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go veg, young woman!
You beat me to the mad cow expose.
damn working!
Excellent bit, chica. I had to go and ask DH a billion questions and then come read it again, lol. But I am suitably freaked out.
And I am fascinated/intrigued by my own realization that kosher dietary laws would protect against this. Like no blood products- including the practice of salting meat to pull the blood from it, and animals are humanely killed, and vigorously inspected before butchering, and the bit about "thou shalt not boil a calf in it's mother's milk" . . . Everybody laughs at these laws as if they are silly, but I have to wonder . . .
Yeah, that struck me too.
No mixing of meat and milk, only certain parts of the animal can be eaten...
However, the milk/blood of cattle is eaten by a tall African tribe (name escapes me right now) and they have never had problems. In fact, they barely eat vegetables. Just calcium/dairy and protein.
I think it's mainly if you feed a ruminant or other vegetarian animal meat products, bad things happen.
Sad.
I love cows. One of my very very favorite things is to see a herd placidly chewing cud on a green hill. I know I'm an emotional freak, but there's something so lovely and charming about that.
The reality is that most cattle are bunched together 2 months before they are slaughtered, and fed their dead brethren to fatten them up and "increase their muscle tone". Because they are so packed together in their own poop (which is why they are fed hormones and antibiotics--to grow fast and protect them from their own poo), they atrophy.
Sick. And this is wha
my own comment got cut?
This is what McD's wants us to eat.
It ain't like the goat lady from Cold Mountain at all.
Buying Kosher? May be a good idea after all, Moishe.
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