Mad Cowboy - Documentary Part 1 of 6

HOW TO TELL THE TRUTH AND GET IN TROUBLE

I am a fourth-generation dairy farmer and cattle rancher. I grew up on a dairy farm in Montana, and I ran a feedlot operation there for twenty years. I know firsthand how cattle are raised and how meat is produced in this country.
Today I am president of Earth Save International, an organization promoting organic farming and the vegetarian diet.
Sure, I used to enjoy my steaks as much as the next guy. But if you knew what I know about what goes into them and what they can to do you, youd probably be a vegetarian like me. And, believe it or not, as a pure vegetarian now who consumes no animal products at all, I can tell you these days I enjoy eating more than ever.
If youre a meat-eater in America, you have a right to know that you have something in common with most of the cows youve eaten. Theyve eaten meat, too.
When a cow is slaughtered, about half of it by weight is not eaten by humans: the intestines and their contents, the head, hooves, and horns, as well as bones and blood. These are dumped into giant grinders at rendering plants, as are the entire bodies of cows and other farm animals known to be diseased. Rendering is a $2.4 billion-a-year industry, processing forty billion pounds of dead animals a year. There is simply no such thing in America as an animal too ravaged by disease, too cancerous, or too putrid to be welcomed by the all-embracing arms of the renderer. Another staple of the renderers diet, in addition to farm animals, is euthanized pets - the six or seven million dogs and cats that are killed in animal shelters every year. The city of Los Angeles alone, for example, sends some two hundred tons of euthanized cats and dogs to a rendering plant every month. Added to the blend are the euthanized catch of animal control agencies, and road kill. (Road kill is not collected daily, and in the summer, the better road kill collection crews can generally smell it before they can see it.) When this gruesome mix is ground and steam-cooked, the lighter, fatty material floating to the top gets refined for use in such products as cosmetics, lubricants, soaps, candles, and waxes. The heavier protein material is dried and pulverized into a brown powder-about a quarter of which consists of fecal material. The power is used as an additive to almost all pet food as well as to livestock feed. Farmers call it protein concentrates. In 1995, five million tons of processed slaughterhouse leftovers were sold for animal feed in the United States. I used to feed tons of the stuff to my own livestock. It never concerned me that I was feeding cattle to cattle.
Quoted from Howard Lymans book Mad Cowboy
http://www.madcowboy.com/01_MAP.000.html
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[t4705mb6]

Unfortunately we're acting too late. After buying up most of the world's private farms, the international corporate structure is acting at this moment to starve billions. With wars not culling humans fast enough, disease and starvation tactics are now under way. The poor are struggling to JUST buy food - ANY food - for their families. If they could of course they would buy organic healthy foods. Most of the world's population are spending 30-50% of their total income on food .....TODAY!

[UMakeTheConnection]

@t4705mb6 Yes!!! In addition, the latest e-coli scare is about further control of the food supply - it's one step closer to Codex Alimentarius and total food irradiation. This will shut down the remaining few family farms / organic farms and bring us one step closer to nutrition depleted foods, sickness and eventually malnutrition / starvation.

[UMakeTheConnection]

@t4705mb6 Yes!!! In addition, the latest e-coli scare is about further control of the food supply - it's one step closer to Codex Alimentarius and total food irradiation. This will shut down the remaining few family farms / organic farms and bring us one step closer to nutrition depleted foods, sickness and eventually malnutrition / starvation.

[Igentenos]

I have been reading about Monsanto. Besides all the animal cruelty, the chemicals that are used on animals and all the nastiness of production my daughter and I have given up dairy products and meat. i know Monsanto has corrupted vegetables like corn and soy beans. Probably other vegs. They want a monopoly on all food. They even have a patent on a pig? They are corrupt.

[TranzPink007]

John Lennon said it best... "Instant Karma is going to get you"... meaning... you eat sick tortured cows and animals... you yourself get sick. Why can't the general masses see the light?

[SepherStar]

I think this video exploits people who contracted this illness to promote someone else's agenda. Sure, they likely wouldn't have contracted it if they were vegan, but they likely wouldn't contracted it if the cows hadn't been fed sheeps with scrapie either.

[YalkOne]

been doing it for 4 months now....vegetarian/vegan!

-i occassionally eat eggs and fish

kinda sad that only 18k ppl have watched this video....

[YalkOne]

been doing it for 4 months now....vegetarian/vegan!!!!

i feel like there are 2 generations of ignorant americans that need to die before this country's government becomes commendable to the rest of the world

[Meutje13091985]

Some other tips for people who are interested in this subject:

Climate Change: Meat the truth

Food Inc.

Our Daily Bread

Sea the Truth (about the oceans and overfishing)

I just saw the Monsanto tip, thanx!

Zeitgeist (not about food, but especially the economic system/ethical treathment of humans and our 'nature' also VERY interesting!)

[mscashwell]

@Igentenos the govt comes in the back door sticking it to them medically with lies and bills. smh. Monsanto is a monster. Read up on the GMO seeds in those crops and how they prey on the small farmers even as we speak. These companies with long money are allowed to get a way with too much. Politicians with inappropriate relationships that perpetuate corruption in the rank and file need to be stopped. The policymakers ensure their job security. How did we let this happen? We were sleeping.

[mscashwell]

@kimberlily1983 I cried during earthlings very sad. Have you viewed "The world according to monsanto"?

[mscashwell]

@Igentenos the oth 2 crops are wheat and cotton. they also created "agent orange" Monsanto has an ugly history but long money. smh. they have a patented seed "gmo" allowed by our wonderful court system. Don't you just love america. GMO is banned in numerous countries but not here in the good ole us of a. big pharma's tied to fast foods. Doctors tied to big pharma. elderly are conned by doctors. They talk about the elderly being preyed on by door to door or phone con artists when ....