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From: Derek Moody on 20 Feb 2007 12:56 On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:39:47 +0000, Derek Moody <thisistheBDC(a)derekmoody.con> wrote: >http://www.carn-age.org.uk > C A R NA G E CANTERBURY ANIMAL RESPECT NETWORK for A GREEN ENVIRONMENT WHAT YOU EAT, WHAT YOU DRINK - Part 3 Let food be your medicine and medicine your food. Hippocrates (460-367 BC) 50 years of industrialised production have made food less safe, bringing with it a range of dangerous diseases The UK meat industry is a �16 billion business. No surprise, then,that besides bad practice and carelessness, there is also fraud. Besides BSE, salmonella, E coli 0157 etc, criminals are passing off unfit meat as fit to the public. Fraudsters are passing off mutton as goat meat, because goat meat prices are higher. Fraudsters are passing off petfood as fit for human consumption, and this meat can be bought even in high-class retailer shops. �multi-million conspiracies have been uncovered in Britain to 'recycle' petfood as human food; filthy warehouses have been found to contain mountains of dead chickens and parts of poultry which heaps had been left lying there for days, green and oozing such malevolent odours that the inspectors were physically sick. The meat was 'recycled' for human use by washing it in bleach and rinsing in salty water. While high-risk meat is now stained so that it cannot be used for human consumption, low-risk meat is not stained. However, these poultry pieces were originally low-risk . . . Fresh and frozen poultry parts are mixed together and sold as completely fresh - a dangerous illhealth practice, but more money can be charged for fresh poultry. Illegal abattoirs have sprung up: eg in Essex one was found with no licence, parts of the roof missing so it was exposed to the elements and to pigeons, which were flying around and defecating everywhere; the parts of illegally slaughtered sheep found, including smoked sheep's heads, were for Afro-Caribbean consumers. (BBC2 March 2002) EU agriculture ministers are discussing a target of 20% of land to be farmed organically by 2010. France is already aiming for 5% by 2005. Austria made just under 10% by 2000. Sweden intends to reduce energy use in food production by a factor of four by 2021: the big food barons will attempt to divert us from such a course: they see food as a market first, our health, animal welfare and the environment come a poor second. August 2001 Many people who eat fish call themselves 'vegetarians'. They are not, and as a result of this many restaurants, hospitals, etc, are using this to justify including dishes containing fish on their menus. This causes distress to vegetarians, who often eat fish by mistake as a result. If the non-meat eating fish-eaters want to label themselves, they are 'piscatarians'. The flesh of any animal is meat. The flesh of fish is meat. A fish-eater is a carnivore. ASPARTAME - THE SWEET POISON (Nutrasweet) "Think of aspartame as the drug equivalent of AIDS." "You don't know you are a victim until it is almost too late." IMPORTANT: If you are/have been suffering from ingesting aspartame (mainly diet drinks, light/sugar-free squashes - even those labelled 'natural' juices, yoghurt and gum, as well as some pharmaceuticals such as Vitamin C) and your symptoms have been relieved since avoiding such products, please contact Geoff Brewer, of Additives Survivors' Network (UK), at 63 Downlands Road, Devizes, Wilts SN10 5EF. Enclose a �1 cheque to The Green Network Charitable Trust for a basic info pack and membership details. ASN (UK) is collating details of survivors and liaising with the FSA on this important work - you do not have to join in order to register your case history. Also see MISSION POSSIBLE INTERNATIONAL, the magnificent mega campaign website on aspartame. http://www.dorway.com/ From Green World, Spring 2001. Carcinogens are the cause of cancer. Some of the food we eat contains trace carcinogens. Much of the dairy produce in Britain has trace levels of dioxin, affecting dairy products. Carcinogens are in the air we breathe . . . from power stations, radioactive processing, chemical plants, incinerators, waste tips, coke and steel works, Foot & Mouth Diseased animals burning on funeral pyres, etc. Industrial pollution is the main cause of cancer, and by 2005 one in every two people will die from cancer. Cancer institutes will not investigate the causes, because they are multi-million pound businesses dependent on the cancer epidemic not declining. The causes of cancer are known. So why continue to experiment on animals? Like the tobacco 'research' on animals that was exposed as a complete fraud when tobacco companies knew all along - from epidemiological information - that tobacco=death, the cancer/chemica�/indu$tria� mafia would rather we died of cancer than their bu$ine$$e$ died of closure. See also CONSUMER POWER Part 2. From an article by chef Antony Worrall Thompson in the Independent, 11 February 2001: ". . . then there is our high sugar intake. A 100 years ago, 4 lbs of sugar per person per year were consumed; today that figure has risen to 160 lbs. No wonder we have seen the incidence of diabetes increase 