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How many want to send lunches with thier kids after this..
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05/22/08, 08:30 AM
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So....
They destroy 143 million pounds of beef because someone shoved a cow with a forklift. They even admitted that there was nothing wrong with the meat.
I agree that animals should be treated humanely, but that was just for show.
PETA needs to be UN-invented.
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05/22/08, 09:02 AM
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PETA needs to be UN-invented.
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I agree! I'm sure some of the folks involved in PETA are probably nice folks, and mean well, but they have no common sense! Using humane treatment with animals is a good and proper thing, but PETA goes way overboard, to the extreme, in their idea of what humane means! They are not balanced in their approach, and they always want to "throw out the baby with the bath water"!
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05/22/08, 09:33 AM
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yep...though I think the practice of disallowing downers into the food supply is a good thing. Then again, just another reason I'm glad to be going this Saturday to pick up my year's supply of beef from a local farmer and local processor.
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05/22/08, 10:33 AM
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All the PETA people are nice folks, even the ones who euthanized and dumped the pets into the dumpster in Va. after telling the owners they would be given homes while at the same time someone in their van was snuffing them. First it will us hunters, then animal farmers, then companion animals, then I suppose they will have established utopia in their minds. Blame Walt, he started it with Bambi.
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PETA doesn't care about the individual animals. Their agenda is an animal free world... I wouldn't put it past a 'true believer' to have staged the whole thing... and they got their wish... a company goes bankrupt. What DO you do with ~100 million pounds of perfectly good meat?
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05/22/08, 11:51 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jross
All the PETA people are nice folks, even the ones who euthanized and dumped the pets into the dumpster in Va. after telling the owners they would be given homes while at the same time someone in their van was snuffing them. First it will us hunters, then animal farmers, then companion animals, then I suppose they will have established utopia in their minds. Blame Walt, he started it with Bambi.
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Good point, although I still believe that there are some folks that are nice, but they are very misguided by the majority extremists who, unfortunately, run that crazy circus!
And the Bambi movie...well, although we have other Disney movies in our collection, that isn't one of them.  My husband wouldn't allow it in the house! To be honest, I don't think my two kids ever did see it, (and they're 26 and 21, now). But, they've seen me tan a deerhide, and watched dad butcher out nice deer, so we had some extra meat to put in the freezer. They've never had a problem with eating venison! They both love animals, but they were raised to understand the balance.
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05/22/08, 12:03 PM
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i'm not sure how this became a PETA topic it was the HMUS that went in.
And even the head offical said
Westland President Steve Mendell testified before Congress in March that some cattle had been illegally slaughtered. A USDA official testified that some probably entered the food supply.
I am not saying more government is a good thing but that these are not the people I want my food coming from or supplying the local school!
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05/22/08, 12:16 PM
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Horses are starving to death but we cant butcher and eat them.....
We grow our own meat but I don't believe in wasting all that meat over this issue. It would have made fine dog food. I've seen poor people eating dog and cat food....
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Originally Posted by MiniMama
They both love animals, but they were raised to understand the balance.
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That's the right way to raise them. 
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We grow our own meat but I don't believe in wasting all that meat over this issue. It would have made fine dog food. I've seen poor people eating dog and cat food....
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The meat that was recalled was grandfathered back a couple of years. Most of it had long since been consumed.
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I think it's about food safety, not PETA, I don't want to eat meat from an animal that is questionable. I just don't think you can trust the people who are at risk of decreased profits to do the right thing. If an animal is down because of an injury recieved while being processed then they need to evaluate their processing system and make it safer (and more humane) for the animal. Rhonda
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SAY What!!
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Originally Posted by mpillow
Horses are starving to death but we cant butcher and eat them.....
We grow our own meat but I don't believe in wasting all that meat over this issue. It would have made fine dog food. I've seen poor people eating dog and cat food....
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I'll kill and eat any of my animals if I so wish! Regularly do chickens and pigs, did a large steer once. If I had a horse and wished to eat it, I would not hesitate, just have to do it myself.. 
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People that need to Eat Their words and leave us Alone!
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05/22/08, 07:15 PM
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I'm a PETA member...People for Eating Tasty Animals!
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05/22/08, 09:34 PM
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There's always room for all of God's creatures.....right next to the mashed potatoes!
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05/23/08, 02:37 AM
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Blame Walt, he started it with Bambi.
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Oddly enough I saw Bambi as a little kid and even had Bambi sheets and such when I was a a little kid but still ended up hunting deer when I was old enough. I don't think I was every personally swayed by a cartoon when it came to animals or anything else. I knew it was a fantasy as compared to the reality of life. Maybe that was because I was a farm kid.
That said I'd never let my own kids watch it or most of the other thinly veiled propaganda that is masked as children's entertainment and that goes double for disney garbage.
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I'm a PETA member...People for Eating Tasty Animals!
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There's always room for all of God's creatures.....right next to the mashed potatoes!
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05/23/08, 10:00 AM
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Another reason to buy local IMO!
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Why would you think that locals never abuse animals or sell questionable products?
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05/23/08, 11:58 AM
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If I remember correctly the beef and by-products from this plant went into a number of products, not just school lunch beef.
Have a horse which is getting up in years or you can no longer afford to feed it? At midnight tie it to the front doorknob of the local PETA president.
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05/23/08, 12:17 PM
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When I worked in the AF Logistics Command Budget Office maybe 20 years ago we had an AF Captain in the office. He and wife rented a garage apartment from a widow. She invited them to Sunday supper one day, which was beef stew over rice. Captain's wife volunteers to clean away the table and do dishes. On the kitchen counter was two cans of Old Roy Beef Dog Food - and she didn't have a dog. He brought his lunch. When he was opening the bag someone in the office would go, "Woof, woof." for a while.
I don't have a dog. I did babysit one for a friend who was traveling out of county for a week. Used Old Roy. I do have to say it did look pretty inviting.
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