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Re: The truth about Greece

Regina Schmid wrote:

> www.wagny.org/greece
>
> Regina
> --
> www.archenoah-kreta.com
> The world is a dangerous place, not just because of those who do evil,
> but because of those who look on and do nothing. (Albert Einstein)
>

I see no pictures of cows or chickens.
Are you biased against cows and chickens?

Saddam and six co-defendants are accused of killing 182,000 Kurds during
the campaign, when government troops swept through Kurdistan in 1988,
burning and bombing thousands of villages.
http://www.institutkurde.org/en/afp/archives/?src=news/061128151346.rqgf98fn.xml
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Terrible Treatment of Animals that are Slaughtered
Over 100,000 cattle are killed each day in the US. They are killed by
being hung by their feet and having their throats cut, killed with a
stun-gun, or shocked by electric prods. While being slaughtered, they
are often beaten and kicked.

Factory hens are forced to live through totally outrageous living
conditions. Chickens are kept crammed with four to eight chickens in a
small cage. Each hen is kept confined in about 48 to 86 square inches of
space. When egg production of chickens are reduced to almost nothing,
they can be induced to resume egg production by forced molt, which is
done by water deprivation and starvation for up to two weeks. Most hens
are molted at least once in their lives. This practice is so bad that
even McDonald's won't purchase eggs from suppliers that engage in this
procedure.

There is no sell-by date for chickens, so it is unknown how long a dead
chicken has been sitting around in a processing plant, trucks, storage,
on the road, or a meat case before being sold.

In the production of veal, male calves are put in cramped cages and
chained by their necks to keep them from turning around. They are fed a
diet without roughage and iron to cause the meat of an almost
fully-grown animal to be whitest and tender, like a newborn calf. They
are injected with hormones and antibiotics to make them grow and to stay
alive.

Drugs in Animals
Over 20,000 different drugs are used on animals, such as antibiotics,
sterols and growth hormones. These drugs in animals are consumed when
meat products are eaten. This could lead to a problem with secondary
consumption of antibiotics.

How Meat Eating Destroys the Environment
At the present time, 70% of the grains in the US and 40% of the grains
in the world are fed to livestock. It takes up to 16 pounds of soybeans
and grains to produce one pound of beef and three to six pounds to
produce one pound of turkey or eggs. The World Health Organization says
that 1.2 billion people in the world do not get enough to eat. If less
grains were fed to livestock, this would highly reduce that number.

A disproportionate amount of the resources of the earth are used to
produce meat products. About half the water used by the US is used for
cattle production. It takes 3 to 15 times as much water to produce
animal protein as it does plant protein. A cow needs to eat 7 pounds of
protein derived from soybeans or grains to make a pound of beef.

Around 390 gallons of water are used to produce a pound of beef and just
25 gallons of water to produce one pound of wheat.

Many trees are being cut down throughout the world so more cattle can be
grazed. Much of this deforestation takes place in the tropical rain
forests in Central and South America. Cattle production is the main
reason for the destruction of the rain forests in Central and South
America. More than 25% of the forests in Central America have been
destroyed because of cattle production. For every quarter pound of
hamburger exported from the region, there is a loss of 55 square feet of
rain forest.

When livestock grazes on land this tends to cause erosion of the topsoil
and the land to dry out. The US has lost about one-third of its topsoil.
Good topsoil helps to keep land more cultivable.

Cattle production causes soil depletion. Around 685 million acres, 85
percent of the US western rangeland, is being degraded because of
overgrazing.
Tens of millions of tons of methane are released into the atmosphere by
the 1.3 billion cattle. Hundreds of millions of tons of CO2 go into the
atmosphere by burning forests to make pastures for cattle, which causes
global warning.

It takes 78 calories of fossil fuel to produce 1 calorie of beef
protein; 35 calories for 1 calorie of pork; 22 calories for 1 of
poultry; but just 1 calorie of fossil fuel for 1 calorie of soybeans.

