Commentary: The farce of ‘Meatless Monday’

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Pa.  |  July, 26, 2012 at 03:58 PM

And here is me thinkin' farmers also produce vegetables…
And fruits and nuts and grain…

And could probably use a little boost in sales.....

Guess they got no reason for livin', huh?

Obviously they don’t count for much against you BigHats and your gazillion linear miles of assembly-line food animal units.

July, 26, 2012 at 10:50 PM

You livestock folks seriously need to get into the Low-Carb community and start quoting the refutations of the common accusations against meat and animal fat that are well supported there. Omnivores need to take the moral highground back from the Vegans who have been leaning on crap science and misinformation to demonize meat consumption for decades now, and it's odd to me how little pushback people in the meat industry have given to them.

Texas  |  July, 27, 2012 at 07:20 AM

Click on the link and listen to the documentary.
Today hamsters; tomorrow dogs, cats and livestock!

http://www.rodeoattitude.com/facesofag/2012/07/26/usda-still-employees-hsus-plant-sarah-l-conant/

Elgin, Texas  |  July, 27, 2012 at 11:53 AM

I am a rancher, grass-fed beef producer and colon cancer survivor. I hope this statement takes the politics out of this issue.

The fact is that the grain fed, antibiotic riddled red meat that we buy in our supremarkets will eventually make you sick one way or another if we keep eating the quantities that I ate while I was developing my colon cancer.

We subdize the corn and soy, so you and I pay twice for our meat - once from USDA handouts, then at the supermarket.

The cheap, subsidized grain makes meat cheap and plentiful, and America has bought into this way of eating and it is making us sick - I make no apologies to anyone, especially to the National Farm Bureau, they spout off whatever their handlers tell them to without any thought of the health of my family.

Eat beef, just not so much of it - please.

The greed that the meat industry is showing on this issue is truly disgusting.

jc

North Bay, ON  |  July, 27, 2012 at 03:23 PM

Where is the "Editor's Note" disclaimer on all the anti-meat articles written by in the closet vegans? This is the first time I have seen an editors note, and this is a beef industry website? Very odd...

Anyway, would like to thank all those spreading fear of meat and promoting meatless Monday. Greater supply means lower prices for us carnivores who are doing just fine, eating meat.

Thanks

July, 27, 2012 at 05:04 PM

Meatless Monday is an initiative of The Monday Campaigns Inc. in association with
the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, neither of which employ Wayne.
During World War I, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration urged families to reduce consumption of key staples to help the war effort. Conserving food would support U.S. troops as well as feed populations in Europe where food production and distribution had been disrupted by war.
To encourage voluntary rationing, the FDA created the slogan “Meatless Monday” and “Wheatless Wednesday” to remind Americans to reduce intake of these products.
Meatless Monday was restarted in 2003 as a public health awareness program.
The campaign was endorsed by the Center for a Livable Future (a division of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) as well as over 20 public health schools.
No Google in Texas?

http://www.mondaycampaigns.org

Pa.  |  July, 27, 2012 at 05:05 PM

Meatless Monday is an initiative of The Monday Campaigns Inc. in association with
the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, neither of which employ Wayne.
During World War I, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration urged families to reduce consumption of key staples to help the war effort. Conserving food would support U.S. troops as well as feed populations in Europe where food production and distribution had been disrupted by war.
To encourage voluntary rationing, the FDA created the slogan “Meatless Monday” and “Wheatless Wednesday” to remind Americans to reduce intake of these products.
Meatless Monday was restarted in 2003 as a public health awareness program.
The campaign was endorsed by the Center for a Livable Future (a division of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) as well as over 20 public health schools.
No Google in Texas?

http://www.mondaycampaigns.org

Pa.  |  July, 27, 2012 at 05:07 PM

Meatless Monday is an initiative of The Monday Campaigns Inc. in association with
the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, neither of which employ Wayne.
During World War I, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration urged families to reduce consumption of key staples to help the war effort. Conserving food would support U.S. troops as well as feed populations in Europe where food production and distribution had been disrupted by war.
To encourage voluntary rationing, the FDA created the slogan “Meatless Monday” and “Wheatless Wednesday” to remind Americans to reduce intake of these products.
Meatless Monday was restarted in 2003 as a public health awareness program.
The campaign was endorsed by the Center for a Livable Future (a division of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) as well as over 20 public health schools.
No Google in Texas?

http://www.mondaycampaigns.org

USA  |  July, 27, 2012 at 05:36 PM

Militant veganism is based on animal liberation which is based on the idea that animals have human-like consciousness that allows them to feel pain and suffer the ssame as humans and, if true, would form the logical basis for the establishment of rights. But such human-like consciousness, refered to as sentience was discredited by Descartes the father of modern philosophy some 360 years ago, back when he also discredited another popular kooky idea, separately from Galileo, that the earth was flat.

Pa.  |  July, 27, 2012 at 05:41 PM

OOOOPS
computer went crazy!
can't delete dupes...

usa  |  July, 27, 2012 at 05:45 PM

Besides violating God-given fundamental rights in our private property in natural resources in minerals, plants and animals, the creation of communal interests in other peoples' animals also violates the moral of the parable about the man, the boy and the donkey. America became a world super power because legislators told do-gooders and Communists that the legislature did not have the power to interfere with private property rights; in fact, the duty of the government was to protect those fundamental rights, not take them away.
Vestages of that limitation on government creates the need to do as Saul Alinski said to do: Do with what you can and clothe it in a moral garment. In this case, animal cruelty. In other words, create a false dilemma to get otherwise loyal Americans to ignore God-given fundamental rights in private property by resurrecting a long ago discredited construct that animals have some sort of ability to feel as we do.

USA  |  July, 27, 2012 at 05:57 PM

Not only is sentience, the human-like ability to feel as we do, in animals unproven, sentience is unprovable.
I've seen written that hard science proves animals are sentient. Baloney. Let's test that assertion first by determing exactly what is an animal. Well, an animal is something that is not a mineral or a plant, excluding virus, bacteria, prion, and fungus. That means that sponges and coral are animals. If a sponge thinks as we do, then SpongeBob SquarePants could be real. That also means that something fishy is going on when all we see are the larger species of animals brought into the mix but not Black Plague carrying fleas, West Nile carrying mosquitoes and Deer Fever ticks. Those bugs are animals too.

usa  |  July, 27, 2012 at 08:57 PM

The two faced H$U$ IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK GO TO HUMANEWATCH>ORG

SD  |  August, 01, 2012 at 10:10 PM

FACT: there are withdrawal times for antibiotic and other medications fed to meat animals so that there are NO residues of those medications in the meat at time of processing.

Therefore, there is little true difference between animals fed in various ways, and the main reason for those various methods of raising food animals is to give consumers a CHOICE of product.

FACT: annual consumption of meat is only a few ounces per day. AND: the meat industry does NOT advocate high consumption, suggesting three ounces per serving, and one or two servings per day. PLUS: the beef industry and probably other meats as well suggest a BALANCED diet, including fish, and many vegetables, NOT exclusive meat diets.

Get over yourselves vegans! Get a real life. Do some serious work and stop telling people what to eat. Make your own choices and allow the rest of us the same right.