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Some Informations about Poultry Inspection Policy MoJo


Buffalo grazing on rangeland in Crook County, ...

Buffalo grazing on rangeland in Crook County, Wyoming. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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USDA Ruffles Feathers With New Poultry Inspection Policy

The Obama administration is on the verge of dramatically scaling back the US Department of Agriculture‘s (USDA) oversight of the nation’s largest chicken and turkey slaughterhouses—while also allowing companies to speed up their kill lines.

After the idea was floated last year, it was met by massive pushback from food-safety and worker advocates, who argued that the combination of more speed and fewer inspectors would lead to dangerous conditions for both consumers and workers.

According to a 2012 statement, the department expects to save $90 million over three years by firing inspectors. Meanwhile, the USDA calculates that by increasing kill line speeds, the plan will save the poultry industry more than eight times as much, or $256.6 million each year.  [READ MORE]

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/04/usda-inspectors-poultry-kill-lines-chicken

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New Case of Mad Cow Found in California (poor cows)


Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), H&E

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), H&E (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

New Case of Mad Cow Found in California AprNew Case of Mad Cow Found in California April 24, 2012. “

They’re here!” -

Heather O’Rourke, Poltergeist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9aENGodu5A

Let’s assume for the moment that this was not a California Happy Cow. Happy Cows, as you know, are disease-free, or so we are told by USDA. We are also being told that meat and milk are safe to eat, so that sure must be a relief to American consumers. Before being sent to the rendering facility where her body would have been ground into pet food for companion cats and companion dogs, how much milk over how many years did yesterday’s Mad Cow provide for California boys and girls? A cow filters through her udder 10,000 liters of pus, proteins, & dead white blood cells each day. See: http://www.notmilk.com/m.html One cannot donate blood if he or she has spent more than two weeks in England, home of the original Mad Cow Disease outbreak. If one cannot donate blood because the infectious mad cow disease protein (Prion) can be passed in the blood; AND; If Mad Cow Disease sometimes has a 40 year incubation period; AND; Since Mad Cows are clearly in our milking herd before their lethal diseases are detected; THEN; Do you still lack the wisdom and continue to drink milk or eat concentrated dairy cheeses, butter, and ice cream from animals you know to be diseased? BUT; The good news is twofold. First, dairy is delicious. Second, once infected with the human form of Mad Cow Disease, death comes rapidly. The bad news? There is no bad news. Mad Cow Disease can save our Social Security and pension funds and give America a financially strong future. Robert Cohen http://www.notmilk.com il 24, 2012. “They’re here!” – Heather O’Rourke, Poltergeist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9aENGodu5A Let’s assume for the moment that this was not a California Happy Cow. Happy Cows, as you know, are disease-free, or so we are told by USDA. We are also being told that meat and milk are safe to eat, so that sure must be a relief to American consumers. Before being sent to the rendering facility where her body would have been ground into pet food for companion cats and companion dogs, how much milk over how many years did yesterday’s Mad Cow provide for California boys and girls? A cow filters through her udder 10,000 liters of pus, proteins, & dead white blood cells each day. See: http://www.notmilk.com/m.html One cannot donate blood if he or she has spent more than two weeks in England, home of the original Mad Cow Disease outbreak. If one cannot donate blood because the infectious mad cow disease protein (Prion) can be passed in the blood; AND; If Mad Cow Disease sometimes has a 40 year incubation period; AND; Since Mad Cows are clearly in our milking herd before their lethal diseases are detected; THEN; Do you still lack the wisdom and continue to drink milk or eat concentrated dairy cheeses, butter, and ice cream from animals you know to be diseased? BUT; The good news is twofold. First, dairy is delicious. Second, once infected with the human form of Mad Cow Disease, death comes rapidly. The bad news? There is no bad news. Mad Cow Disease can save our Social Security and pension funds and give America a financially strong future. Robert Cohen http://www.notmilk.com

How Much Milk is Produced by Factory Dairy Farms?


How Much Milk is Produced by Factory Dairy Farms?

There was a time that dairy farms resembled the
tranquil scenes depicted on milk cartons.

This week (March 1, 2012), the United States
Department of Agriculture (USDA) released
a report “Farms, Land in Farms, and Livestock
Operations, 2011 Summary” showing that more
than half of the United States milk supply
was produced on farms with 1,000 or more cows.

USDA counted 60,0000 dairy farms in 2011, and
there were 1,750 milking more than 1,000 cows.
Less than three percent of America’s dairies
produce more than 50 percent of our milk.

What other than milk do such farms produce?

A typical 1600 pound Holstein cow produces
42,200 pounds of waste each year. That volume
represents 30,400 pounds of solid waste and
12,800 pounds of urine. Multiply that by
1,000, and the resulting bovine body waste
from such a farm is equal to 42 million pounds,
an amount equal to the waste produced by a city of
500,000 humans.

Human urine is sanitized in waste treatment plants.
Cow waste enters the ground and finds its way to
underground reservoirs or into streams.

As for the solid waste, watch where you step.

On factory farms, urine and feces are mixed and stored
in lakes and dams and then sprayed as fertilizer on
growing fruits and vegetables which end up in supermarkets.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Surprising Changes in Per Capita American Food Consumption


 
Public domain photograph of various meats. (Be...

