At 08:32 AM 07/15/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Article in today's Chicago Suntimes:
>
>Meat policy causing a beef
>July 15, 2000
>BY LANCE GAY SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE
>WASHINGTON--The federal agency overseeing food inspection is imposing
>new rules reclassifying as safe for human consumption animal
>carcasses with cancers, tumors and open sores.

[snip rest of informative article]

Makes PETA look like angels, huh?  I'm far more worried about the propoganda
spewed by Our Benevolent Government and by meat/chicken/pork/etc
boards/councils/groups etc. than I am about the poorly financed but outspoken
people in PETA. It's not PETA who injects the drugs into food animals and puts
hormones and ground up roadkill in animal food.

To those eating steak to tweak PETA's collective nose... please try to make it
organically raised.

I don't post often, but I can say that if you live in the Albuquerque area and
can get downtown Saturday mornings, the fellow who sells organically raised,
grass fed lamb and chicken was there last week and I hope to see him again
tomorrow. He was chortling about his product and how grass fed is best,
handing
out a photocopied article about it that noted a website, http://eatwild.com
  I
bought a five-pound bag of chicken quarters (thighs and legs) for about... $7,
I think. He said it could sit in the frige for almost a week since they were
just slaughtered. I've eaten half and frozen half. The lamb was okay but a bit
gristly perhaps, so I think I may pass on that unless he gets more meaty cuts
(stew meat may really be meant for stew). I think I'll stick with the chicks,
and check out his organic eggs (a bit high at $3/dozen).

He said he'd bring me some chicken fat. I'm trying to take that as a
compliment
;)

All this means I'll avoid being "protected" by the government.

Debby
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