: : I'm not a fan of beef myself, but people are free to pick their poison. My children are not allowed to eat beef from restraunts. To each his own. It is not right to dislike a fast food place just because it's main dish is cow flesh. I don't eat beef, but I really don't give a damn who does. That's their own buisness.I was an Occupational Nurse at a St. Louis, MO slaughter house. I discovered that the oldest non-productive milk cows, cows with bruises, rodeo bulls with terrible traumatic injuries, and animals that could not be used for breeding, were the animals used for "ground beef" in hamburger for shipment to "fast food joints" and prepackaged hamburger in grocery chains.
When I had a tour of the plant I became semi-vegetarian, eating only prime meat I cook myself, and very little of that as the costs are
prohibitive and my memories quite vivid. Maggi
: Not exactly, chum. It involves another thinking, feeling being, namely, the cow which has her skull smashed in and her throat cut.
: That's the problem here -- for those who care about cruelty to animals, that is.
The problem here is that often the gun that is suppose to "stun" the animal often misfires, so the creature is strung up by its achilles tendon and is quite aware it is bleeding to death as it struggles for freedom in its last moments.
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