| Hopefully this article will help you to truly begin to | | | | meat as well which we'll cover shortly. |
| understand why it's not just a "less healthy" food, | | | | The speed of the cattle line not only producers a |
| but something so terrible, so disgusting, and so | | | | danger to the workers themselves, but it causes |
| horrible that you are far better off eating nothing at | | | | them to make a much higher percentage of mistakes |
| all than to consume fast food. If most people truly | | | | in the cutting of the meat itself. What this means is |
| knew what it is that they're putting into their bodies | | | | that, because these workers are being forced to do |
| when they go up to that drive through window and | | | | the same motion up to 10,000 times per day, they |
| place their order, surely the vast majority would | | | | can and do make mistakes and end up cutting the |
| rarely if ever consume it again. | | | | wrong part of the animals. |
| Certainly anyone who is interested in overcoming | | | | Instead of cutting the meat parts that are to be |
| illness and disease and attaining higher levels of health | | | | sold, they can end up hitting the bowels which often |
| and internal purity must vastly limit or completely | | | | causes a "mixing" of the animals waste to be mixed |
| eliminate their consumption of these so called foods. | | | | in with the meat that is eventually sold to restraints |
| So just what is in fast foods today and why is it | | | | and the public. This is a main source of various E-coli |
| really so bad for you? Come along as we cover | | | | outbreaks that we hear about on the news from |
| some main reasons for such a strong stance against | | | | time to time. How many more people get sick from |
| fast foods and just why they are to be avoided at | | | | such "food" but never report it? |
| all cost. Be warned that some of this information | | | | Animal Cruelty |
| may be quite disturbing to some readers. | | | | With the terrible and inhumane way in which the |
| Fast Food Nation | | | | animals themselves are treated which causes the |
| In 2002, author Eric Schlosser, a correspondent for | | | | meat to lose any of it's health benefits, coupled with |
| the Atlantic Herald, came out with a ground breaking | | | | the contamination of the meat itself during |
| book called "Fast Food Nation" which takes us | | | | processing, you now have a situation where this |
| through a sordid maze of deception, cover up, lies, | | | | meat is not only providing very little nutrition or |
| fraud and both animal and human cruelty that has | | | | bio-energy, but it can be quite dangerous and deadly. |
| unfortunately become all too common in the meat | | | | "Every day in the United States, roughly 200,000 |
| packing industry today. This was even turned into a | | | | people are sickened by a food borne disease, 900 |
| 2006 movie release of the same name. | | | | are hospitalized and fourteen die. According to the |
| If you only saw the movie, then you missed virtually | | | | CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), |
| all of the "meat and potatoes" of this story because | | | | more than a quarter of the American population |
| the movie was but a pale shadow of the mind | | | | suffers a bout of food poisoning each year. Most of |
| blowing information contained in the book. | | | | these cases are never reported to authorities or |
| The movie mostly focused on the plight of the | | | | properly diagnosed" - Fast Food Nation, page 195 |
| immigrant laborers who work in the meat packing | | | | Not only are these animals often killed while they're in |
| plants. These plants are the main suppliers of the | | | | poor health, as a recent investigative film by the |
| meat, chicken and other foodstuffs sold in the fast | | | | human society showed that even animals that are |
| food industry. | | | | too sick or weak to walk are being picked up by |
| The book covers every aspect of the fast food | | | | forklifts and led to the slaughter anyway. This is |
| industry. From the truly horrible and inhumane | | | | against current animal welfare policies but is rarely |
| conditions of the animals themselves from birth till | | | | enforced due to a loophole in the laws. |
| death, to the often slave like conditions of the plants | | | | Aside from the obvious reasons for animals to be |
| where the mostly immigrant and poor workers toil in | | | | sick and weak such as hormone injections and |
| 12 hour shifts or longer each day and more. | | | | cramped feedlots which stresses animals out just as |
| Fast Food nation is a thoroughly well researched | | | | it does humans, there are other more stomach |
| book that has won worldwide praise for its author | | | | churning reasons for their ill health. |
