(And the biggest consumers of beef, the food industry, can't reduce their prices much as the beef that goes into their products is only a small fraction of their total costs.)
Reducing the price of a Big Mac from 1.00 to.99 cents can double the sales becuase of numbers alone. (ok, not double, but you get the idea, dropping prices sell)
The ban on export probably won't hurt the real family farms a bit, as their markets aren't export. (This statement requires the 'real' qualifier, as most soi-disant 'family farms' are really single-owner agricorps, not actual 'family farms'.)
No, family farms (ok, I use the term loosely--i.e. any independant grower/rancher)sell directly to the feedlots, who sell to the Corps for constistent pricing to satisfy the local bankers. Another example would be deregulation of trucking. An independent trucker makes a bit of cash at the end of the day to send home to the wife. JBHunt, makes a profit of $6.00 per day. Add it up. The competition makes $6 a day, an independent requires $20. An Independent has 1-5 trucks. JBHunt has 20,000.
okay--fair is fair, the consumer gets his Chinese goods at a lower cost--I'll give you that. But holy hell, man--where is you're sense of class? I'd mucher rather hang with a group of Minutemen than Mao.
Before you make ignorant comments about how much RFID costs perhaps you should look into it. Tracing alone costs this country millions of dollars, and RFID eliminates much of that.
Have you ever heard the phrase "Problem, Reaction, Solution"? A group creates chaos, the reaction erupts, and then they conveniently offer a solution. Pimps do it to their ho's, Caeser did it with the Christians. It's an old trick, and the more people involved, the easier it is to pull off. Do you enjoy that type of society for your kids. Let me guess, you're a punk who has no kids.
Both Canada and the United States banned the feeding of the muscles and bones of most animals to cows and sheep back in 1997, but unlike Europe left gaping loopholes in the law. For example, blood is currently exempted from the Canadian and the U.S. feed bans. You can still feed calves cow's blood collected at the slaughterhouse. In modern factory farming practice calves may be removed from their mothers immediately after birth, so the calves are fed milk replacer, which is often supplemented with protein rich cow serum. Weaned calves and young pigs also may have cattle blood sprayed directly on their feed to save money on feed costs. For more information on this and other risky agriculture practices please see http://organicconsumers.org/madcow/GregerBSE.cfm
And the Canadian and U.S. feed bans also allows the feeding of pigs and horses to cows. Cattle remains can be rendered down and fed to pigs, for example, and then the pig remains can be fed back to cattle. Or rendered cattle remains can be fed to chickens and then the chicken litter, or manure, can be legally fed back to the cows.So the fact that according to the USDA the most infectious tissues of the U.S. mad cow case, the brain, spinal cord, and intestines, "were removed from this animal and sent to rendering" is not necessarily reassuring
Um, no. At U$.50/lb, nobody will bother to produce any beef. Not agri-business, not family farms, nobody. (And frankly, the quoted stated is the least innaccurate in your whole screed.)
So, 95% of all US meat export's have been outlawed today creating a massive surplus and you don't think the price of cattle products will drop dramatically for those inside the borders? Wow, you are a bit naive. Only the agricorps and their investors will be capable of riding this one out.
Easy: cook at home and take the food with you. It's cheap, you know exctly what goes into the food, and the level of cleanliness is as high as you desire.
That's not the only beef. From anti-aging creams to surgical sutures to chocolate milkshakes and marshmallows...we have injected animal products from cattle, sheep, and hogs into nearly every corner of our lives. Here's a short list: List
From anti-aging creams to surgical sutures to chocolate milkshakes and marshmallows...we have injected animal products from cattle, sheep, and hogs into nearly every corner of our lives.
It was banned everywhere but the US. Just today (12/30 MSN.COM) the USDA had to publicly step up and announce a (minimal) ban on certain types of feed made from dead cows, called downers.
