Are our children eating bad beef.....AT SCHOOL?

[rollinthunder]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/30/undercover.slaughter.video/index.html

[countrygirl]

I know that when I taught school, there were only a few things that I would eat in the lunchroom...not to fault the workers there though. The hamburger meat that they received through government programs was usually VERY fatty and often the fat was not drained off before putting it in spaghetti, chili, ect. It was not unusual to see students with nothing but starch and meat on their plates....Hopefully things have improved with the new guidelines and students are getting more "green" stuff on their plates rather than french fries and pizza.

[Hawkeye]

Downed cattle is suspicious and is supposed to trigger close scrutiny as to why a beef is down to begin with, as in mad cow disease. It is no industry secret that older, weaker, poor cattle go exclusively into hamburger and other processed meats. I mean the whole dang cow, no steaks or roasts.

Dat is why I don't buy hamburger meat at the grocer or eat fast food burger patties. I buy home-raised young steer from local farmer and have it slaughtered locally. Our freezer burger meat taste like chopped steak. I have both hind quarters ground into burger. I spilt it with my kids and we have over a 100 lbs each in our freezers. Local butcher shops that grind their own burger daily are safe bets as well.

But let's be honest. There probably is not an execution style out there that PETA or Humane Society agrees with. Ever since I can remember, Granddad doing his own or taking one to the local slaughter house, they simply goaded them into a shut and bopped them in the head with a 12 lb sledge hammer, between and just above the eyes. On hogs, it was an instant no-pain kill with one well placed shot with a 22 short right behind the ear.

Mass production packing houses use pneumatic driven retractable spike guns to the brain, some which also introduce a stunning jolt of electricity.

If you want to see something wild, visit the killing room at Marshal Durbin. It is surreal. You wouldn't want to take your class on a field trip to that room unless you wanted them to be vegans for life.

The truth is, the further we get from our primal, rural roots, the more abhorrent meat animal slaughtering techniques seem. That being said, there is no excuse not to kill as quickly and humanly as possible. The native indians had great respect for game and the process of taking it, spiritually.