Just saw video of what this company was allegedly doing to downer cattle .. the Humane Society doing the work that Agriculture inspectors apparently .. didn't? Still so many unanswered questions..

No one expects your steak coming to plate in a nice clean way, but the video of the horrid conditions that the downer cattle were going through would make even Upton Sinclair cringe with disgust.. forklifts shoving them into the grinder .. prodding them .. kicking them. All to get the sick cattle that can't walk into the food chain along with younger healthy cows. After all, unless you are getting meat from small town independent butchers, the chances are your Big Mac or Whopper has parts of a plethora of cattle, not just one.

Eat up? Chow down .. throw out And throw up.

MORE: Schools that served the meat from the Chino, CA, Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing have taken it off the menu.

These causing major fears of Mad Cow disease .. If you study the causes of Mad Cow, two possibilities of the disease: Cows eating themselves in feed, and sick and downer cattle being ground up and put into the food chain along with other cows.

I was most interested in how international media has reacted to this.. One headline in India blared "MAD COW FEAR RAISED IN LARGEST US MEAT RECALL EVER"...
Shouldn't we, as a country, be clean..? Shouldn't we serve the cleanest and most properly killed beef in the world? Shouldn't our standards be higher than any other nation in the world?

Instead, we're addicts. The government won't let people smoke pot, but damn they let aspartame and high fructose roll into our stores without regard to safety.. Mercury in the flu shots--and now we're told this year the shots aren't even working!
Cloned cattle.. cloned tomatoes.. you can't even trust the seeds anymore! Years ago watermelons with seeds were eaten at picnics. .now cut into your watermelon and you won't find those seeds anymore. Science gave us a way to get rid of them.. Annoyances, I suppose. I liked them.

But I'm off target.

Focusing on the meat industry is something we don't, as a country, do until something like this recall happens. Instead we go to the store, buy the food, the meat, the steaks.. We rarely think. I am not exempting myself from this either.. There are too many times I don't read labels or think about the process before I buy.

Maybe not anymore.

But of course.. if that matters. Remember, the beef recall extends back two years .. How many McDonalds trips have you made? How many medium cheeseburgers did you digest? How at risk are the kids at schools that ate these burgers?

And the next question (as it happens so many times with recalls) what is next? Will it be expanded? Will fast food chains have to worry?

And with no evidence, I STILL CAN CONCLUDE: This happens at other meat packing houses. I have no doubts. It wasn't just Chino, CA, that had downer cattle being ground up..

We may all have re-think this whole process before we buy again.

I remember when Oprah questioned the meat packing industry.. In 1996, the Queen of Talk worried aloud about Mad Cow.

We need some more muckrakers.. And with that in mind, thank God for the Humane Society.

If you eat meat the Humane Society video may be the worst video you have ever seen.. But the most important video you may ever watch.

That was my vent..

Now the update:

Schools pull meatballs..
New Mexico schools react..
Rhode Island schools react..
Houston schools react..
Humane Society: Cruelty that defies belief..

Official company response.