Mad Cowboy - Full Documentary

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 Lyman's' book Mad Cowboy
http://www.madcowboy.com/01_AboutPS.000.html

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[kirbonite]

I want to personally thank you guys for all of your hard work.. I'm the grandson of a small farmer and from the biggest agricultural town of South Carolina. It's great that you guys can walk this journey together. I began making these realizations after leaving the town.. I hope I can help the cause in the future. K.

[DianeDi]

@kirbonite I appreciate your comment - of course the best way to help is by educating others - as difficult as it might be, it's a journey - that's for sure!

[hankstom123]

thanks for the video.

I m from India and i became vegetarian six months back, thanks to people like you guys and Baba Ramdev (yog guru), Rajiv Dixit ji.

This video will surely help me to convince others to take up vegetarian.

Thanks again.

[DianeDi]

@hankstom123 Thank you for the feedback. There are a number of documentaries that will certainly help you to show others this is most certainly a wise choice. Do check out my main page description for links or (my video uploads) - you may not find elsewhere. I suggest, *Forks Over Knives" - "Food That Kills" - *Eating* and *Earthlings*. I wish you the best of health!

[Ichliebemusikundybd]

Beautiful documentary, it brought tears to my eyes we really have a lot of work to do before this message reaches a wide demographic of people, but it's worth it. Thank you for sharing : ) Namaste

[DianeDi]

@UmbreonAndEspeon1 Oh and lastly - if you and your mom can watch a new documentary - I have it posted on my main page under my main description "Recommended Viewing" ---- this will definitely get anyone's attention!!

It's called *FORKS OVER KNIVES* and I promise, it won't disappoint you.

It's just been released - I can't upload it for copyright reasons or I would.

Gary Yofursky's speech was well done !!! There are a number of EXCELLENT videos available.

Let me know if I can help.

[DianeDi]

@UmbreonAndEspeon1 By the way, my daughter was the one that wanted to go vegetarian - I was so upset because I believed what I was told and thought she wouldn't get "enough" nutrition. Boy was I wrong - I was so awakened when I found out the truth - of course it's all about corporations and money, greed & profit. Once they make us sick, the pharmaceutical industry steps up to the plate with expensive drugs (that don't cure, but only mask our problems) and humans become life long patients.

[DianeDi]

@UmbreonAndEspeon1 So sorry to hear about your mom ---- wish her the best and take good care of her. Most sickness these days are directly related to diet, fast food, prepared foods, high fructose corn syrup, aspartame in diet sodas, gum, (plus 6,000 other products), MSG, and in addition to meat, dairy products are no doubt the number 1 item that should be eliminated from the human diet. PUB MED studies show direct link between cancer and diary. I have a video and links about it.

[UmbreonAndEspeon1]

@DianeDi Yes, I recently saw Gary Yofursky's speech on veganism and I am now reconsidering going vegan. Eating meat...it is not good for us. Then again, it is a bit of inconvient time right now, my mum's pretty sick and she has the five of us to look after...but when she gets better I WILL tell her my feelings. She always said that if I wanted to be vegetarian, she'd help me.

[DianeDi]

@UmbreonAndEspeon1 We truly are what we eat.... I choose NOT to eat animals and just knowing what they are pumping into these poor animals for human consumption is truly criminal. People wonder why they are so sick ???? All these diseases, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, etc. truly are the animals ultimate revenge.