[kj] OT: Stop this man

[Brendan]

FREEBIRD!

Oh dear another in-joke (Bill Hicks fans will know I'm talking about the
stupid redneck hecklers he used to hate :)


> 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

>>

>

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