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Is Pink Meat Fresh Meat? Not Anymore... [VIDEO]

Posted by Evan Derkacz at 4:13 AM on February 9, 2007.


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Jim Hightower flays, eviscerates, and excoriates without the object of his indignation ever knowing they've been targeted. It's too damned sweet and funny...

In this latest, Hightower takes the FDA's latest industry give-away to task.

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Evan Derkacz is an AlterNet editor. He writes and edits PEEK, the blog of blogs.


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Finally, a meaty issue that we all have a steak in!
Posted by: gazooks on Feb 9, 2007 8:44 AM   
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Sorry, it was the just the foreskin story, ..... Boycott !!! etc,

.....thanks Jim.

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Make mine Well done
Posted by: ccluelessfl60 on Feb 9, 2007 10:57 PM   
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In some states they let them die the meat pink, but in all states they get to add water and not tell us. Increases profits. Most meats that are refrigerated and still spoil, spoil from the water going rancid. And one trick meat producers use, to keep profits up, is to crowd livestock in pens so none fall down and can be slaughtered. If an inspector sees them hit the ground they can not butcher it. That used to be the rule. Bet we all have ate a lot of sick meat, so be sure and make it well done. By the way how many meat inspectors are there at the FDA?

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» 7600 Posted by: lessbread
Go Vegetarian.
Posted by: PeaceLove on Feb 12, 2007 12:00 PM   
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Going vegetarian instantly ends your participation in many horrors:

1. Polluted groundwater from factory farm toxic waste, arising from feces and urine.
2. Mind-boggling water and grain waste; meat is an obscenely inefficient food to produce.
3. Greenhouse effect of animal methane.
4. Antibiotic-resistant diseases resulting from promiscuous overuse of antibiotics in factory farms.
5. Massive overuse of growth hormones.

In short, you can't be an environmentalist and eat meat.

As importantly, if you eat meat you are personally responsible for the holocaust of animal torture and slaughter that characterizes the meat industry.

The good news is that going vegetarian not only cleans your conscience with a progressive step for mother earth and its creatures. It also improves your health dramatically; vegetarians have much lower rates of almost every significant chronic disease you can name.

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» RE: Go Vegetarian. Posted by: sunflwrmoonbeam
Bravo, Jim!
Posted by: ZPaul on Feb 12, 2007 1:38 PM   
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Bravo. While I respect those that would launch into vegetarian discourse, I think the most pragmatic thing to do is expose the lies of the industry as this guy has done, and make people aware of how they are being deceived on a daily basis, in ways that can potentially have immediate negative repercussions on health. I am quite certain that a large portion of the population has no intention of becoming vegetarian anytime soon; but I am just as certain that a good number of those people will listen to reason if they are shown clearly and in a convincing manner that they are not getting what they are paying for!

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