I have a friend that raises grass fed beef and she's made comments here and there about the horrible things going on in the large meat packing/processing plants and places where the cows are raised and I never really thought much about it. UNTIL I saw this article this morning! I think I'll be buying my beef from her or from Costco from now on! Or maybe not at all. It's worth watching/reading.
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Yeah so that just weirds me out, especially with all the shopping choices around here. Yikes!
we buy ours from a former brother in laws small farm. its really better tasting and you can have it packaged the size you want for your family. We just plan ever year (well about year and a half) to use some tax return for a half a beef (beef can last that long in the freezer, pork only 3 months and then it gets a weird taste) but its nice to always have meat ready when you decide what to make for dinner.
Yes, I do worry. TWO people I know have recently died of MAD COW disease. For real. The United States government won't acknowledge the relationship between beef and cruzfeldt-jakob (sp?) disease because it would mean they would have to regulate the beef industry more so things happen in the US that do not happen in Europe since the Mad Cow scare in the 1990s, meanwhile seeing what these people went through at the end, it was just really really awful and sad that our government cares so little.
PS-the ONLY way to get mad cow disease is to eat the nerve tissue of an infected creature. So not only are the conditions as horrible as in the article you posted, somehow cow brains is getting into the feed of other cows, and then when we eat ground beef, into people.
(I'm going to stop talking now, lest people think I'm a crazy conspiracy theorist. *wink*)
Oh wow! and yuck! Costco here I come :)
Ugh....not sure I want to go read it, but I will.
Very interesting. Makes me not want to buy hamburger any more. We do eat more chicken these days, and I am picky about not buying my meat at Wal-mart. But still, that's pretty scary!
Makes me grateful that we just bought 1/2 a beef from some friends!! So worth it to know where your food comes from.
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