Bring home the cows...

The Bush adminsitration, in an effort to fight Mad Cow Disease, proposed to eliminate cow brains and spinal cords (of cows older than 30 months) from the feed of animals such as chickens, pigs, and pets. Cattle remains are already banned from cattle feed by the FDA. Mad Cow Disease mainly occurs when cattle are fed the contaminated remains of other cattle in the form of feed. Critics argue that it's not enough, saying the FDA proposed 19 months ago (after the first case of Mad Cow Disease in the US) to eliminate other materials such as blood, poultry litter, and restaurant plate waste. It has yet to do so.

…What is wrong with this picture? So up until now, the meatpacking industry has been feeding cattle THE BRAINS AND SPINES OF OTHER CATTLE in the form of cattle feed. Oh, not to mention blood, poultry litter, restaurant plate waste and whatever else they decide to toss in there. So…the cows that get turned into the meat we eat are being fed blood, other cattle remains, chicken crap, and the junk off people's plates that they didn't eat at restaurants…

In no way, shape, or form is this ecologically sound…Mother Nature must be having a heart attack right about now. The meatpacking industry, of course, applauded the proposal, saying that a more wide-spread ban on materials used in feed would result in 1.4 billion pounds of materials disposed annually. In other words, "it would cost too much to figure out a reasonable way to make use of it, so we're gonna feed it back to the cows we'll kill and sell as meat eventually".

What a joke! In an effort to keep their costs down, the meatpacker bigwigs basically feed the crap they can't get rid of back to the cattle and poultry we eat (well, most of us)! And the FDA seems content on settling with this. Granted, this proposal is a step in the right direction, but it's like a slap on the wrist. The cattle (and, eventually, most of us) are still being fed blood, fecal matter, waste food, and other animal body parts. Apparently, it costs too much to let the cows graze naturally and eat what they are designed to eat…like wheats and grains. You end up with leaner and healthier meat as it is, because there's less crap floating around the muscles. This can branch off into a whole range of issues, but I'm gonna stop here for now…thank God I'm fasting right now.

Vegetarians everywhere are laughing at the meat eaters...