Gov. meat question ?????

[bscamo]

Tonight , on the national news here , there was segment about the largest provider of government beef being abusive and cruel to the "cattle" they were going to slaughter for government programs such as school lunches.

At the beginning of this segment was the statement that such treatment was necessary since the cows were sick and/or old. This was the only way they could get them to the slaughter area.

Granted , the treatment was not nice. But the 1st question that entered my mind was why our government would allow AND PROVIDE sick beef to be used to feed our children and other pholk ?

Maybe I'm just and just come up with weird questions......

BTW , the government suspended buying that meat from that company because of the "alleged" mistreatments..... At least phor me....... IMHO , those are the wrong reasons.

And they also want us to accept their "opinion" that cloned beef is OK phor us ?

[digger48]

Having raised livestock I have seen both sides of the issue. Personally I have butchered injured livestock but usually within minutes of it happening. Had a shoat that was about a120 pounds that did the splits on wet concrete. Just horsing around with some other pigs. I happened to be filling the water at the time. Couldn't get up so knocked him in the head with a hammer and stuck him to bleed him. Drug him in to the basement and butchered him. It was below zero out side at the time. Ruptured pigs the same way. Paid a vet to fix one and it died so figured I will eat it rather than pay him.
Another time a neighbor had a nice dairy cow slip on ice and did the same as the first pig I wrote about. New years Eve, 1120 pm the neighbor calls and says it can't get up. So the wife and I go shoot it and skin it and all and have it hanging to cool by 3 am.
Is there a humane way to kill animals. To me no as it hurts no matter what way is employed. But that is just a personal issue. When the animal is in pain I will dispatch it the best way possible at the time. If it is a fresh injury I will eat it but if the animal has a fever forget it. The rendering truck will get it.

[bscamo]

d48 , I agree.

Injured animals are one thing and sick ones are another.

Maybe we should feed the sick ones to our government entities/individuals who believe such stuff (sick , cloned , drugged , etc.) is OK?

[peachfly]

d48...just wanted you to know what an interesting comment you wrote... ...i'm a city girl who now lives in a small town and just tries to grow a little food for DH and herself...have always wanted to live on a farm despite all the hard work it entails primarily because i think most of the food i purchase is contaminated in some way with stuff i don't even want to know about...wish i could do everything myself...am so impressed that you could kill and skin a cow in the middle of the night...or any time for that matter...

bscamo, i'm with you...i can't imagine feeding school kids meat from sick animals...my oldest daughter homeschools her 5 boys and my youngest daughter is considering the same with her 2 because we never know what's going on in our schools today...but that's another topic....

[abirdseyeview]

bscamo said:

"And they also want us to accept their "opinion" that cloned beef is OK phor us ?"

I can't understand why anyone would tend to question the soundness of the governments advice. After all they're the same folks that used to have us hide up under our desks during nuclear attack drills.

[bscamo]

I agree abev

Obviously ,

We can't believe all our government tells us !

As far as the nuclear attack reference , I always believed more in the poster...... " Put your head between your legs......."

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bscamo said:

I agree abev

Obviously ,

We can't believe all our government tells us !

As far as the nuclear attack reference , I always believed more in the poster...... " Put your head between your legs......."

I actually remember having to do those stupid drills - always thought to myself "Time to pucker up, baby...."