a fledgling nationwide movement toward humane food production.

Big Meat means big money in Ohio, the nation's second-largest producer of eggs (Iowa is No. 1) and a major player in pork and veal. The muscle behind Issue 2 is the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, whose political action committee has raised $4 million to promote the measure. .......

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