| Old Codger 2008-03-30, 9:25 am |
| America’s meatheads wise up
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/?storyID=5890
Spring brings terrific news for the farm animals of America, a
category of beast subjected to increasingly hellish conditions.
Burger King, second only to MickyD's, has announced that it will start
buying pork and eggs from suppliers who do not confine their animals
to cages.
This is huge. The most carnivorous humans are shocked by American
'industrial' farming. A pig, as smart as a dog, spends its life as a
protein-converter immobile in a cage in which even the floor consists
of bars because dollars are saved with easier flows of slurry.
Such slurry contaminated the spinach which spread last year's e-coli
outbreak. Sorry to spoil your lunch, but this is what the Burger King
reform is all about.
The Humane Society hailed an "important trigger", but the milk of
human kindness has nothing to do
Upstate Downstate
As Burger King insists its pork must come from uncaged animals, the US
realises it’s been poisoning itself
with it. Walt Disney created the Bambi view of nature. But he forgot
to mention the link with the cellophane wrap at the butcher.
Americans are realising that they are being poisoned. It is not just
hormone-addled, pesticide-poisoned, karma-outraged meat, but all that
junk spun from corn-syrup too. It is a farm system which has gone
further even than Britain's mad-cow spasm, and which horrifies the
French.
Vince in the Woodstock Meat Market scoffed at me when I first asked
him for 'grass-raised' beef. Now, he sells nothing else because
Woodstockers won't buy anything else, even at double the old price.
What started with the fancy-pants elites of New York's Hudson Valley
and health-freaks in Los Angeles is spreading through the market. We
will all be better off for leaving pigs to follow their destiny like
movie-star Babe, and cows on the grass to jump over the moon.
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