by Michelle Neff as posted on OneGreenPlanet “Awwww, are these guys Pioneer Woman’s (Ree Drummond) buddies, too?” Major eye roll! The U.S. Cattlemen’s Association (USCA) recently filed a 15-page petition (you can view it in its entirety here) with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the silliest of […]
Press Release from: Biological Diversity.org Livestock operations have polluted 35,000 miles of U.S. rivers and contaminated groundwater in 17 states. Each year American beef production creates 489 billion pounds of manure. WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity submitted a Freedom of Information Act request today seeking communications between […]
by COWSPIRACY: the sustainability secret “Just imagine what this does, in the form of welfare ranching, to our public lands and it’s effect on wild horses, burros and all other wildlife, let alone ourselves!” ~ R.T.
By Carl Johnston as published on BBC “I am in no doubt that they were entering the food chain and being passed off as beef…” Thousands of tonnes of horsemeat probably entered the food chain in the three years before last year’s food crisis, according to a frontbench […]
Source: REUTERS written by Padraic Halpin ABP Foods blamed suppliers it said appeared to have delivered mislabeled beef from Poland… The Irish company at the center of a scandal in Europe over horsemeat in beef products, said on Thursday it is leaving the frozen burger market after selling […]
Source: France24.com EU on February 15 ordered 2,250 DNA tests on prepared meals Thousands of DNA tests on beef products across the European Union found the meals contained up to 5.0 percent of horsemeat, the European Commission said Tuesday. The EU on February 15 ordered 2,250 DNA tests […]
Source: The Jakarta Post “court declared the Willy Selten meat works bankrupt Tuesday” A meat processing plant and wholesaler suspected of mixing undeclared horse meat with beef has been declared bankrupt. A court in the eastern Dutch city of Den Bosch court declared the Willy Selten meat works […]
Source: Vancouver Sun Illegal and Criminal Activity Engross Horse Slaughter Scandal Europe’s mushrooming horsemeat scandal saw its first arrests Thursday and saw French authorities name a French wholesaler as the main culprit in disguising cheap horsemeat as ground beef for frozen foods sold around the continent. Related Articles […]
Source: Daisy Wyatt of the UK’s Independent “Shockingly, an Indian lamb curry was found to contain no trace of lamb – and the meat it contained was neither chicken, beef, pork, horse or goat.” If you thought the British high street had cleaned up its act when it […]
Source: MSN.com Loek van Thiel originally denied the allegations… “This steak still has the marks where the jockey was hitting it,” Rodney Dangerfield quipped in “Caddyshack,” but that could’ve also been pulled from a Yelp review of one Dutch steakhouse. The owner of Amsterdam’s Piet de Leeuw admitted […]
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