Comments on: Mad Cow Update http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/12/11/50/mad-cow-update/ Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:58:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: votermom http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/12/11/50/mad-cow-update/#comment-143252 votermom Tue, 13 May 2008 13:12:22 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24810#comment-143252 Zuzu, small fish (sardines, anchovies, etc) are the safest in terms of mercury. Zuzu, small fish (sardines, anchovies, etc) are the safest in terms of mercury.

]]> By: Macjazz http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/12/11/50/mad-cow-update/#comment-143236 Macjazz Tue, 13 May 2008 01:25:33 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24810#comment-143236 "Beef ... it's what's for dinn...ack! phhhttt ... grrglll ... " “Beef … it’s what’s for dinn…ack! phhhttt … grrglll … “

]]> By: zuzu http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/12/11/50/mad-cow-update/#comment-143234 zuzu Tue, 13 May 2008 00:59:44 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24810#comment-143234 This is one reason I stopped eating animal products other than fish. There are other reasons as well, but most of them have to do with factory-farming conditions which are economically devastating to small farmers, are hard on workers as well as animals, and questionable practices such as the routine administering of antibiotics and growth hormone to cattle that are raised on corn even though their bodies can't digest it, simply because corn is heavily subsidized. And I'm thinking about dispensing with the fish as well, what with the mercury levels. There are other options, such as joining a CSA, but I haven't found any that have pickup times and locations that are convenient for me. And I can't keep my own chickens on the fire escape. This is one reason I stopped eating animal products other than fish. There are other reasons as well, but most of them have to do with factory-farming conditions which are economically devastating to small farmers, are hard on workers as well as animals, and questionable practices such as the routine administering of antibiotics and growth hormone to cattle that are raised on corn even though their bodies can’t digest it, simply because corn is heavily subsidized.

And I’m thinking about dispensing with the fish as well, what with the mercury levels.

There are other options, such as joining a CSA, but I haven’t found any that have pickup times and locations that are convenient for me. And I can’t keep my own chickens on the fire escape.

]]> By: Ron http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/12/11/50/mad-cow-update/#comment-143229 Ron Mon, 12 May 2008 23:21:27 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24810#comment-143229 I love the line about meat packer fears, "Increased testing would raise the price of meat by a few cents per pound…" Wait till they get a load of what higher feed and gasoline prices do to a pound of beef! Where in the rethug platitudes about all-powerful market forces does government determine what the market is? Let Market Forces work? My ass. I love the line about meat packer fears, “Increased testing would raise the price of meat by a few cents per pound…” Wait till they get a load of what higher feed and gasoline prices do to a pound of beef!

Where in the rethug platitudes about all-powerful market forces does government determine what the market is? Let Market Forces work? My ass.

]]> By: votermom http://susiemadrak.com/2008/05/12/11/50/mad-cow-update/#comment-143220 votermom Mon, 12 May 2008 17:42:14 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/?p=24810#comment-143220 Do you know the American Red Cross won't take blood from people from some countries (like Ireland) because they might have been exposed to mad cow disease? And yet we are all probably already exposed also. Do you know the American Red Cross won’t take blood from people from some countries (like Ireland) because they might have been exposed to mad cow disease? And yet we are all probably already exposed also.

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