10-fold in the past 40 years . . . HEART ATTACK? For many heart attack victims, the first sign that anything is wrong is a searing pain, followed by a fatal heart attack . . . others have advance notice, and may get angina and/or other signals. Arteries have become dangerously clogged and the flow of blood/nutrition through the cardiovascular system has become impeded. So maybe the victim has a coronary bypass, or an angioplasty, to relieve the situation. Costly for victims and family in money, agony, anxiety, trauma, side effects. Here are some stats: risk of dying during bypass surgery - 4.6%-11.9%; risk of permanent brain damage from same - 15%-44%; recipients of bypass surgery for whom it prolongs life - 2%; risk of death during angioplasty - 0.4%-2.8%; risk of major complications developing during angioplasty - 10%; studies that have found that angioplasty prolongs life or prevents heart attacks - zero. Patients undergo bypass and angioplasty operations primarily to relieve angina and improve blood flow to the heart. Yet there is a 25% to 50% likelihood that within 6 months their blood vessels will again become blocked, and their chest pain will recur - assuming they continue to eat a meat-based diet. On the other hand, three-quarters of the patients who follow the renowned programme for reversing heart disease developed by Dean Ornish, MD, clinical professor of medicine and attending physician at the School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, experience marked and long-lasting reduction in angina - without surgery. The Ornish programme is made of of 5 components: low-fat whole foods, vegetarian near-vegan diet; half an hour a day of walking or other exercise; half an hour a day of stretching, meditation, relaxation; psychological and emotional support groups; no smoking. There are people who can't be bothered with all that. They want it easy. They want their old life to continue, with suitable props. So they may take cholesterol-lowering drugs and follow the American Heart Association programme. How many patients on the AHA programme achieve discernible reversal of atherosclerosis? 1 in 6. How many patients on Dr Ornish's programme achieve discernible reversal of atherosclerosis? 3 out of 4. What kind of change do patients on average see in arterial blockage in 5 years on the AHA programme? A 28% increase. What kind of change do patients on average see in arterial blockage in 5 years on the Ornish programme? An 8% reduction. There is a reason why more than 40 insurance companies now cover all or part of the Ornish programme. Nearly 80% of patients with severely clogged arteries who follow the Ornish programme for a year or more are able to avoid bypass or angioplasty . . . people who follow the Ornish programme consistently show dramatic improvements, regardless of how old or ill they are. After hearing criticism that his programme was too drastic, Ornish replied: "I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it's medically conservative to cut people open or put them on powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives." Information from John Robbins' new book "The Food Revolution". August 2001 Hollywood celebrity paid by Meat Board to tout beef as 'Real food for real people': James Garner. Medical event experienced by James Garner in April 1988: Quintuple coronary artery bypass surgery. Small print is appearing onto food labels saying "This product has been electronically pasteurised/treated by cold pasteurisation/sterilised with E-beam technology". What this means is that the products have been irradiated. Quite apart from what it can do to the product, this process could be used to cover up bad food processing and monitoring standards. Of course, the National Farmers Union encouraged the Food Standards Agency to consider allowing irradiation in meat production. Irradiated food has included dried herbs, spices, fresh herbs and soft fruit - none of these items had declared the irradiation on the label. The food industry - who never cease to think up new ways of selling consumers short (BSE, GM food, denatured produce from agrichem and intensive farming, homogenisation, hydrogenation, flavoured, coloured, standardised) has continued to lobby for irradiation to be permitted in the processing of a wide range of foods. When food goes off, unpleasant colour and smells warn us that we shouldn't eat the food. Irradiation masks these vital signs. And good food doesn't need irradiating. Food Magazine, January/March 2001 To be sold in the UK, irradiated foods must have been irradiated at an EC-approved facility - only in the EU so far, so food irradiated in China or the USA is not permitted to be sold in EU member states. Irradiated foods permitted for sale in the UK: Herbs, spices, seasonings, condiments, potatoes, yams, onions,garlic, shallots, vegetables, pulses, fruit, fungi, tomatoes, cereals, poultry, fish and shellfish. Food irradiation will allow food production to be shifted increasingly to the developing world, as extended storage times and delayed ripening and decay will allow foods to be transported further, from wherever is cheapest, benefitting multinational food production and shipping companies. Food Magazine, July/September 