Re: [gardeners] OT - Mad cow disease in cats
lneuru (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sun, 11 Mar 2001 17:21:59 -0500
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> From: T.L.Miller <tlmiller@mac.com>
> To: gardeners@globalgarden.com
> Subject: Re: [gardeners] OT - Mad cow disease in cats
> Date: Sunday, March 11, 2001 3:01 PM
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> 3/11/01 2:36 PM dandixon@home.com Dan Dixon said:
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> >The current attempt to foment consumer hysteria in the U.S. over meat
> >products appears to be driven by a David Fenton company called
Environmental
> >Media Services, an organization that is notorious for orchestrating
> >anti-product scares regarding numerous issues such as pesticides,
> >genetically modified foods, dairy products, animal rights, etc. In this
> >case, Fenton et al are going after the meat industry. Newsweek is
frequently
> >inaccurate and regularly presents knee-jerk news. I have not read it,
but I
> >suspect the article contains the same junk-science that typically is
used in
> >anti-product propaganda campaigns driven by EMS and their clients.
>
> Maybe he's trying to foment hysteria here, but, from what I read, in
> Europe it's already pretty close to that. Beef consumption is way down
> over there.
all meat is down, and more due to the hoof and mouth than BSE.
I liked shopping in France esp. but on most of the continent - additives,
sprays were labelled, usually on a little chalk-board over the veg, or the
butcher would tell you where the meat was from, etc. I could buy oysters
from 6 specific beds in the Charentes and on out into the Pacific when we
lived in Bordeaux. price varied of course, but the ideas was to choose the
salinity of your oyster. Point was people wanted to know so they could
make up their own minds. I'm all for that - I just don't like anyone
telling me what to do, including what additives/whatever I can have in my
food.
I think that, and freshness, is why most of us grow our own?
The best meat I have ever had was lamb in north Africa, fresh-killed and
free range - there wasn't anything else. We had one cook who used to bring
our lunch (chicken) to work in the morning and it would walk around the
yard until time to cook it, when she ducked out the front gate and came
back with a limp bird. I ate rabbit in the counrtyside when someone
managed to catch one to cook. I passed on hedgehog, though., and I wasn't
wild about sparrow sandwich, caught with limed twigs (UHU glue, the modern
version of same), then grilled and served between baguette....bones still
in. At least they took the feathers off. God, were they tough, like
rubber tire. I ditched it as soon as the workmen weren't looking. Way
down south near the desert where we worked a few summers during famine and
it was hard for anyone to get anything to eat (trucked-in food supply was
just as bad as local crops - rare) I saw some of the locals with field rat.
I didn't ask for a taste, either.
No eyeballsfor me, either.
Lucinda
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> Tom Miller
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