[kj] OT: Stop this man

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

PETA are annoying for a number of reasons; I don't get how they can have 
so many attractive naked women doing their bidding. What is their secret?

Still, however, does anyone remember that the US just came out of the 
biggest beef recall n its entire history only a week or so ago?

 From undercover footage taped in slaughterhouses not by PETA -- but by 
the Humane Association, which is not some easy-to-dismiss organization 
like PETA, but fairly mainstream. They had "plants" inside 
slaughterhouses videotaping sick, mentally ill, disabled, retarded, etc. 
cows being brutally forced into salughter pens where their heads were 
bolted with air guns. Some cows were so ill and diseases that they had 
broken legs, could not walk, and had to be lifted via forklifts into the 
salughter pen to meet their deaths. It was really revolting

Amazingly, this disturbing footage got airplay on mainstream media in 
the US which can be very protective of its red blood 'Murican meat 
eating habits. Even meat eaters were outraged. Now the USDA is talking 
about installing cameras in slaughterhouses to monitor how they do stuff.

Easiest answer is to avoid beef or, horror or horrors, avoid meat. USDA 
etc. are treating this like this was some freak accident and normally 
it's only healthy cows that become hamburger, that this was an aberration.

-Oliver

The Exorcist wrote:

> I don't know anything about the validity of the story however it sort 

> of reminds me of PETA a bit.

>

> They go chasing people and shelters. Preach about animal cruelty then 

> kill off thousands of

> animals that were given to them or gathered. (Though I do belive that 

> some of the slaughter

> houses ought to be shutdown, they are down right brutal and disgusting.)

>

> Cheers,

> Me

>