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Consider that a typical McDonald's hamburger has meat from somewhere around 1000 cows ...

Then consider the chaos, should Mad Cow actually become widespread ...

And I think this plan begins to make a little more sense.

The real solution, however, is to regulate factory farming, where thousands of cows (or hogs or chickens) are trying to live literally stacked on top of one another, pooping on one another, etc.

But that won't happen.

And Debbie's right --- until bassets show up in the deli case, your sogs are safe.

 

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Lynn, consider that factory farming has a very powerful lobby --- meaning they're not going to change because they got the money to make sure no one will legislate they have to change. And it makes more sense how this came about. It's about CYA more than anything else.

Believe me, I'm not in support of the act. If we were in the same situation as existed only a few years back, where all the meat in a hamburger came from a single cow or all the chicken in a McNugget came from a single chicken (or two), it wouldn't be necessary.

That's not how it is, though. And the powers that be should instead be regulating factory farming --- but hahaha! Like that's going to happen.

Does that make more sense?

I mean, it won't work anyway, but --- well, but it serves to CYA.

 

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Hehe.

 

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My small act of protest is to simply never buy their products --- which also means I don't eat fast food, but hey.

Besides the health and disease concerns, the factory farmers are polluting the rivers and ground water in many places. D**ned if I'm going to pay good money to support that.

So I buy free range, antibiotic-free, hormone free chicken at just a hair more cost than that scary stuff from the factories and --- well, and buffalo. The buffalo is also grass fed, antibiotic-free and hormone free. It's also more calorically dense so it takes much less to fill you up, while also being much lower in fat and cholesterol than beef.

And neither the chicken I buy or the buffalo is shot up with that ridiculous solution, so my dollar is going ONLY to the product itself, instead of water with whatever they feel like putting in that water. Try buying a commercial, factory farmed rump roast and see what's left after cooking it for a few hours in a crock pot or covered pan on the stove --- there will be a little meat and lots and lots of solution.

I know many people who've had to work in factory chicken plants. They can't eat chicken anymore, unless they themselves raise the chicken. They can tell you stories ... Major yuck.

 

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Factory farmed chickens are a whole other ball of wax from farm raised.

The people I know who've worked in chicken factories are all farm people. The reasons they're grossed out and won't eat factory chicken isn't because they got grossed out by the slaughtering. It's because they saw first hand what goes on in these factories, how these chickens are raised, how sick these chickens are and what's in these chickens. It's gross far beyond slaughtering.