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RE: Mad cow disease found in CA - 4/29/2012 6:08:08 AM

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Well, I made the very large mistake of ignoring your advice and googling ":Brown Recluse Spider bites" while eating.

Told ya ;)

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RE: Mad cow disease found in CA - 4/29/2012 6:13:04 AM

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I'm struggling with the whole loving bacon thing, though. I don't see pig up there in your list.

I love pork and especially bacon but do not buy US factory-farmed pork because I believe the way the pigs are treated on CAFOs is deplorable: http://michaelpollan.com/articles-archive/an-animals-place/

Kudo's to Chipotles. (See Pollan's article starting about halfway down for the evil of CAFOs. Chipotles is severely minimizing.)

http://www.chipotle.com/en-us/fwi/animals/animals.aspx

Many pigs are raised on factory farms and don't have a great life. They are penned in concrete and steel and given large amounts of antibiotics to fend off the diseases this type of confinement breeds. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, American pork producers use over 10 million pounds of antibiotics per year to keep their confinement raised pigs from getting sick. That's more than an estimated three times the amount used to treat all human illness.

Between the mistreatment of the pigs and the massive amount of waste produced, these farms aren't good for anyone.

Luckily, there is a better way.

There are ranchers whose pigs are raised outside or in deeply bedded pens, are never given antibiotics and are fed a vegetarian diet. It's the way animals were raised 50 years ago before huge factory farms changed the industry. We believe pigs that are cared for in this way enjoy happier, healthier lives and produce the best pork we've ever tasted.

We call this style of ranching naturally raised, and since 2001, we have sourced 100% of our pork from producers who follow these guidelines.

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RE: Mad cow disease found in CA - 4/30/2012 7:28:42 AM

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I was just doing a mental inventory of my foodstocks, and I found that I don't have any meat at all in the house! Cheese, yes; some Albacore steaks in the freezer, yes; a few eggs, yes; milk, yes, ICE CREAM YER DAMN RIGHT! but no meat. I need a bowl of ice cream I haven't had pig in a long time... at least a half a year, and that was sausage... it's been years since I've had pig chops or pig tenderloin. ice cream No chicken for a while, either. Just grass-fed beef when it's marked down, and I made some corned beef and cabbage last month. Blue Bell Banana Split Last "burger" was a Boca Burger. Might just as well go all the way and go ovo-lacto (don't hardly eat fish anymore; squeeze a swordfish steak and watch all the tiny wormy parasites come popping up ☺) Blue Bunny Bordeaux Chocolate Cherry mmmm

Do I really need ice cream right now?

All those extra calories...

Ahhh, hell... (flips coin)

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