As many previous vegetarian topics circulating the Escapist have shown that people believe we are carnivorous. Raised to at one thing and one thing only... meat (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxA9QOi9vOE). Though we are not. We are omnivores, meaning we have a choice of what to eat. We can gain our nutrients from meat or plant.
While I'm not going to complain about why people should quit eating meat (that is not my choice), I'm going to show how people still have choice in their steaks. You see, the meat industry is like one of those villains people joke about; they kill innocents and babies to churn out a profit. Again, before you pounce on me saying that I'm spreading propaganda, keep on reading.
I feel however that that is one aspect of the meat industry. That is the side that anti-globalization and environment and animal welfare groups attack. There is another side where cows are treated right and are not as damaging to this world and to you as the alternative. Organic fed and free-range cattle. I want to show you how you have a choice and can be more open into actually doing something for the environment and people then supporting this Glukkon run meat giant.
(Also, it helps if you're approached by those radical activists, to tell them how you eat your meat)
Above show problems that cows are likely to get through poor treatment such as caging.
Firstly:
Ask If It Is Local Stock
Cows are major produces of methane gases as well as the fact land is cleared to set down grazing areas for them. To now add on the petrol used to transport the cattle from one place to another seems more and more damaging. Locally bred animals are great for the reasons that the cost of transport is lowered, as well as the fact that they may be culled on the farm or nearby and not across the state.
Secondly:
Make Sure It's Free Range
Every time you eat you have a choice. You have a choice of which company to support. You have a say! Some people don't know that they have an effect to everything they do.
Bovine are animals. Living and breathing. Meat companies don't like to see this but instead see profit through their meat.
Cows can gain many problems such as lameness and foot diseases from being tethered and caged without being able to roam.
Thirdly:
Make Sure It's Natural
Through genetically modified organism and genetic manipulation, we can create fast growing cows and crops. With more livestock, we can make more profit. Of course you would have to forget all of the above and the fact that transportation and the environmental damage would increase majorly. But 'pifft' to all that! Use humans are greedy bastards.
Okay, sarcasm aside for a sec; doesn't it bother you however that the stake you could be consuming isn't... well, normal? I mean, you've have scientists probing that thing to see if people can even eat and AND the fact that some countries have banned it. Now think how you're about to put it in your mouth.
See this image:
See it? That is the symbol of what people should hate.
Why? This is the company that is like those mad scientists on TV. The ones where they both own a huge company making millions of dollars which they use to create an army of mutants. Hear, Monsanto uses recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST) or recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) in their cows to make more milk and meat while sucking the money from them.
The cows given the hormones had increased health problems such as clinical mastitis and lameness.
While the hormones don't survive the process to humans and have not yet caused any health risks, Canada and Europe have banned its use over suspects of having amounts of IGF-1, the drug used in rBGH. IGF-1 is a biologically active hormone associated with breast cancer (correlation shown in premenopausal women), prostate cancer, lung cancer and colon cancers.
In 1998, Phil Angell, Monsanto's director of corporate communications had said, "Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is FDA's job."
Even Fox News was hit by this company creating a lawsuit against two reporters who had uncovered documents from Monsanto, which showed that they failed to turn over health concern information to the FDA about rBST. This company belittles, what many hear would see as a great evil.
Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the European Union banned hormone enhanced milk and many companies fail to store it such as Starbucks and Safeway.
But really? Even if it were safe, is it morally right, and would you want to be supporting this company?
While I'm not going to complain about why people should quit eating meat (that is not my choice), I'm going to show how people still have choice in their steaks. You see, the meat industry is like one of those villains people joke about; they kill innocents and babies to churn out a profit. Again, before you pounce on me saying that I'm spreading propaganda, keep on reading.
I feel however that that is one aspect of the meat industry. That is the side that anti-globalization and environment and animal welfare groups attack. There is another side where cows are treated right and are not as damaging to this world and to you as the alternative. Organic fed and free-range cattle. I want to show you how you have a choice and can be more open into actually doing something for the environment and people then supporting this Glukkon run meat giant.
(Also, it helps if you're approached by those radical activists, to tell them how you eat your meat)
Above show problems that cows are likely to get through poor treatment such as caging.
Firstly:
Ask If It Is Local Stock
Cows are major produces of methane gases as well as the fact land is cleared to set down grazing areas for them. To now add on the petrol used to transport the cattle from one place to another seems more and more damaging. Locally bred animals are great for the reasons that the cost of transport is lowered, as well as the fact that they may be culled on the farm or nearby and not across the state.
Secondly:
Make Sure It's Free Range
Every time you eat you have a choice. You have a choice of which company to support. You have a say! Some people don't know that they have an effect to everything they do.
Bovine are animals. Living and breathing. Meat companies don't like to see this but instead see profit through their meat.
Cows can gain many problems such as lameness and foot diseases from being tethered and caged without being able to roam.
Thirdly:
Make Sure It's Natural
Through genetically modified organism and genetic manipulation, we can create fast growing cows and crops. With more livestock, we can make more profit. Of course you would have to forget all of the above and the fact that transportation and the environmental damage would increase majorly. But 'pifft' to all that! Use humans are greedy bastards.
Okay, sarcasm aside for a sec; doesn't it bother you however that the stake you could be consuming isn't... well, normal? I mean, you've have scientists probing that thing to see if people can even eat and AND the fact that some countries have banned it. Now think how you're about to put it in your mouth.
See this image:
See it? That is the symbol of what people should hate.
Why? This is the company that is like those mad scientists on TV. The ones where they both own a huge company making millions of dollars which they use to create an army of mutants. Hear, Monsanto uses recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST) or recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) in their cows to make more milk and meat while sucking the money from them.
The cows given the hormones had increased health problems such as clinical mastitis and lameness.
While the hormones don't survive the process to humans and have not yet caused any health risks, Canada and Europe have banned its use over suspects of having amounts of IGF-1, the drug used in rBGH. IGF-1 is a biologically active hormone associated with breast cancer (correlation shown in premenopausal women), prostate cancer, lung cancer and colon cancers.
In 1998, Phil Angell, Monsanto's director of corporate communications had said, "Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is FDA's job."
Even Fox News was hit by this company creating a lawsuit against two reporters who had uncovered documents from Monsanto, which showed that they failed to turn over health concern information to the FDA about rBST. This company belittles, what many hear would see as a great evil.
Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the European Union banned hormone enhanced milk and many companies fail to store it such as Starbucks and Safeway.
But really? Even if it were safe, is it morally right, and would you want to be supporting this company?