The US (ag corporations only) have so much money into this process that they kept the procedure from becoming banned all this time fully knowing that this very type of situation destroyed the independent cattleman as they were known in all other countries for years.
But, this was a perfectly timed event. A move is being made on American ranchers this very moment in history and their plight will be the same as the UK's private property rights. This is not new news, there have been Mad Cow discoveries as far back as 8 years in the US. many, and I do mean many, of the BUsh administration's cabinet are ex Monsanto executives. What it is now is a strategic land and power grab-much akin to what the "well meaning" Dawes Act of 1887 which was imposed and in 10 years that "built in system" in it's design finished off the Indians for good.
Look, if I am a "terrorist" for carrying around a Farmers Almanac, then what should the crime be for causing billions of dollars in losses to cattleman because my corporation poisoned them with bad downer cattle, and killed a few people while I was at it? I guess he has the biggest check wins.
Let's get the basic facts out in the open.
MCD is caused by feeding cows dead cows. The only cows that get fed this way are chicken coop cows in billion dollar agri corp controlled farms and ranches, who are doing everything they can to control all land and farms-and water. The open range cattle do not get MCD-ever. It's why UK got it so bad, no open range farming any more.
Who takes the brunt of every bad event in farming? The family man.
Agri business is a giant monopoly who has fought for many years trying to keep feeding dead cows to save a few pennies a pound-now they are saying that "oh, $25 a cow for RIFD will save the world from (the disease they caused) these rogue ranchers." the lobbiests cry. It's all PC these days.
I was in Ft. Collins one time. I was picking up a load of cattle. The cows were so gigantic I thought I'd woken up in a dream. A regular steer was so massive the poor thing couldn't even walk with out struggling. At least 500 lbs larger than normal. It was of course not a good family ranch, it was in a giant corporation feedlot. These criminals should be put to jail-and one day they will be.
It can lay dormant for up to 30 years before MCD affects a human. If you ate at McDonalds yesterday, their is a chance within 30 years you'll be acting like, yes-a mad cow. I've seen videos of victims. Sad indeed. 95% of all beef exports have been halted. Beef prices will plummet to 50 cents a lb. MMm. We'll be consuming beef like mad men.
To this day I love telling newbies (i.e. MS Warriors) about Kermit. "We need Windows for serial connections," they trumpet in Sys Admin huddles. They all get the exact same expression across their faces when they are confronted with *gasp* and alternative to the beloved HyperTerminal. It's like they've lost another notch - another task that doesn't have to be done on Windows.
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There is all kinds of evidence on the web that Bush is a criminal, but Lincoln police hasn't said a word.
(And the biggest consumers of beef, the food industry, can't reduce their prices much as the beef that goes into their products is only a small fraction of their total costs.)
Reducing the price of a Big Mac from 1.00 to .99 cents can double the sales becuase of numbers alone. (ok, not double, but you get the idea, dropping prices sell)
The ban on export probably won't hurt the real family farms a bit, as their markets aren't export. (This statement requires the 'real' qualifier, as most soi-disant 'family farms' are really single-owner agricorps, not actual 'family farms'.)
No, family farms (ok, I use the term loosely--i.e. any independant grower/rancher)sell directly to the feedlots, who sell to the Corps for constistent pricing to satisfy the local bankers. Another example would be deregulation of trucking. An independent trucker makes a bit of cash at the end of the day to send home to the wife. JBHunt, makes a profit of $6.00 per day. Add it up. The competition makes $6 a day, an independent requires $20. An Independent has 1-5 trucks. JBHunt has 20,000.
okay--fair is fair, the consumer gets his Chinese goods at a lower cost--I'll give you that. But holy hell, man--where is you're sense of class? I'd mucher rather hang with a group of Minutemen than Mao.
Have you ever heard the phrase "Problem, Reaction, Solution"? A group creates chaos, the reaction erupts, and then they conveniently offer a solution. Pimps do it to their ho's, Caeser did it with the Christians. It's an old trick, and the more people involved, the easier it is to pull off. Do you enjoy that type of society for your kids. Let me guess, you're a punk who has no kids.
