last updated at 01-02-2004 10:11 a.m. (8 times)
Over 130,000 cattle per year are too sick to walk, on their own power, into the slaughterhouse. The GOP (Greedy Offal Party) controlled congress killed repeated attempts to keep "downer" cattle, out of the food chain. Another example of profit over people.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/122603F.shtml
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1224-09.htm
http://www.nodowners.org/media_meatplace.htm
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=703&e=4&u=/ap/20031229/ap_on_re_us/mad_cow_politics
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/154914_madlobby01.html
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/010104I.shtml
I urge all of you that have never visited or worked in a slaughterhouse to read the above link. I speak from experience, what is in this article is but a glimpse into what most Americans would rather not know.
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INVESTIGATE, IMPEACH, IMPRISON!
mike kohr
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