Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Your Neighborhood Meat Packing Plant
Reading Atomik Aztex gave me a glimpse of the meat packing industry of which I have previously been unaware. I did a little research and found the following meat packing plants that are right in our backyard.
Hallmark Meat Packing
Bar M Meat Co
Best Buy Meat
Cattlemen's Choice, Inc
Clougherty Packing Company (Farmer John Brand)
Ellensburg Lamb Company Inc (Superior Packing Co)
Luis Meat Market Company Inc
Pacific Meat Packing Co
R B R Meat Company, Inc (Rightway)
United Food Group Llc (Moran Meat)
Sometimes in
There are so many factors to think about before biting into a juicy hamburger. What are the animals being fed? How are they being killed? What laws protect workers’ rights and are they being enforced?
Here is the link to an informative article on pbs.com entitled, “Meatpacking in the
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First, read Fast Food Nation, it's amazing, and you can never look at McDonalds the same way, nor meat. The McDonald's corporation is humongous and controls the national meatpacking industry, therefore the conditions of the factories and their workers are absurd and the health of the meat is completely anyone's guess. They control the FDA, the FDA does the inspections and reports the information as told. Plus the mass production of meat is killing our environment by pollution. (Most CO2 emissions are not from cars, replace two letters and you got the real culprit, cows - or cattle, whatever).
This is just a scary blurb about big corporations and how our country is run, meaning, the President isn't the only scary thing running our government.
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