2001 There's a little red tractor that's appearing on food labels, which is a National Farmers Union logo for their British Farm Standards scheme of consumer assurance that the food is of the 'highest standard' etc etc 'with the interests of livestock and the environment in mind' blah blah. Foreign products can carry the sign. Tractor food can be irradiated. There is no stipulation about excluding GM foods. GM ingredients are allowed in animal feed. Most hormones, including BST, would no doubt be allowed if it weren't for the fact that they're banned at present. As for the environment, it seems that strict environmental rules would clutter the farm assurance standards unduly, according to the Royal Agricultural College. (Info from Food Magazine, January/March 2001) We've since been shown once again an example of the NFU's interest of livestock and environment - foot & mouth disease. What will the next disease be once this is over? Traces of pesticides can be found on more than half of French vegetables, fruits and cereals, an EU survey reveals. France, which often claims to be leading 'natural' food production in Europe, comes close to bottom of the survey on traces of pesticides on food. Only the Netherlands and Austria do worse. Britain comes off relatively well. France is the second largest user of pesticides in the world, behind the US, consuming 100,000 tonnes a year. Pesticides can cause cancer, reduce fertility, and damage wildlife. August 2001 From 2004 in Europe it will be compulsory for eggs to be labelled as to their farming method. Battery eggs will have to be labelled 'Eggs from caged hens'. However eggs imported into the EU will be allowed to label their eggs 'Method of production unknown' - this is because the EU is frightened of a WTO challenge. Your best move, if you eat eggs and products containing them, is to ask if they are free-range eggs. Producers/sellers/users of free-range eggs will be proud to advertise the fact. Germany has just passed a law banning the battery cage from 2007 (five years earlier than required by EU law) and they have prohibited the use of enriched cages from 2021. Almost half the British population is cutting back on meat or going vegetarian in the wake of BSE and other food scares. (Daily Mail, November 2000) Yeah, but eventually they miss their meat 'fix' and go back to eating it, until the next food scare comes along. After all, there's nothing else to eat, is there? If you cannot tell the difference between a carrot and a cow, then obviously you have a fabulous future in genetic engineering. The amount of the excitotoxins monosodium glutamate and the artificial sweetener aspartame added to our foods has soared. The brains of people with brain disorders like Parkinson's and Alzheimers' disease produce higher levels of glutame (in MSG) and aspartate (in aspartame) naturally, but levels with which the brain can cope in many cases. Introducing more through these excitotoxins in food may make all the difference between a mild form of the diseases and full-blown cases. Note that 100% of the studies funded by aspartame manufacturers could find no evidence of any danger, whereas 92% of the independently funded studies identified dangers. Environment and Health News Despite repeated warnings from consumer advocates, the US Department of Agriculture's meat inspection system remains grossly inadequate, and consumers are now being told to 'expect' animal products to be tainted. And this is the stuff they export to Europe, and the bog-standards they want Europe to stoop to. In some restaurants fish are actually eaten alive. They are eviscerated and filleted and delivered to the serving table. They are still alive, believe it or not. The eye is covered with a serviette so that the fish will not see and react to diners reaching for parts of his/her body. "We each reached in with our chopsticks. The fish buckled . . . now, as it slowly died, would it feel each piece of its body lifted away and hungrily masticated?" NOT ORGANIC UNLESS SO LABELLED (And even with labelling, the claim may not be true - check the source) Cultivated mushrooms - grown in compost made up from straw and pig and horse manure. Some with DPM - dried poultry manure and processed waste such as faeces, feathers, dead birds. Extremely toxic insecticides and soil sterilants are used. Tomatoes - green ones are ripened with ethylene gas. Fruits and vegetables - all citrus fruits are routinely waxed unless labelled unwaxed. Controlled-atmosphere storage extends shelf life of foods. Ethylene-gassed to ripen. All this creates a counterfeit freshness but the products have subtly worsened. Fruits may also be treated with post-harvest chemical preservatives to delay spoilage during transport and storing; the chemicals (like thiabenzadole [banned in the US], diphenyl, orthophenyl phenol and sodium orthophenyl phenate) are still on the skins when we buy them. Potatoes - treated with anti-sprouting Tecnazene, a toxic fungicide. Drinking milk does not prevent osteoporosis. Western nations, highest consumers of dairy products, have the highest rates of osteoporosis. Get calcium from the plant world - beans, seeds, nuts, broccoli. Acne is caused by greasy high-fat meat