[2707] in Vegetarian_Support_Group
meat in the news
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dilley@MIT.EDU)
Tue Feb 3 11:00:00 2004
From: dilley@MIT.EDU
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Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 10:58:25 -0500
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From Harper's Weekly,
February 3, 2004
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...Last week "The Food and
Drug Administration banned the feeding of cattle blood to
calves. Dinner scraps from restaurants, known as "plate
waste," will no longer be fed to cattle either, though
rendered cows will still be fed to pigs and chickens, and
vice versa. Dr. Stanley Prusiner, the Nobel Prize-winning
expert on prions, said that until all cattle are tested for
mad cow disease, none should be considered safe, and he
noted that improved feed practices will not prevent
spontaneous cases. Dutch researchers found that some
migraines are caused by brain disease. A Pennsylvania
company recalled 52,000 pounds of beef that might be
contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The International
Poultry Exposition was held in Atlanta; among the items on
display were automated slaughterers, pluckers, and skinners;
an antibiotic delivery device that injects 3,500 chicks per
hour with pressurized air; metal detectors that cull bits of
metal and bone from meat; and a hands-free neck-breaking
machine."
etc.
