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To: Mannie who wrote (8623)	1/7/2002 7:10:37 AM
From: Clappy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 104160

Did you gain a few pounds while you were away? Sounds like you ate well and enjoyed it. My holidays were a two week foodfest also. I have to dust off those vegetarian cook books. The airplane seats seem smaller than ever... Speaking of the vegetarianism, I saw several reasons as to why I should get back on the veggie wagon. It seems that New Mexico doesn't really have much need for cowboys any more. It seems the way they grow cattle is by keeping thousands of them corralled in a tight area along the interstate where they just stand around or sit around in their own waste by products, and wait for the tractor trailor to pull up and pour out their processed food mixture that gets layed out approx. 1 foot away from the steel bars that they put their head through to nosh. There is no pasture for them. Just a dirt corral covered in crap and piss. (They probably get less exercise than me...) The concentration of methane gas and cow urine fumes is so strong that you can smell it from miles away. The milk from that farm must be loaded with good stuff. Probably goes well with the processed styrofoam tasting cereal that they sell for $4 a box these days. While driving through Arizona, I saw they had free range cattle. Out there it seems that they at least get some execise and eat natural grass. The cows looked a little bit smaller but healthier. And I guess they can't milk those herds because they are too difficult to round up. Anyhow it all got me thinking about how companies like perhaps McDonalds or some other major chain must grow their burger meat. I would not think that a super-corporation like them would use any thing but the most unnatural method of obtaining fat cattle. I can't imagine what the farms are like where they get their beef from. I would think that it comes from some 3rd world nation where they could really abuse the laws, but then again I have done no such research. They may get all their beef from the US using only friendly farmers' naturally fed cattle. Anyhow, it's a new year. Maybe I'll lay off the beef again for a while, at least until barbeque season begins again... Gotta run. Looks like we finally got some snow around here. I have to shovel about 3 inches before heading to work. To think that just a few days ago I was in short sleeves watching the cows bake... -BurgerBoy