Meat - mad cow disease and the US beef industry

A Korean documentary about food safety; featuring Natural News and an interview with Howard Lyman. You can also learn about Japanese food safety standards, to which US food safety standards are nowhere near as rigorous!
Japan still does not allow GMO-s into their country either. 

Since lots of readers would like to know more about meat, this film is one of the documentaries to watch.  Most of your meat is produced (!) in factory farms, where animals are fed GM corn and soy they cannot properly digest; They are diseased, riddled with E-coli, and pumped with hormones and antibiotics regularly. They are "raised", I mean pumped up to the weight to be eligible for slaughter in half the time they would normally grow. 

The other important thing you should know about is rendering, which is basically a manual how to spread mad cow disease effectively! This is what it means:

“When a cow is slaughtered, about half of it by weight is not eaten by humans: the intestines and their contents, the head, hooves, and horns, as well as bones and blood. These are dumped into giant grinders at rendering plants, as are the entire bodies of cows and other farm animals known to be diseased. Rendering is a $2.4 billion-a-year industry, processing 40 billion pounds (18 billion kg) of dead animals a year. There is simply no such thing in America as an animal too ravaged by disease, too cancerous, or too putrid to be welcomed by the all-embracing arms of the renderer. Another staple of the renderer's diet, in addition to farm animals, is euthanized pets – the six or seven million dogs and cats that are killed in animal shelters every year. The city of Los Angeles alone, for example, sends some two hundred tons of euthanized cats and dogs to a rendering plant every month.”

“Added to the blend are the euthanized catch of animal control agencies, and road kill. (Road kill is not collected daily, and in the summer, the better road kill collection crews can generally smell it before they can see it.) When this gruesome mix is ground and steam-cooked, the lighter, fatty material floating to the top gets refined for use in such products as cosmetics, lubricants, soaps, candles, and waxes. The heavier protein material is dried and pulverized into a brown powder-about a quarter of which consists of faecal material. The power is used as an additive to almost all pet food as well as to livestock feed. Farmers call it protein concentrates. In 1995, five million tons of processed slaughterhouse leftovers were sold for animal feed in the United States. I used to feed tons of the stuff to my own livestock. It never concerned me that I was feeding cattle to cattle.”

You can also watch the Mad Cowboy documentary here.

Bon Appetite!