Re: The truth about Greece

This Regina is a weird chick

Mhitsos**48 wrote:
> 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.
> http://www.vegetarian-restaurants.net/OtherInfo/GeneralVeg.htm#terrible
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Ronald 'More-More' Moshki (03.01.2007 04:59)