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To: Rocket Red who wrote (5385)	12/28/2003 12:52:20 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) of 8273

I foresaw all this (feedlot and farmer non compliance) and stopped eating beef and all ground meat products ten years ago. This is the second time around. The controls they put in place in the early 90's are not working. Somebody had better get wise fast. Perhaps the consumer has to do his own thinking. I told them and told them. Once the contamination gets in the feed, it will be near impossible to eradicate without a sea change in government and farmer/rancher attitude. If they had gone back to chlorinated rendering, and took a responsible attitude toward testing, culling -and- also stopped sending sick animals or downed animals to the human food consumption this would never have happened. There is a billion dollar industry in Canada and the US in selling illegal meat, i.e. dead animals from various causes.. you never know what you are getting from even reputable packing houses. When I worked at Canada Packers in 1968, one in ten carcasses would drag on the ground from the hooks line. The skinned carcass that hits the floor is supposed to be disposed of, believe it or not. Fat Chance. The ground meat products are 25% soy, and now that has toxic insecticide in it as well. The beef that makes up ground meat burgers in a lot of plants is usually 50% fat or more. Not the 25% advertised. It could run to 75% fat in some mixes. Food colouring makes it look lean. Bacteria levels are astronomic. Ground frozen meat is hamburger disease roulette. All the public can do now is to stop eating beef altogether. This will allow the herds to reduce naturally, and if they are to rebuild the beef industry, they will have to do it by demonstrating safeguards are in place from farm to table, -- and the only way they can do this to any thinking person's comfort is for the seller to be able to certify that the meat is USDA "organic" from parentage to feed -- lifelong. EC<:-}

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