Posts Tagged ‘meat’
We at USDemocrazy were all “laissez les bons temps rouler!” (pardon our French) yesterday in honor of Mardi Gras, but today is a whole different can of worms.
Whether people observe Lent (a Christian tradition of abstaining from some sort of temptation during the run-up to Easter) or not, many like to challenge themselves by giving something up for those 40 days.
Need an idea of what to give up? Well some people might consider meat… but maybe that’s not for everyone. Instead, you could follow in footsteps of UMBC political science professor and friend of USDemocrazy, Dr. Thomas Schaller! In a recent column in The Baltimore Sun, he resolved to eat less meat. Why? Among other reasons, he cites the ethics of meat production:
According to the American Meat Institute, in 2007 the average American consumed 86 pounds of chicken, 65 pounds of beef, 51 pounds of pork, and 18 pounds of turkey. Throw in the occasional serving of lamb, veal and mutton, and that computes to an average of around two-thirds a pound of meat daily. That’s a lot of meat.
A lot of meat, indeed.
Courtesy USA Today
If you have just had a hamburger and are now feeling a little qweezy… GOOD NEWS!!!! You are not alone!!! Bad beef has a few other folks feeling funky too!!
According to an USA Today article, meat-packing giant Cargill has announced a second recall on 22,723 pounds of tainted ground beef from a Beef Packers Inc. facility in Arizona.
We at USDemocrazy breathed a sigh of relief at the recall news…until…
We learned that recalling meat is, well, a beefy problem.
It appears that once meat leaves the meat-packing facilities, it gets widely dispersed, renamed, repackaged and radically relocated. In other words, hard to track down.
