For Meat Eaters

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Okay, Please don't accuse me of using scare tactics! I am just sharing (timely) information from a good source! (and this covers that nasty subject of food irradiation, also. I fear for our country!)

http://www.mercola.com/article/irradiated/irradiation_safety.htm

Do You Want Urine, Feces and Pus In Your Beef?

By Joby Warrick

DR. MERCOLA COMMENT:

I thought I would put the comment at the beginning this time to give a proper perspective for the following information. Many of you will be amazed, as I was, at the incredible lack of safety implementations that the USDA is imposing and it is literally killing at least 5,000 people in this country every year and making one-third of our population sick every year.

The reason why this is so important is that these deaths will very shortly be highlighted as the reason we should irradiate our beef. After all, how could anyone deny food irradiation when it could save thousands of peoples lives???

Folks, this is a lie from hell and it will be used to justify food irradiation. If food irradiation becomes widespread, it will contribute to the exponential decline in health that our country is experiencing.

You might say, "How is this possible?"

Well, I had the great privilege of participating in a small group of local activists in which Dr. Epstein explained this in detail. He is one of the most prominent scientists in the country in many aspects of cancer issues. He has extensive literature and documentation, much of which has been previously posted on this site, explaining how food irradiation will create toxic products that humans have never been seen and are clearly implicated in cancer promotion.

Also, see his website, www.preventcancer.com for more information.

The E. coli deaths will be used by the food irradiation industry and many beef industry experts as a justification to continue their factory farming methods. The central issue here is the decline in the hygiene standards in the transport, slaughtering and processing of the animals.

Currently, large percentages of animals are contaminated when their intestines are punctured and stool spills onto the meat that is being processed.

This is where the problem lies, NOT in proper cooking. If a restaurant receives meat that is filled with stool they would have to incinerate the meat to destroy the amount of E. coli present. The problem is NOT with the cooking of the beef or the restaurants, it is primarily with the slaughterhouses and the USDA that is not properly enforcing the rules.

Will food irradiation work? If done properly, it will absolutely work. But, again, the answer is NOT to expose your food to radiation to kill bugs that are present because the food was not slaughtered properly.

The food irradiation industry will very likely be changing the term "irradiation" to "cold pasteurization" very shortly, in order to give off a better public perception.

Irradiation is not a panacea to killing food-borne pathogens. It cannot kill viruses, such as hepatitis and Norwalk virus. And, while irradiation does kill certain harmful microorganisms, it does nothing to remove the feces, urine and pus that often sullies meat in the slaughterhouse.

Consumers do not want to eat filth, whether it's been irradiated or not. Americans demand and deserve fresh, wholesome, safe food that has been grown and processed in clean environments.

The bottom line is that irradiation will not make food cleaner. It merely masks unhygienic slaughtering and processing practices, while corrupting nutritional integrity, big time.

Beef-Inspection Failures Let In a Deadly Microbe

Nearly a century after Upton Sinclair exposed the scandal of America's slaughterhouses in his novel "The Jungle," some of the nation's largest meatpacking plants still fail to meet federal inspection guidelines to produce meat free of disease-carrying filth, an investigation by The Washington Post and Dateline NBC has found.

U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors who patrol the nation's 6,000 meatpacking plants today are armed with more modern tools and tougher standards than ever. But the government's watchdog agency often has lacked the legal muscle and political will to address serious safety threats. It cannot impose civil fines or recall meat even when its inspectors see problems that could lead to outbreaks.

In a Milwaukee case, one of the nation's largest, most modern meatpacking plants - Excel Corp.'s Fort , Colo., facility - was cited 26 times over a 10-month period before someone died as a result of letting feces contaminate meat, documents show. Despite new government controls on bacteria launched three years ago, the plant shipped out beef tainted with E. coli on at least four occasions.....(Please follow link for the rest of the article!)__________________________________________________