Livestock Organic Waste Helps Destroy the Environment
Cattle production produces a billion tons of organic waste each year.
The waste from animals, fertilizers and pesticides is the main source of
water pollution in the US. According to the EPA, field agricultural
runoff is the main source of 60% of river and stream pollution.

A 1997 Senate report documents that livestock produces 10,000 pounds of
solid manure for every person in the US. The waste from livestock is 130
times that produced by humans. When it rains, phosphorous and nitrogen
from the manure seep into rivers and streams, which causes algae blooms
(red tides). It also causes the increase of dinoflagellates, which are a
one-celled entity that has killed millions of fish. If a human comes in
contact with them, they experience sores on their skin and may
experience memory loss.

Free-Range Chickens
Defining a chicken as "free-range," as sold in natural food store,
insinuates that free range chickens are better treated and therefore
morally alright to eat them. The government's definition of "free-range"
just means that the poultry from which this meat is derived have had
access to the outdoors. This could mean just a small area outside for
thousands of birds.

This does not mean that all the other tortuous techniques being
inflicted on factory-farmed birds are not inflicted on free range
chickens also.
According to Consumer Report (March 1998), it found that free-range
poultry was more contaminated by salmonella and campylobacter than non
free-range poultry. 63% of the tested chickens had salmonella, 16% had
campylobacter and 8% had both.

Dangers of Meat & Fishing Industry
The meat industry is often found guilty of health, environmental and
labor violations. Each year over 20,000 men are killed worldwide in the
fishing industry according to the Agriculture Organization of the UN.
This makes it the most dangerous profession. A fisherman in the US is
sixteen times more likely to be killed on the job than a policeman or
fireman.

Potentially Dangerous Chemicals and Natural Products
Many of the over 25,000 chemicals used in cosmetic and personal care
products have not been tested properly for danger to humans. Many of
these products are toxins or contain toxic products.

Some things that can be dangerous in cosmetic and personal care products
are alcohol (isopropyl), DEA, DMDM hydantoin, FD & C color, fluoride,
fragrance, MEA, mineral oil, parabens, polyethylene glycol (PEG),
propylene glycol (PG), sodium laureth sulfate (SLES), sodium lauryl
sulfate (SLS), triclosan and urea hydantoin. Many of these products can
be serious carcinogens and hormone-disrupting chemicals.

Because there are no regulations in regard to what is considered to be a
"Natural Product," this term is often abused. Often the so-called
natural products contain the same dangerous chemicals that they propound
that they are replacing.

Dangerous Chemicals in Meat
Many potentially hazardous chemicals are often present in meat products.
In the book Poisons in Your Body, by Gary and Steven Null, state some of
the things happening in animal factories. "The animals are kept alive
and fattened by the continuous administration of tranquilizers,
hormones, antibiotics, and 2,700 other drugs. The process starts even
before birth and continues long after death. Although these drugs will
still be present in the meat when you eat it, the law does not require
that they be listed on the package."

Arsenic is often used as a growth stimulant. The Department of
Agriculture (USDA) found that arsenic exceeded the legal limit in 15% of
the poultry in the US.

Sodium nitrite and sodium nitrate are chemicals used as preservatives to
slow down putrefaction in cured meat, giving meat its bright-red color
by reacting with pigments in the blood and muscles. If they are not
used, then the meat will have its natural gray-brown color, which
wouldn't be good for sales. These chemicals when taken in excess can
poison humans, and many people have been poisoned by these chemicals.
These chemicals can be especially dangerous to babies and young
children. The United Nations' joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee of Food
Additives warned, "Nitrate should on no account be added to baby food."
AJ Lehman of the FDA pointed out that "only a small margin of safety
exists between the amount of nitrate that is safe and that which may be
dangerous."

Because of the horrible conditions that the animals to be slaughtered
are put through, often they are given vast amounts of antibiotics, which
can often create antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can be passed to
persons who eat the meat. The FDA estimates that penicillin and
tetracycline save the meat industry $1.9 billion a year.
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