for those of you who read the mad cow thread last night...

[undergroundpanther]

Here is the original thread for those who don't know
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3882536

And DO visit Unknown News: Great site check 'em out!
http://www.unknownnews.net/

Now for the post...
I wrote this on Unknown News a good while ago.
Thought ya'll might like it..Given the recent court ruling banning testing...

FUCK the Beef Industry
by Underground Panther in the Sky

Feb. 3, 2004

I don't give a shit about the beef industry and their fucking livelihoods. They demonstrated they sure don't give a shit about MY life or my livelihood.

Don't feed cows meat or meat by-products. They are PLANT eaters. This is what cows are -- they are not predators. Ever see a cow with FANGS or claws? I never have. Ever see herds of cows hunt and bring home bleeding prey to feed the herd's calves? I never have.

The difference between meat eating animals and plant eaters is taught at the level of basic elementary school science class, folks. Duh. The beef industry cannot claim ignorance here. And frankly, any opinion I see from any person who thinks it's ok to endanger people, potentially ruin the food supply that feeds all of us, for profits not only is an evil son-of-a bitch and probably a coward and sell-out sicko, they are also untrustworthy and unworthy to be called a human being.

I never approved of the beef industry’s practices, when I discovered what they were, and I know no sane person would if they knew. That is why the Cattlemen’s Association had a temper tantrum when Oprah exposed those insane feeding practices.

Greed has made the beef industry incompetent, unworthy, and incapable of handling cows in a safe manner. The USDA is incapable of inspecting meat because they are bribed or simply shills of the beef industry who have too many "friends" in the beef industry scratching their backs to bust a "brother" on the "inside".

The Beef industry’s feed practices prove to me they know nothing about cows. And that is what cattlemen are scared to hear -- that they fucked up. The day cattle ranchers actually thought it was OK to feed an herbivore meat products, chicken house waste, and roadkill fat -- forcing cows to be cannibals -- is the day the ENTIRE beef industry should have been shut the fuck down and the industry "leaders" put away in the loony bin for being nuts.

The sooner people stop trusting corporations, the sooner they stop believing corporations care about public safety or well-being, the better. The sooner the public outs, discredits and IGNORES corporate shills posing as "scientists" and understands a shill or bribe cannot be trusted to speak honestly about the failures, faults, and corruption of any corporation that pays them or bribes them, the better. The sooner the public realizes all corporations care about is their profits, public appearances, and money, the better.

Some business practices are so unspeakable, so evil, it boggles the mind. And the evilness of it all is why business tells the lies, why P.R. firms exist to paint evil as good, why secrets are kept secrets, and why the truth is obscured and just not said to the public. It's because they KNOW they are doing wrong.

Some business practices that companies do are nuts, and so cheap greedy people conspire to "normalize" bad business practices behind closed doors. This is nothing but pure sickness.

Tell me, did you figure out how to normalize away a gag reflex yet?

What some people do in the name of money is so wrong, so unnecessary, so friggin INSANE, it would be a GOOD thing for the sake of our own humanity to force all these inhuman bastards to tell the truth, to clean up their mess, and to live the rest of their lives as prisoners, and their families poor so that they will NEVER be able to gather the "capital" to organize others to produce anything for other people again.

Let the greedy be shamed. Let them pay for their misdeeds. Let them be held accountable for what they do. Let them all self-destruct -- because we know they are corrupt to the core.

Fuck the beef industry -- because the beef industry "leaders" apparently thought it was “cost cutting” to risk MY health so they can be cheap and get more money! The beef industry thought it was OK to risk sickening countless other people's health with their sick cows raised on blood and meat simply because they want to be cheap and get more money out of every cow. They raise cattle on cheap food that happens to taint their product, which happens to be living creatures with feed requirements that cannot be changed to cheap proteins because they are herbivores!

Cheap, corrupt industry is scared of the truth, scared of seeing the results of their greed, so they won't test the cows they feed with the wrong and cheap food. Of course the complicit USDA racket will avoid testing cows at the BIG plants with the most money to lose if their meat is proven to be bad. All because greedy people refuse to shell out the money it takes to raise a cow properly on food it's body is designed to eat -- PLANTS.

