OK, I’m lately hearing about the Beef Protests in Korea amid concerns about the safety of imported beef from the USA and I keep thinking good for them.
I never understood why the whole “mad cow scare” was so unmanageble. This so-called disease results directly from factory farming unnatural practices whereby they feed cows rendered animal parts (such as sheep and even sometimes other cows). Cows are herbivores – they graze on grass in the wild.
Some idiot came up with the idea of saving money by feeding them waste products (and extra protein/fat) and then it backfires and the industry just shrugs and says rhetorically, “what can we do?” –Um, you could let the cows eat grass and stop feeding them unnatural crap. Duh.
And people scared of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (the human form of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy aka “Mad Cow Disease”) could just, I dunno, stop eating beef, or at least stop eating factory-farmed beef.
The whole agribusiness factory farming thing is so messed up (with all the hormones, animal cruelty, pollution and hazardous working conditions) it infuriates me, especially when they get government subsidies (via the Farm Bill).
It’s almost enough to make you go vegetarian. 😉
