Yes, and, by gad... 
it tasted like chicken!
Posted on 02/17/2008 6:35:00 PM PST by stillafreemind
The animal abuse by the employees using the forklift have more far reaching implications than the abuse itself. The risk of E.Coli, salmonella or mad cow disease contamination is much greater because of the animal being shoved across the hard surfaces where the hide and possibly meat can come into contact with these various diseases. When the animal is then processed and mixed with the other beef, it is very hard to tell which package of beef is contaminated. That is why such a large amount (143 million pounds) of beef is being recalled.
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This one’s not as bad as that kosher slaughterhouse where workers were slashing and ripping the tracheas out of fully conscious cattle. You don’t have to be an animal nut to abhor such things.
From what I’ve read, most has already been consumed.
Venison dies on the hoof, and it's butchered and in my freezer with no forklift involved.
Though sometimes in the woods a small forklift would come in handy! ;-)
Yes, and, by gad... it tasted like chicken!
Hopefully nobody sick.
I don’t eat much beef these days.
LOL..We eat a lot of beef..we just don’t buy it out of the stores. Dexters are the way to go!
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When the animals they are scooping up are down in the first place because they are too diseased to walk then I think its right to be concerned.
If I understand this right..the recalled product dated back to Feb. 1st 2006. Can that be right? Well, it was frozen beef..so I guess it could be right.
Kinda makes ya wanna pack your kid’s lunch, don’t it?
Oh .. now that REALLY isn’t right! LOL.
What is the Holiday where all the Mexicans want to slaughter an animal in their back yard. There is also one that the Moslem’s have where they cut the goat are sheeps throat.
Oh..I’m sorry.
What is the Holiday where all the Mexicans want to slaughter an animal in their back yard.
I believe that’s pretty much any holiday..or at least around here it is! (throw in weddings, birthdays and anniversarys too.)
Well from my experience of working in a slaughterhouse from when I was 13 until my late 20’s (family business, 500 cattle a day), I can tell you that I’ve seen it happen multiple times. A steer or cow that is unable to make it up the kill ramp be it from sickness or a broken leg is moved by whatever means possible to the kill chute. That animal was always followed closely by the USDA inspectors, and all parts were tested and quarantined. I haven’t seen the video, but I do know in our case the animals were put out of their misery early on. From what I’ve read it appears the inspectors in this case weren’t doing their jobs. This is what they are supposed to prevent.
This sort of thing is why I’ve been a vegetarian (not vegan) for 33 years. It’s not that I think it’s totally unethical to kill animals for food, but commercial meat production necessarily involves killing and butchering sentient creatures as a full time job, all day every day. I think this causes many people to become completely desensitized to suffering. There is zero incentive in a for-profit meat-production business (even at the farm level, not just slaugherhouses) to give a crap about much pain, suffering, and sheer terror you’re causing another sentient creature, and a lot of incentive not to. Buying the products is promoting these attitudes and practices. Same with fur production. There are fox farms where some employees spend all day sticking electrocution probes up the anuses of foxes to kill them. No way do these people go home to their families with their humanity intact.
I agree with you whole heartedly. It was the inspectors and it was the company not calling the vet in to deem whether it was a safe animal to process.
The “vet” is supposed to be doing his job full time. He shouldn’t need to be called. In our case the inspectors loved to shut down the whole operation for so much as a fly in the plant. I don’t know what has happened since then, if they are now on call or whatever.
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