Posted on 02/25/2008 10:14:07 PM PST by kathsua
The U.S. Department of Agriculture ordered the recall of 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a California processing plant because a video of animal abuse obtained by the Humane Society was splashed all over the news. The video showed workers cruelly using a forklift to move "downer" cattle (cattle that can't stand or walk) to be butchered. There are strict laws about moving non-ambulatory animals, so the former employees are facing five felony counts and three misdemeanors. Federal law prohibits using downer cattle for human consumption, but meat from this plant went to school cafeterias all over the country. All over the country news crews went searching for downer cow footage and many states are now pushing stricter food safety regulations.
I'm thinking the two former employees of the Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. would fare better with a jury of California vegans than with Kansas beef producers.
Legislators immediately criticized the USDA and called for more thorough inspections. Dr. Dick Raymond, the USDA Undersecretary for Food Safety, said that inspectors are at the slaughterhouses continuously. Humane Society President Wayne Pacelle claimed the USDA inspector was only at the Westland plant about two hours each day.
Question: How often are abortion clinics inspected?
How can our society get so worked up about the plight of cattle and at the same time be so willfully ignorant and callous about the plight of unborn children, vulnerable women, and underage victims of rape and incest.
Ultrasound technology makes it possible to videotape the entire process of a late-term abortion, but don't expect to see one anytime soon. If you think the Humane Society's forklifted cattle video is hard to watch, imagine a video showing a D&E (dilation and extraction) procedure. This horrific procedure is so disturbing few news organizations consent to even accurately describing it.
No inspector. No video. No legislative criticism. No press conferences.
In most cases the children aborted in the second and third trimester are perfectly healthy. They are as human as you are and just as alive. If a C-section were performed instead of an abortion, adoptive families would eagerly take these children. Late-term abortions generate a lot of money.
Gov. Sebelius, whose campaign was funded by late-term abortion money, vetoed a measure that would have required abortion clinics in Kansas to obtain an annual license, hire surgeons as their medical directors and report patient deaths to the state within a day. It would have also set standards for equipment, medical screenings, ventilation and lighting.
How long do you think it will be before a downer cow protection law flies though congress? In California, it is probably already drafted.
In Kansas, legislation to inspect abortion clinics stands little chance of success. The vetoed bill to license abortion clinics broke through only because of an incident that took place at Krishna Rajanna's Affordable Medical and Surgical Services in Kansas City, Kan. The conditions of this clinic and the reason the Kansas Board of Healing Arts revoked Dr. Rajanna's license are also too disturbing to describe (check out http://tinyurl.com/23fw7c or http://tinyurl.com/yqvd5r), but it did not receive anywhere near the national coverage of forklifted cattle.
The general public is clueless about what transpires in many abortion clinics. Abortion providers are the bottom-feeders of the medical profession, who accept cash, checks or credit cards and ask few if any questions. The "counseling" comes nowhere near educating girls about the health risks and psychological problems they are about to take on.
Where are the inspectors? Where are the indignant legislators? Where are the investigative reporters? Saving downer cows?
Don't get me wrong. If I was on the jury, I would have little sympathy for anyone who forklifted sick cattle and even less sympathy for those who ignore common sense food safety regulations. Those regulations are there to protect human life - especially our children.
Russell Steen is a husband and father who lives and works in Pratt. E-mail: panaruss@aol.com.
It's a demonic thing. You wouldn't understand.
Can't imagine why. It's no worse, food wise, than the Marxist claptrap curriculum they INSIST on. Go figure.
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