Both Canada and the United States banned the feeding of the muscles and bones of most animals to cows and sheep back in 1997, but unlike Europe left gaping loopholes in the law. For example, blood is currently exempted from the Canadian and the U.S. feed bans. You can still feed calves cow's blood collected at the slaughterhouse. In modern factory farming practice calves may be removed from their mothers immediately after birth, so the calves are fed milk replacer, which is often supplemented with protein rich cow serum. Weaned calves and young pigs also may have cattle blood sprayed directly on their feed to save money on feed costs. For more information on this and other risky agriculture practices please see http://organicconsumers.org/madcow/GregerBSE.cfm
And the Canadian and U.S. feed bans also allows the feeding of pigs and horses to cows. Cattle remains can be rendered down and fed to pigs, for example, and then the pig remains can be fed back to cattle. Or rendered cattle remains can be fed to chickens and then the chicken litter, or manure, can be legally fed back to the cows.So the fact that according to the USDA the most infectious tissues of the U.S. mad cow case, the brain, spinal cord, and intestines, "were removed from this animal and sent to rendering" is not necessarily reassuring
So, 95% of all US meat export's have been outlawed today creating a massive surplus and you don't think the price of cattle products will drop dramatically for those inside the borders? Wow, you are a bit naive. Only the agricorps and their investors will be capable of riding this one out.
That's not the only beef. From anti-aging creams to surgical sutures to chocolate milkshakes and marshmallows...we have injected animal products from cattle, sheep, and hogs into nearly every corner of our lives. Here's a short list: List
LIST
You may have a life jacket, but when the ship goes down, you're still going to get wet.
The US (ag corporations only) have so much money into this process that they kept the procedure from becoming banned all this time fully knowing that this very type of situation destroyed the independent cattleman as they were known in all other countries for years.
But, this was a perfectly timed event. A move is being made on American ranchers this very moment in history and their plight will be the same as the UK's private property rights. This is not new news, there have been Mad Cow discoveries as far back as 8 years in the US. many, and I do mean many, of the BUsh administration's cabinet are ex Monsanto executives. What it is now is a strategic land and power grab-much akin to what the "well meaning" Dawes Act of 1887 which was imposed and in 10 years that "built in system" in it's design finished off the Indians for good.
Look, if I am a "terrorist" for carrying around a Farmers Almanac, then what should the crime be for causing billions of dollars in losses to cattleman because my corporation poisoned them with bad downer cattle, and killed a few people while I was at it? I guess he has the biggest check wins.
Who takes the brunt of every bad event in farming? The family man.
Agri business is a giant monopoly who has fought for many years trying to keep feeding dead cows to save a few pennies a pound-now they are saying that "oh, $25 a cow for RIFD will save the world from (the disease they caused) these rogue ranchers." the lobbiests cry. It's all PC these days.
I was in Ft. Collins one time. I was picking up a load of cattle. The cows were so gigantic I thought I'd woken up in a dream. A regular steer was so massive the poor thing couldn't even walk with out struggling. At least 500 lbs larger than normal. It was of course not a good family ranch, it was in a giant corporation feedlot. These criminals should be put to jail-and one day they will be.
It can lay dormant for up to 30 years before MCD affects a human. If you ate at McDonalds yesterday, their is a chance within 30 years you'll be acting like, yes-a mad cow. I've seen videos of victims. Sad indeed. 95% of all beef exports have been halted. Beef prices will plummet to 50 cents a lb. MMm. We'll be consuming beef like mad men.
To this day I love telling newbies (i.e. MS Warriors) about Kermit. "We need Windows for serial connections," they trumpet in Sys Admin huddles. They all get the exact same expression across their faces when they are confronted with *gasp* and alternative to the beloved HyperTerminal. It's like they've lost another notch - another task that doesn't have to be done on Windows.