Dirty Meat
By starrysteve
@starrysteve (12)
August 27, 2006 2:41pm CST
Meat is the unhealthy product of an unhealthy system. Most farmed animals are diseased, drugged and infected by the time they reach slaughter – and then they are turned into food for us. The consequences are hardly surprising. Epidemics such as BSE and bird flu lead to human fatalities; intensive farming causes food poisoning and antibiotic resistance; foot-and-mouth sees animals slaughtered to preserve profits - and the next crisis is impossible to predict. All that’s sure is that Government, farmers and retailers have failed to protect the health of animals and humans so far and that the only safe thing to do is avoid meat completely.
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17 responses
@AskAlly (3625)
• Canada
8 Jan 07
We raise beef (organic beef) on our ranch and we eat red meat everday. I don't think meat is diry. I do hate plucking chickens (free range)though. But these are just the thoughts of a country girl that pulls carrots out of the ground (mixed with cow poop for fertilizer)wipes them off on her pants and eats them.
@the_vicar (1477)
• United States
26 Nov 06
I actually would be vegetarian if I didn't have to cook for a family who isn't vegetarian and don't want to be. I like soy "meats" just as well as the real thing but my husband doesn't. So, for now, we will remain carnivorous although I agree with everything you stated in your discussion. Animals who would never eat meat are fed animal parts while dogs and cats who are carnivorous are fed cotton seed hulls and corn. It all sounds kind of crazy doesn't it? All in all we are poisoning our panet and in the long run, humans and many other species will become one more victim on the list of extintions.
@Galena (9110)
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2 Jun 07
free range.
simple answer to that.
we don't need to become vegetarian, we need to care about the way livestock live.
I eat meat, and I'm the first person to say, Factory farming is disgusting and inexcusable.
I'm the first person to say that a herbivore should not be fed bits of it's own species to save money.
I'm the first to say that animals should not be kept in disgusting overcrowded conditions where infections spread easily. I'm the first to say the solution to this isn't pumping the birds full of antibiotics to prevent spread, but to keep them in humane and healthy conditions.
the answer isn't cutting out meat eating. the countryside needs livestock farming. a countryside turned over to arable farming alone will not have the diversity of wildlife and wild plants. pesticides to kill of so called weeds, and the hedgerows removed to allow more efficient processing of the crops. removing habitat and plants that you find so often in livestock farms.
the best thing to do is to completely reject factory farmed meat. it is barbaric, outdated, unhealthy and inexcusable.
buy free range or better still free range and organic meat. support the ethical production methods, and more animals will live a happy, as natural as possible life.
better still, eat game. they live a completely natural life, choose where they live, what they eat, and then one day they are shot.
some people will say that is cruel, but the life that animal has led is infinitely better than that same persons KFC bargain bucket could ever dream of.
@TheWuzz (98)
• United States
28 Aug 06
Yeah the ramblings of the offspring of the flower children of the 60's. If everyone lived in your cacoons we would still be living in the 1400's and with everyone eating meat. If being a veggi eater is so great why don't you leave other people alone and enjoy it. I will eat my salads and meat no matter how much you and others like you rant and rave.
@PeaceLover (80)
• Egypt
18 Sep 06
if it's well done(cooked)or boiled it will be healthy,and remember that our body needs animal protien or you get ill .
@jayram (134)
• India
16 Oct 06
Leading a non-veg diet is posing a gr8 threat nowadays.........infected and outdated ones r being supplied in the market.These butchrs r churning out profit frm the very cause for the suffering of many people.
Proper inspections must b conducted in these shops and infetced ones shd b removed,then only the public can consume the most suspicious...... meat.
@Jcblu78 (185)
• Canada
28 Aug 06
hhmm, I have eaten meat all my life. Guess what? I'm still alive. And if by chance I eat bad meat and it kills me, then so be it. If I want to suntan, and I die of cancer, so be it. If I end up dying in a car accident, so be it. I'm not saying that any of these ways are nice ways to die... but really, is there a nice way to die. I'm tired of all the threats that "this" might kill you, or "that" might kill you. We are all going to die. So live life, be happy, have fun, eat meat!