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From: courtney@hp-pcd.UUCP (Courtney Loomis)
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Subject: Why not meat? THE INDUSTRY! - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 7-Jan-84 03:37:44 EST
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hp-pcd!courtney    Jan  6 18:09:00 1984

Though I have "passed through" many different justifications/reasons for not
eating meats over the last 6 years (most of which had to do with the health
in one way or another), my feelings now are based more on the MEAT INDUSTRY
than the meat itself.

It seems that at least twice a year the national press picks up some story
about how a lot of nationally distributed meat got contaminated with some
"really bad stuff".  And you all know what makes RED MEAT RED...
nitrates, of course (untreated meat has a gray-brown color to it, unlike any
color most people have EVER seen).  Or we could talk about HORMONES and
FEEDLOTS (a disguisting practice... fat-marblize and water-log those beefs
to improve those profits, while the consumer's health is not an issue unless
the law makes it one and the lawmakers have a hard time regulating one of the
strongest lobbies in the US...  RANCHERS).  And the CHICKEN-MEAT INDUSTRY is
so loaded on hormones that I don't consider it as a red-meat alternative.

So... yes, I eat meat... I eat grass-fed beef healthily home-grown by friends
and neighbors.  I eat wild game (from ranges not sprayed with pesticides).
And I eat warm-when-found "road kills" (almost anything that isn't known for
its garbage-eating habits).  I eat fish (many of our waters are still
healthy... thank somebody!).

And with these considerations in mind, I suspect that I get just the right
balance of meat and non-meat sources of protein, minerals, and vitamins in my
diet.  The quantity of meat in MANY people's diets is ridiculously high
(according to a significant segment of people of the health profession).


Courtney Loomis