Stuart Jansen wrote: > If you think things are bad now, you really should have been around for > the 1900s. Today, the government allows vanishingly small amount of rat > feces in food. That's still better than things a hundred years ago when > your Durham's Pure Leaf Lard might have contained boiled human remains. >
Yeah, it's much better now. Today, your meat is soaked in ammonia before it gets to the grocery store. That way, there's no bacteria in it. Phew. Oh, and the cows are pumped with antibiotics to keep them alive long enough to slaughter them. Otherwise, they would die months too early due to the knee-deep manure they live in and their high corn diet. And since their legs are barely strong enough to hold up their artificially fattened bodies, they spend much of their time lying in the crap. Sweet sweet beef. I had a burger yesterday, and it was delicious. Are things really better now? Or just different? Have we traded rat droppings and disease for harmful chemicals and obesity? --Dave /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
