School children being fed contaminated meat!!!! 143 million pounds of contaminated beef recalled, most already bought and most likely eaten!!! What the hell???? It is 2008 and we should not have to deal with such gross mishandling of our food and lack of protection by the USDA. Isn't the USDA supposed to stop these things from happening before they reach the America people? Watching the video of sick cows being basically tortured just so a company won't lose money, is almost enough to make me a vegetarian but then I remember that the spinach was once contaminated too; nothings safe. This goes to show just how greed controls and motivates people who I'm sure already ave millions of dollars. Instead of taking a loss on sick cattle, they would rather butcher them and feed them to innocent people and most importantly children.
Somehow I don't think this was the first time this company or many others have taken shortcuts and put consumers' health in danger. It's also questionable that federal regulators didn't investigate this matter until after the humane society posted videos. What happened to routine inspections of plants? I am not sure what the process is for inspecting food processing plants and food manufacturers, but I don't think it's being followed properly. The company says that the practices depicted on the video were in gross violation of their regulations, yet someone we are supposed to believe that they had no idea what was going on. There has yet to be any company that had no inkling about what was going on within its on company, that would be bad management and bad for business. How else could they make millions or sometimes billions? Perhaps if there were more accountability by out government for such violations, companies would think twice before engaging in such dangerous practices. Of course, thats only if no one is on the take. Apparently it's not happy cows that come from California, but rather happy rich executives that come from California.
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