| Eric Shlosser. Eric was able to gain access to feed | | | | The animals are not only unhealthy due to how |
| lots, slaughter houses and even the J.R. Simplot plant | | | | they're treated in terms of actual abuse or crowded |
| in Aberdeen, Idaho where millions upon millions of | | | | and stressed conditions, but what they're being fed is |
| French fries are made on a daily basis. The majority | | | | absolutely disgusting a crime against nature itself. |
| of which are mostly destined for area McDonald`s | | | | These cattle are ruminants, meaning that they're |
| restaurants. | | | | designed to eat grass and perhaps some grain. They |
| The fast food industry came out in strong protest | | | | have four stomachs because they're meant to eats |
| against his book saying that they don't agree with his | | | | things with high cellulose content. |
| conclusions. At the same time when asked if there | | | | So what is it that these animals are being fed that |
| were any errors in the book the same industry said | | | | further contributes to their being in such ill health and |
| "no" that they could not find any errors in his facts | | | | overweight? Until 1997, about 75% of the cattle in |
| or figures at all. | | | | the US were being fed livestock wastes, the |
| The Processing Line | | | | rendered remains of dead sheep and cattle. They |
| Twenty years ago the standard number of cattle | | | | were also fed millions of dead pets from animal |
| processed per hour in a typical meat packing plant | | | | shelters. The FDA banned such practices after |
| was 175. The older meatpacking plants in Chicago | | | | evidence from Great Britain suggested that this might |
| slaughtered about 50 per hour. Today the workers at | | | | be responsible for a widespread outbreak of bovine |
| many plants are required to kill up to 400 cattle per | | | | spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) also known as |
| hour. At the rate worker injuries are all too common | | | | "mad cow disease" |
| as the workers stand close together in one spot for | | | | However, current FDA regulations do allow dead pigs |
| hours a day performing the same task over and over | | | | and horses to be turned into cattle feed, along with |
| again. Mostly this involves swinging a large sharp knife | | | | dead poultry too. They also allow the poultry to be |
| over and over again to carve up the animal into | | | | fed to dead cattle. Other constituents of cattle feed |
| smaller pieces for processing. Mistakes and injuries to | | | | include cattle blood, metal fragments and sawdust. |
| other workers are common as they struggle to keep | | | | Is it any wonder then that these poor animals are |
| up with the fast pace of the line in constant fear of | | | | sick and weak and some are unable to even walk to |
| falling behind or being fired. | | | | their own slaughter? |
| The pace of the line that these workers are forced | | | | Many such animals go to the slaughter with their |
| to work at is a major cause of many serious injuries | | | | bodies wracked with tumors, viruses, infections and |
| to workers and has even led to several deaths. How | | | | some reports indicate that a majority of them have |
| do these workers die exactly...well this is where the | | | | cancer throughout their bodies. Meat packers are |
| story gets downright grizzly. Many times these | | | | taught how to cut around the cancers and tumors to |
| workers are near the meat grinders when some get | | | | avoid infecting the meat itself. But this means that |
| limbs caught in them or simply fall into the larger | | | | even the "uninfected" parts are so weakened of |
| machines completely. By the time the machine can be | | | | nutrients, oxygen, energy and life force that it is still |
| shut down, there is nothing of the worker left to | | | | unfit for human consumption. |
| recover. | | | | Because of their low nutrient content, higher levels of |
| That means that along with the meat from the | | | | diseased tissues, bacteria, weak and impure |
| cattle, there is at times, human meat mixed in with | | | | electromagnetic and life force energies along with |
| the animal meat itself. Fortunately it doesn't occur all | | | | little to no exercise and not being allowed to eat the |
| that often, but the author is surely not taking any | | | | grasses that they are designed to eat and other |
| chances on putting such meat into his body or that | | | | reasons constitute why these animals are unfit for |
| of his family and I strongly suggest that you don't | | | | human consumption and a horrible choice of food to |
| either. There are other things mixed into with the | | | | be putting into your body. |