Since the greedy cattle ranchers can't wait for the normal time for a calf to grow up, and they can't let a cow produce NORMAL amounts of milk, and they think it's ok to milk them until their nipples get raw, pus-filled, and infected, and they realized that with all that pus they might get slapped with a lawsuit as they let that pus go into the milk, so to cover their fat asses , hey think it's OK to pump cows full of growth hormones and antibiotics ... and so because of greed and neglect, other infectious diseases like strep are resistant to conventional treatments, and we all get sick, and because of hormones little girls get their periods and breasts at younger and younger ages now. Don't believe me? Compare school photos from 1930s to ones now of kids in the 5th grade.

Tell me did you figure out how to normalize away a gag reflex yet?

Fuck you and your poisoned products of uncontained greed and corruption. Corporations will call on company-paid-for skewed "science" to rationalize insane business practices that in turn destroy us. The media exists to advertise, it's an ad agency pretending to be in the news business. They lost respect and trust to tell the truth about industry years ago.

The beef industry has fucked up the food chain, they have betrayed the public trust, they lie, steal, and bribe meat inspectors because they are corrupt pieces of shit and do not care what they do to people or cows as long as they get their money and no one complains or leaks the truth.

This is sociopathic behavior out of the beef industry, folks -- on a grand scale. Don't enable it.

The Beef industry bullies the whistleblowers who try to tell the truth because they are scared of the truth of what they do getting out to the public. They are SCARED of losing profits. Well boo fuckin' hoo, you ain't gonna be able to afford a new Rolls.

I'm scared. I ate prions and I might suffer a horrible death, and if I do ... All the money in the world you made at my expense is worthless to me if I am gonna die. Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose, and if enough people have nothing left to lose what's gonna hold them back from tearing apart the beef industry - the people that murdered them -- before they die?

Needless sickness and death can do a lot to destroy trust, motivate investigations, and raise wrath outta people towards those who lie and exploit. Some corrupt people are so depraved they really don't give a shit about anything but fattening their own bottom lines and bank accounts. Just because I personally would never think in a way so sick myself doesn't mean other people are not that sick. Truth is, some people are very, very sick. Sicker than I can imagine. And they are the ones that need a reality check to knock their sorry asses out of business before they hurt somebody.

Be aware: When the rich eat a person, they seek to consume a person's integrity first, and that goes away with sweet dreams. And once the integrity is devoured, the soul is so easily corrupted, the inner locus of control is quickly usurped, the heart is divided and conquered and so the mind gets twisted up and the tongue lies, pretending as if it was telling the truth. Oh, the rest of a person is easy pickins once they sell out.

And too many people have been devoured by money. It's time to say, no more.

If we do not stand up with integrity we will regret our apathy and corruption when the damage done for money comes to bring ruin to our own backyard. Your money will not protect you from your bad deeds.
=Underground Panther in the Sky=

Here is one of the replies I got to that rant..
Irresponsible and stupid hysteria
by Tom H.
Feb. 2, 2004

Your coverage of the mad cow fiasco is irresponsible and stupid. Has if occurred to you that people's livelihoods are at steak here? Have you ever heard of shouting fire in a crowded theater?

There's no reason to take your hysteria seriously or give your stupid alliance of fear any serious consideration. You stupidly challenge the scientific credentials of the experts at USDA without ever mentioning your own credentials. I think I'll take the U.S. Department of Agriculture's word on agriculture before I'll take yours. What are YOUR stupid credentials, "Unknown News"? Why do I have this sneaky suspicion you have no credentials?

Pass the A-1 sauce, stupid. I'm barbecuing tonight.
=Tom H.=

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Not so stupid today with what is known about BSE and how contaminated our food supply is now is it?

[flvegan]

1. Those responses could have come from DUers, sadly enough.

Check ANY thread that suggests diverting from the shit meat based diet or alleviating cruelty in the agriculture system and you get those very same responses.

[roody]

2. Haven't touched the stuff for 34 years, just an

occasional local, organic hamburger. Corn is also not the natural food of cows.

[hvn_nbr_2]

3. "Livelihoods are at steak"

Love this comment by Tom H. "Moran": people's livelihoods are at steak.

Well, I guess it's true that in the Bush economy, a lot of livelihoods are running kind of rare to medium rare, while some others are just burnt to a crisp.