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Surprising Changes in Per Capita American Food Consumption

“It is not government’s job to mandate responsibility on
our behalf. We have the intelligence and good sense to
make wise consumption choices for ourselves and our
children. It is up to us to do what is best for our
health and our children’s health.
- Michael Crapo (U.S. Senator from Idaho)

What’s happened to meat and dairy consumption
during the 2-decade period between 1990 and 2010?

According to the United States Department of
Agriculture (USDA):

http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/FoodConsumption/

Per capita consumption of red meat dropped from
119.4 pounds to 111.7 pounds.

Per capita consumption of chicken increased from
60.6 pounds to 80.0 pounds.

Per capita consumption of liquid milk dropped from
233.3 pounds to 203.4 pounds.

Per capita consumption of cheese rose from
38 pounds to 43.6 pounds.

Bad publicity and real science about milk most
certainly contributed to the decline, but consumers
have been scared into eating additional cheese by
those people who market and promote dairy products
by using calcium scare tactics.

What a mistake! I should have simultaneously become the
UnCheeseman at the same time I became the NotMilkman.

More Bad News For the Animal Rights Movement (& Chickens)

Clearly, the animal rights movement is not waging
a very effective campaign. After first becoming involved
in the AR movement in 1995, I’ve noted how AR groups
have focused upon the plight of abused chickens.

From 1995 until 2000, activists and lobbyists have
increased their altruistic efforts in creating greater
public awareness of the horrible nature in which
chickens live and die. How they are de-beaked. How they
are confined. How they are killed without first being
stunned. By promoting compassionate slaughter laws,
AR organizations have relieved the guilt of chicken
eaters, who now enjoy eating more chicken by supposedly
doing so compassionately.

While red meat consumption has declined by 6.54 percent,
chicken consumption has increased by 32.3 percent!
Overall, the consumption of red meat and chicken
resulted in a combined increase over the past 20
years from 180 pounds per person to 191.7 pounds
per person. That represents a 6.5 percent increase.

Since ten pounds of milk are required to produce one
pound of hard cheese, the dairy “influence” has increased
from 613.3 pounds of liquid milk plus the milk required to
produce the cheese to a whopping 639.4 pounds per person
which represents an actual 4.25 percent increase.

As for the animal rights movement, ask yourself why it is
that total meat and chicken consumption and total dairy
and cheese consumption have increased during the past
20 years? Are the dollars altruistic people donate to
animal rights groups being wasted by huge AR salaries
and groups that make animal welfare their priority?
Larger cages and easier ways for animals to die show
results which A.R. groups distort. The proof is in the
Yorkshire pudding…

(Note: Yorkshire pudding is made with milk, eggs,
and fat drippings from the roasted beast.)

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Killing & Eating Nonambulatory Farm Animals


Datum: Fr, 30 Sept 2011 9:18 am
 

Killing & Eating Nonambulatory Farm Animals

“Because animals are property, we consider as ‘humane treatment’
that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.”
- Gary Francione

Why do most companion animals seem to die from cancer?
Perhaps it is because of that diseased flesh unfit for
human consumption we call dog food.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned the slaughter
of diseased and infirm cows for human consumption. Many
of these creatures have visible tumors growing from their
bodies. Many of these creatures just fall down and never
again get up.

It is no wonder that cows milked three times per day
only live for 35 months after they birth their first
calf. In order to continuously produce their 24
quarts of calcium-rich milk, they live their lives in
excruciating pain after their bones begin to melt
calcium into their blood which is then reabsorbed by
udders which pass that essential mineral into their milk.
These are continuously stressed creatures. We swallow
and digest their pain.

So, cows become “downers”. There are other reasons cows
go down and cannot stand. Such behavior is often a sign
of a prion disease called bovine spongiform encephalitis,
otherwise known as BSE or Mad Cow Disease. By eating diseased
flesh from these infected animals, or by drinking their
infected body fluids, humans sometimes get a brain-wasting
disease called Cruetzfeld-Jacob Disease, or CJD. SEE:

http//www.notmilk.com/m.html

All of the above has been the introduction to a page 587
column from the September 25, 2011 issue of Hoard’s Dairyman,
the national dairy farm magazine.

The entire story:

“California’s nonambulatory law will be reviewed by the
U.S. Supreme Court. The law bans all nonambulatory
livestock from being slaughtered in the state if the animals
are being processed for food. It was passed in the wake
of the Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. scandal in Chino, Calif.

“Hallmark illegally slaughtered nonambulatory cattle and
sold the beef into commerce. Then, a tape of the act was
leaked onto YouTube. USDA banned the slaughter of all
nonambulatory cattle for processing into the food supply.

“The National Meat Association (NMA) filed the original
lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District
of California charging that the law violated the Federal
Meat Inspection Act. The high Court has scheduled the appeal
for its 2011-2012 term which begins October 4th.”

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The extremely disturbing above-referenced video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrxvxewC-gA

The meat and dairy producers have developed a brilliant
strategy and creative solution to this problem. They
have successfully lobbied many state legislative bodies
which have since enacted laws making it a felony crime
for animal rights “terrorists” to film animal abuse.

High-priced lawyers will argue for the dairy and
cattlemen. Who will argue for the cows?

United States Supreme Court Contact Information:

http://www.supremecourt.gov/contact/contactus.aspx

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com