Sue - We each go our merry little way, and eat what we want to. Jan C. -----Original Message----- From: Sue & Bobby Bates <bsbates@netease.net> To: jcurtis <jcurtis@redrock.net>; BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com <BLACKSHEEP-CHAT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, May 11, 2002 10:19 PM Subject: Re: Beef & chicken >"jcurtis" <jcurtis@redrock.net> wrote.... >>... Chickens are dirty little things, < > Yes, aside from their proclivity of eating manure. So? > >>...and there's a pic. of cattle feedlot in Colorado, that pens >100,000 cattle for slaughter. It talks about the risk of fecal >contamination, and disease among large-scale agriculture. >> So I have differ with you on the selection process of meat being >raised commercially for us to eat. < > Feel free, Jan. If I say 'white' you'll say 'black' anyway. > BUT, my point had nothing to do with commercial food selection or >contamination. I was talking about **empathy for any living thing >that is killed or destroyed and left to rot** Specifically: > > As >a matter of fact, I DO say the same thing for them but the difference >is that they have been raised for that express purpose and not just >slaughtered in their innocence and left laying there.<< Period. > >> Those 100,000 cattle are covered in mud, shit, etc. Then they haul >them in for slaughter, and maybe they aren't very >> careful, and hair, microbes, bacteria, etc. cling to the final meat >product, e.g., hamburger.< > All the more reason to be very careful about how we prepare our >food, making certain that it is cooked at times and temperatures >sufficiently high so as to destroy any contamination during the >slaughter. The slaughter of food animals is not a particularly >sterile process anyway with all of the envisceration of the entrails >and their contents if you think about it. > So, bon apetite and end of discussion. Geez....... >Best, >SueB > > >