Bush's deregulation of this and other industries will make us all healthier Americans.
No gasoline: forced to walk, we'll lose weight.
No beef: forced to eat home grown vegetables, IF we are allowed the seeds.
No Government: we're forced to stamped the Bastille, and we'll all learn French.
No heating oil in winter: we'll wear animal skins and celebrate the return to living like caveman and nothing will save us, not even Hillbama.
Bush's deregulation of this and other industries will make us all healthier Americans.
No gasoline: forced to walk, we'll lose weight.
No beef: forced to eat home grown vegetables, IF we are allowed the seeds.
No Government: we're forced to stampede the Bastille, and we'll all learn French.
No heating oil in winter: we'll wear animal skins and celebrate the return to living like caveman and nothing will save us, not even Hillbama.
Paradox, it's worse than what you've pointed out. Recommend that everybody read: "The Omnivore's Dilemma." I also can't help postulating that animals raised in factory conditions must be releasing stress hormones into their bodies. Can it be good for us to eat such meat? Have we become so omnivorous that we can't treat our food animals with respect, allow them to have a decent life before being harvested? Milk cows penned in and shot full of chemicals produce for less than five years (and then get turned into hamburgers). Milk cows living on a non-factory farm produce for more than ten years.
Posted by Marie at October 7, 2007 09:34 AMWhen I was a carnivorous rug-rat the hamburgers were supplemented with bone chips and the occasional roofing nail.
Posted by TIKI AL at October 7, 2007 09:45 AMTIKI, well, at least the roofing nails provide a bit of iron...
Posted by iamcoyote at October 7, 2007 09:58 AMIf I remember correctly the radio the other day was telling me about steroids (or other pharmaceutical) given to milk cows to make them produce more, and it was having an adverse affect on children, especially teenage girls.
Posted by Sharon at October 7, 2007 10:35 AMThanks (we had two boxes of the frozen Topps burgers in our freezer) and I just made a batch of meatballs and sausage for supper.....sigh.
If only people had a conscience about what they were doing and stopped putting greed and profits ahead of everything else. Upton Sinclair would be proud.
Posted by emal at October 7, 2007 11:32 AMThank god.....I am a vegetarian!
Posted by mp at October 7, 2007 11:45 AMBush's deregulation of this and other industries will make us all healthier Americans.
When did he deregulate the beef industry? News to me.
And now it's Sam's Angus Burgers with the dates of August 26 through February 28, 2008. I buy these for my Mom constantly because she loves them.
Oh well, what's a few deaths as long as they make more money.
Posted by Judith at October 7, 2007 02:34 PMJarJar jj needs to eat more hamburgers.
mp - being a vegetarian doesn't protect you from companies which also produce contaminated vegetables
welcome to the Age of Bush, where you can be a good Republican or a good American but you can't be both
Posted by gay veteran at October 8, 2007 05:54 AMIf I remember correctly the radio the other day was telling me about steroids (or other pharmaceutical) given to milk cows to make them produce more, and it was having an adverse affect on children, especially teenage girls.
Posted by Sharon at October 7, 2007 10:35 AM
It has been reported that bovine growth hormones in milk have contributed to teenage girls going through puberty at an earlier age.
But, I guess that's okay, because, after all, the beef industry has not been deregulated. So there should be an investigation into increased use of rBHG in cattle feed by the USDA, right?
Funny how, even though their supposedly is some sort of regulating body that would look into this, for some strange reason they won't.
Also funny how, even though the government is supposedly inspecting meat thoroughly, the USDA refuses to let a company voluntarily test all of its meat for mad cow because it might make the rest of the industry look bad.
So it appears that you don't have to deregulate the beef industry. All you have to do is put a bunch of Reich wing corpo-weasels in charge of the testing process, and choose not to do the required testing. Funny how that works...
Posted by (: Tom :) at October 8, 2007 07:16 AMYou forgot to mention the increase in breast and prostate cancer due to steroid use in our food. This , of course, is suppressed by much of the medical community.
Posted by margaret harnish md at October 10, 2007 05:54 AM