OT: Never complain about the cost of meat

[Will]

AgentZero said:
Also, GuyofDoom, MasterChiToes and Will, consider yourselves all mightily smote.

Well thanks, except it seems you did not really read what I posted. I'm fine with eating meat. I eat at least some daily. What I'm not fine with is the so-called "industrial farming" practices, which I believe will someday come to bite us all in the arse harder than it already has. And I do mean all, not just those of us who do eat meat... like I said, the heavy usage of antibiotics in livestock is just asking for the development of resistant strains faster than would otherwise have happened.

[GuyOfDoom]

As for sources Fyron:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...arch&DB=pubmed

Vom Saal is one of the primary world researchers on effects of estrogenic compounds. He focuses mostly on BPA, which doesn't translate directly to beef, but is important none the less. I'll see if I can narrow down one of his papers in particular that highlights the particular trend of industrial research versus NIH funded research.

Shockingly enough industry rarely finds anything wrong with their practices. If you want a "real-life" example just look at Merck.

Industry has the luxury of being able to withhold their research findings because it comes from private funding. I'm personally of the belief that all scientific research should be public domain regardless of the source of funding.

It's clear that you share the common American mindset that "it can't hurt me" or "why should I change?" I'm not going to argue with you anymore past this post. If you'd like to continue the conversation more, I'll give you a email address or we can send messages to each other.

[aegisx]

I could sure go for a cheesesteak after all this talk.

[AgentZero]

Man, whoever came up with the melding of steak with cheese was a genius! And yet who gets the Nobel Prize? A bunch of bearded weenies who go on about things no one else understands. Where's the justice?

[Renegade 13]

Unfortunately that wouldn't help; the feedlots would then just buy cattle from the US and ship them up here to be readied for slaughter...we'd just end up with no where to sell them to.

[Renegade 13]

Indeed.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Sounds like you need a cattle ranchers' union.