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[monica odenwald Contribution Level: 3]

Do you think some marketing by big businesses is misleading? Here is a link to see a short video on how cattle, chickens and pigs are "processed" for the market place where we buy them ready to eat.

Do you believe you live a healthy lifestyle? I hope you do have a stomach cause your going to need one watching this.

http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming.asp

This is not a long video. If you are interested or connected in anyway to marketing in the health industry, you NEED to see this.

Funny how the story of how they are processed stops once they reach you in a pretty package. But in reality health problems occurring from our hormone-fed food being processed this way are becoming increasingly large. Connections between all kinds of diseases and autsim, ADD, alzheimers, etc are being linked to toxins in foods and the environment.

Ignorance is bliss because we should take responsibility for what we know. So don't watch this if you have little courage or willingness to take responsibility for what you see. Its the unthinkable, the unimaginable and the fear we all have somewhere in us of knowing.

Monica

[Gale George Contribution Level: 1]

Monica:

Unfortunately, the old saying "out of sight, out of mind" seems to be fairly common in today's society. Thanks for the reminder!

Gale George

[Gil Jimenez Contribution Level: 2]

Wow, thanks for posting this.
I'm a huge fan of organic foods and
this is a reminder of why.

I hope this resonates with more people
and actually passes on.

Great post.

[Richard Bravo Company: Life Force International Contribution Level: 9]

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and people wonder why I'm a hunter....

Monica,
Check out these sites too...
http://www.meatrix.com
http://www.milksucks.com

~RB

[Michelle Moseley Company: Avon Products, Inc Contribution Level: 2]

OMG, I'm sitting here in tears!! I had no idea it was that bad. I feel sick. Thank you for sharing that. It was incredibly hard to watch but we need to know.

I do believe that if more people knew, we could stop this inhumane treatment. I'll be passing this video along. How can those people doing this, sleep at night?

[Jayne Cambra Contribution Level: 2]

Thank you Monica for posting this.

[Joy Miles Company: Avon Products, Inc Contribution Level: 2]

Thank you, Monica, I have been aware of this for years and no longer buy meat at the supermarket. One program showed how tons of beef were mixed and ground together, so one infected beast could transmit mad cow disease to a whole city. I prefer to support our local Mennonite farmer-butchers, where I am sure these conditions do not exist. And we need to support our local farmers, who are also small business owners and are a disappearing breed. As networkers, we should adopt the 100-mile rule, for our community, for our health and ultimately for the planet's ecology. Hopefully your post will educate more people to the reality behind the fancy packages in the supermarket. Thanks, Joy Miles

[monica odenwald Contribution Level: 3]

Hi and thanks for letting me know that you care from your replies. I cried too and realized I didn't want my ten or six year old to see this.
The truth is right now, that big businesses DO have a huge impact on our lives. After viewing marketing guru Seth Godin's video on marketing, spelling out how profit driven companies continue to spam us today with their advertising, I went web searching for the truth to DAIRYLAND.
I am featuring a big "bad" business and a really smart "good" business in my monthly EntrepreNews Letter starting next month.
For me the bottom line is to do what most of you said, buy locally and organic.
Oh and yes, Dean is right, sheep can mow lawns! Chickens can bring down the bug population and fertilize great big gardens and I even know people that earn a decent living off of their cow manure.
Do you know another big business that impacts our lives in a way we don't even realize from a health stand point?.....
Monica

[Joyce Penner Company: Life Force International Contribution Level: 8]

The video is tragic however please don't think that all farmers or for that matter slaughter houses are like this. For impact they have picked the worst of the worst and I agree, even one cow/pig/chicken to be bled out prior to death is inhumane.
BUT they are not all like this and it is extremely expensive for the farmers to allow range fed animals. The cost of meat/milk/eggs would skyrocket to the point many people on low incomes wouldn't be able to afford them.
Again, please understand, I am not advocating the type of treatment you see on that video but there is another side too, and that's our farmers. They are under a tremendous amount of pressure to produce whether it's animals or regular crops. And we have demanded it of them.
To your success,
Joyce Penner

[monica odenwald Contribution Level: 3]

Thank you Joyce, you are so right to say this in defense of the many dairy councils and local farmers who struggle just to bring important foods to our market place.

I also felt that using a ten minute video concentrating on the most evil of all footage with a suggestion towards vegetarianism was a little too selective and not very educational and universal.

The power of the media holds us all captive sometimes and can be used selectively to manipulate us. If they would have given more facts about where the footage was taken and how often and how prevalent these practices were, it would seem more educational and informative.

The video ruined my night and day until I realized it was biased this way.

Another awesome company I am a sales rep for, United EarthSmart products, competes against 'enviro" companies Ecolab that only invest millions of dollars into enviro projects. Their actual janitorial products are loaded with chemicals but they have built a powerful corporate image of being green. That image sells nowadays because people don't read labels.

Maybe the front end of the dairy industry boasts health publicly, but oh lord these BIG companies seem to be hiding a big bad secret and behind their butchers at that!

Thanks again.
Monica - My advice is to buy local, read labels and research beyond the fancy sales funnels and images.