Sorry Popeye PETA!!
Well the news this week has informed us that all spinach has been recalled from the shelves. Yes that green, leafy vegetable apparently can kill you!!
A recent E. coli O157:H7 outbreak has killed at least one person and over a hundred other cases have been reported.
A quote from FDA news:
"E. coli O157:H7 causes diarrhea, often with bloody stools. Although most healthy adults can recover completely within a week, some people can develop a form of kidney failure called Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS). HUS is most likely to occur in young children and the elderly. The condition can lead to serious kidney damage and even death."
Not a pretty sight and not one that PETA and the vegan-ites wish to keep in the public's mind.
Now I don't wish to make light of those who suffered nor do I wish to tell people that spinach is bad. Normally it is very healthy and makes a nice side dish to steak, seafood etc.
I like it myself yet was not able to order it today at my local restaurant as none is available until they determine the outbreak source.
What I do find interesting is PETA's quiet stance on this. I am on their email list and have not seen any warnings or stories in their newsletters about the dangers of this tainted spinach.
Why?
Perhaps is because it upsets their anti-meat message and propaganda machine? They often cite the dangers of meat from the big meat plants that slaughter animals, in bulk, for food with assembly-line fashion. They tell us how bad it is for us and on and on.
Well many of the non-meat products are also massed produced.
News flash: Anything processed in mass quantities has the potential to become tainted on a mass scale!! Yes, even your precious veggies PETA.
I often read their rants that if you could see inside a meat packing plant it would turn you off of eating meat. Tell you what, go inside any veggie processing plant and see if you have a taste for that food item after. I bet you don't. I once went inside a potato processing plant and the stench and site of all those spuds being turned into food products turned me off potatoes for a month!
Instead of using the KFC and McDonald's method as their only example they could better direct their energies at big corporate food plants. Faceless giants that wish for us to be slaves to their food production.
I prefer to buy locally when I can. I search out free range animals that are not penned up and force fed. I also like to buy locally grown veggies to go alongside that meat.
Now granted, in this rat race world that we live in and given the seasonal changes it is not always possible to buy local. Even for PETA.
Mankind has lost its ability for the general populace to know how to produce their own food, be it through hunting, fishing, small scale farming or vegetable growing. It is the way the big faceless food giants want it.
So instead of trying to scare us all into a Vitamin B12 deficient diet of a vegan, why not try to teach folks how to be more self sufficient. To support local ranchers and growers or better yet, to do it yourself?
Being a vegan is not a sure fire way of staying healthy. Just ask the 100's who have suffered from this latest outbreak of bad mass production or the gaunt, skinny ones that have denied their bodies a full diet that an omnivore needs.
Then again being an omnivore is not a surefire way either. Eating in moderation, exercise and eating natural foods will help. Again, it is no guarantee...you could get hit by a truck....hauling veggies!!
DM
A recent E. coli O157:H7 outbreak has killed at least one person and over a hundred other cases have been reported.
A quote from FDA news:
"E. coli O157:H7 causes diarrhea, often with bloody stools. Although most healthy adults can recover completely within a week, some people can develop a form of kidney failure called Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS). HUS is most likely to occur in young children and the elderly. The condition can lead to serious kidney damage and even death."
Not a pretty sight and not one that PETA and the vegan-ites wish to keep in the public's mind.
Now I don't wish to make light of those who suffered nor do I wish to tell people that spinach is bad. Normally it is very healthy and makes a nice side dish to steak, seafood etc.
I like it myself yet was not able to order it today at my local restaurant as none is available until they determine the outbreak source.
What I do find interesting is PETA's quiet stance on this. I am on their email list and have not seen any warnings or stories in their newsletters about the dangers of this tainted spinach.
Why?
Perhaps is because it upsets their anti-meat message and propaganda machine? They often cite the dangers of meat from the big meat plants that slaughter animals, in bulk, for food with assembly-line fashion. They tell us how bad it is for us and on and on.
Well many of the non-meat products are also massed produced.
News flash: Anything processed in mass quantities has the potential to become tainted on a mass scale!! Yes, even your precious veggies PETA.
I often read their rants that if you could see inside a meat packing plant it would turn you off of eating meat. Tell you what, go inside any veggie processing plant and see if you have a taste for that food item after. I bet you don't. I once went inside a potato processing plant and the stench and site of all those spuds being turned into food products turned me off potatoes for a month!
Instead of using the KFC and McDonald's method as their only example they could better direct their energies at big corporate food plants. Faceless giants that wish for us to be slaves to their food production.
I prefer to buy locally when I can. I search out free range animals that are not penned up and force fed. I also like to buy locally grown veggies to go alongside that meat.
Now granted, in this rat race world that we live in and given the seasonal changes it is not always possible to buy local. Even for PETA.
Mankind has lost its ability for the general populace to know how to produce their own food, be it through hunting, fishing, small scale farming or vegetable growing. It is the way the big faceless food giants want it.
So instead of trying to scare us all into a Vitamin B12 deficient diet of a vegan, why not try to teach folks how to be more self sufficient. To support local ranchers and growers or better yet, to do it yourself?
Being a vegan is not a sure fire way of staying healthy. Just ask the 100's who have suffered from this latest outbreak of bad mass production or the gaunt, skinny ones that have denied their bodies a full diet that an omnivore needs.
Then again being an omnivore is not a surefire way either. Eating in moderation, exercise and eating natural foods will help. Again, it is no guarantee...you could get hit by a truck....hauling veggies!!
DM
posted by ThePetafile at 4:38 PM
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