Mad Cowboy - Documentary Part 4 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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[kimberlily1983]

I'm glad Oprah and Lyman were successful in their case, but I would have liked her not to have said that free speech lives. HER free speech lived, because of her celebrity and her money. It's a whole different story for us ordinary folks.

[UMakeTheConnection]

@kimberlily1983 I hear you and yes, free speech is much more difficult for us "ordinary" people. I get in trouble for voicing my opinion in my own home these days......

[patzivota22]

Unfortunately, people can usually get away with violence towards animals way more than they can vrs. violence towards people.

And if you havn't seen it, Mercy for Animals has posted a video that quickly became viral and has stirred a lot of things up concerning some grousome practices in the egg industry, such as grinding up male chicks alive, male chicks are considered as waste.

Youtube this: "Undercover Investigation at Hy-Line Hatchery"

[UMakeTheConnection]

So true and thank you I did see that investigative report at Hy-Line Hatchery. No doubt one of the most well presented to date. We live in a very sick society where people can consider this a livelihood.

[thefutureisvegan]

When I see trucks full of animals with fear in their eyes, these places where machines are made to handle the struggling bodies of animals as they're being slaughtered, the behaviour of the workers in these places, I see Nazis, Jews, Gypsies and gays in Auschwitz. I see slave boats full of Africans.

When I see the "cruelty section" in the supermarket and adults buying that "food", I see Nazis and their children: the "Hitler youth". They all know what they're doing.

The future is vegan

[UMakeTheConnection]

Well put ! I see it the same way. If this world doesn't stop raising animals for food, there won't be much left to eat, vegan or otherwise, not to mention the grossly under rated environmental disaster just waiting to happen.

[UMakeTheConnection]

@orgamikrikit I would bet, even if you were blindfolded and lead gently down a plank, your instincts would kick in and you would know what's going on. The smell of blood, the screams, in their case is communication, although terror. You need to watch some slaughter videos and look into those animals eyes before they even reach their final destination. They know ! Research has proven pigs are smarter than dogs BTW.

[bryncomeaux]

to really make change we must cut the funding to government , employers, landlords, and merchants Theses four things corral us in.

They take homes our jobs our safety and poision our food. we must create new ways of independant living based on homes that are paid for without a bank, not rigged by trades and guilds to ex And produce their own food and energy. Modern technology of hydroponics and photovoltaics make this posable. Only in this way can we stop war poverty death and conquest on earth

[wthjrtx1]

@singpraise247

Hey if your a poor hunter or a dinosuar. Thats fine.

I enjoy being at the top of the food chain and getting paid for it some days...lol

[singpraise247]

@wthjrtx1  NUTS< RICE< FRUITS AND VEGETABLES! You don't HAVE to eat meat to SURVIVE!

[cowboywithspurs36]

other beings . he says some body not something . they have no power . no voice . are you talking about the people that are homeless and starving ? what about people , that don't live the life theses people do that are making the video . you know the ones that eat what ever they can to stay alive , live a day in there shoes and we see how sa you are when you eat a burger or some chicken . the problem is you people that judge don't know what it means to go hungry

[guitarcountry1]

And free speech didn't really rock because Oprah didn't mention not eating hamburgers again. They shut her up.  She didn't have to pay any money, but they silenced her. Her lawyers told her not to take the chance the second time.

[Jleigh225]

@wthjrtx1 shut up and eat? I will pay more for food so farmers can have a good life, and still put food on my plate that wont give me disease. There is a reason people come from other countries healthy and then live in the US and get diabetes, heart disease, and cancers. Food will have to become more expensive that is a fact, but you have no compassion for the people trying to prevent an epidemic proportion of disease? or come to a solution that can fix a broken agricultural system?

[jayofwaterloo]

@kimberlily1983 I do not know much about AETA. I will read up on that stuff . But i know in Canada there are some movement . To more organic food that is good news.

[kimberlily1983]

@jayofwaterloo ... This is just one example that I happen to know of... I think the attempt to erode away at our rights are happening across the board, in the US, in Canada, and elsewhere.

[kimberlily1983]

@jayofwaterloo Often we don't... I'm all for more involvement on this issue. :) I think we need to defend the right to free speech, as well as simply make the point of exercising it. One thing people can do is learn about the AETA in the US, and how it violates free speech: essentially it makes people who break the law get harsher sentences if they are motivated by animal rights in their breaking of the law. It criminalized the political component, the thoughts and beliefs of the lawbreaker.

[jayofwaterloo]

true but the problem is we do nothing about it?