Showing posts with label downer cattle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label downer cattle. Show all posts

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Beef, it's what's for dinner? or Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

Working and attending school, I miss much of the mainstream news, but anyone within hearing can not miss seeing the 'downer cow' harvest footage shot by a Humane Society worker undercover at a slaughterhouse in Chino, California. Kinda makes those "come to California" ads put on a different slant, just like knowing more about McDonald's makes it difficult to stomach eating a burger with that taste.

What is the taste of a sick cow? How dangerous, frighting and in-humane does our food supply have to become for us to stop doing and allowing these things.

I could not watch the entire thing all the way through - there are several related videos on the humane society's site. Today I was a vegetarian, even if I know that smaller animals died harvesting that food - it's got to be a whole lot better than this - repeated many times over.

Beef Recall - Humane Society Investigation Prompts Record Recall

Warning: Graphic video. An HSUS undercover investigation prompts the USDA to recall 143 million pounds of beef from a California slaughter plant; now HSUS urges Congress to take action.