Maybe it's silly...
Dec. 25th, 2003 10:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnpalmerMaybe it's silly, but I found myself deciding that Italian sausage was a better idea for holiday lasagna than ground beef.
I guess what bothered me was reading the news story. This animal couldn't move under it's own power, see... so they slaughtered it anyway, but packaged the brain and spinal cord for testing.
Look, I know that there are statistical methods of measuring risk, and it might well be that I've eaten meat from sick bovines many a time, and never cared, and never been in danger, but it's just like "You *KNEW* this animal was seriously ill, and you *still* killed it and started chopping it up for human consumption? What's *wrong* with you people?"
So, I think I'm going to start preparing stuff to make lasagna later, and absolutely refuse to think about animal handling and meat packing procedures in US meat farming.
(Those of you who are unaware: there appears to have been an episode of mad cow disease here in Washington.)
I guess what bothered me was reading the news story. This animal couldn't move under it's own power, see... so they slaughtered it anyway, but packaged the brain and spinal cord for testing.
Look, I know that there are statistical methods of measuring risk, and it might well be that I've eaten meat from sick bovines many a time, and never cared, and never been in danger, but it's just like "You *KNEW* this animal was seriously ill, and you *still* killed it and started chopping it up for human consumption? What's *wrong* with you people?"
So, I think I'm going to start preparing stuff to make lasagna later, and absolutely refuse to think about animal handling and meat packing procedures in US meat farming.
(Those of you who are unaware: there appears to have been an episode of mad cow disease here in Washington.)