and iodine found largely in beef and salty snacks. (PETA) Sushi doesn't have to contain raw fish. Literally translated, it means vinegared rice, usually short grain, combined with other ingredients, rolled in nori or hand formed. Sushi can be made with cooked Japanese noodles or even leafy greens, creating endless variations. For easy instructions see Eden Foods. http://www.edenfoods.com/shop/sushi1.html The HB&WAR group held a very successful fundraising fair in Herne Bay in support of Animal Aid's Veggie Month ("Go Veggie") which is celebrated all over the country each year to inform the public of a healthy veggie diet. The group produced home-made vegetarian and vegan food. Each year the French import 200 MILLION frogs so that they can eat their legs. A large number of these frogs come from Poland. America's horses - former companions, unprofitable racehorses and wild horses - are rounded up and sent to slaughterhouses to provide meat for European and Asian markets. June 2001 Removing pesticides from our water supplies costs �121 million a year. CRIME ON A PLATE More than 350 kilos of Sevruga caviar, which comes from the endangered Star sturgeon, was seized at Manchester airport's cargo centre. Illegally poached sturgeon accounts for about 90% of caviar on the market and is a lucrative source of profit for organised crime gangs. Star sturgeon, whose numbers have declined by 80% in recent years, are easy to catch because of their large size and predictable breeding habits. They spawn in the Caspian Sea and Volga river. October 2001 IT'S BECAUSE THEY'RE CARNIVORES. You're a veg*an and, let's say, you've lived 60 or 70 years without suffering more than odd discomforts and accidents: a couple of colds and a few gnat bites, say. Some people apparently believe veg*ans claim everlasting life and no illness or accidents. You get to age 80 or more and your eyes grow dim, your hearing is not acute, you suffer a serious problem or two, and guess what? Out it comes: "Is your illhealth the result of being a veg*an?" The (say) 40-year-old speaker probably already has a sizeable history of operations/illnesses/medication . . . So remember - next time you hear the litany of the unwell from a carnivore, ask them "Is your illhealth the result of being a carnivore?" Just as many carnivores suffer from iron deficiency as veg*ans, but medics make more drama out of it for the latter, for some reason. Some people just cannot absorb iron as well as others, whether they be carnivores or veg*ans. SANTIAGO, Chile - Chilean health authorities said that they found E coli bacteria in chicken burgers sold by fast-food chain McDonald's that could produce infectious diarrhea and vomiting. October 2001 The Bristol Cancer Help Centre's primary advice is to incorporate a wide variety of fresh fruit and vegetables into every meal, to eat as much raw food as possible and 'if food is boiled or steamed, to find a way of using that water, either by adding it to a juice or a sauce', says Dr Rosy Daniel . . . this might mean shopping for fruit and veg twice a week or daily, rather than stocking up for the week and then storing them in the fridge. The animals on Britain's filthy factory farms are diseased from head to toe. It's not just swinefever or foot & mouth - it's a string of infections in pigs, chickens, turkeys, ducks, most egg-laying hens . . .. For example, at 3 weeks old piglets are so young that their digestive and immune systems aren't properly formed, yet they are forcibly removed from their mums. The piglets have to be given drugs to keep them alive. . . then more drugs to make them grow faster than is natural . . . at each stage of their short lives they are given more drugs and antibiotics to ward off streptococcal meningitis, enzootic pneumonia, swine dysentry, colitis, pleuropneumonia, proliferative enterophathy, enteritis, respiratory disease, oedema, Glassers disease, spirochaetal diarrhoea . . . the list goes on. Many pigs just don't make it. Those who do are eaten by you and your children. Enjoy! Viva! January 2002 Excerpts from Food Magazine's review of 'Fast Food Nation', by E Schlosser, April/June 2001: "One of the book's strongest features is that it is not just another single-issue diatribe. A perusal of the index leads to detailed analyses of the corporate infiltration of state school systems, the buying and selling of politicians, the emasculation of trade unions, the bankrupting of small farmers and many other integrally related topics. "The chapter on the artificial creation of flavour encapsulates the entire commercial food industry. Nothing that comes out of a modern food factory has any inherent identity whatsoever; every product's taste is the result of a complex chemical formula. "For instance, a typical 'strawberry' flavour may consist of: amyl acetate, amyl butyrate, amyl valerate, anethol, anisyl formate, benzyl acetate, benzyl isobutyrate, butyric acid, cinnamyl isobutyrate, cinnamyl valerate, cognac essential oil, diacetyl, dipropyl ketone, ethyl acetate, ethyl amyl ketone, ethyl butyrate, ethyl cinnamate, ethyl heptanoate, ethyl heptylate, ethyl lactate, ethyl methylphenylglycidate, ethyl nitrate, ethyl propionate, ethyl valerate, heliotropin, hydroxyphenyl-2-butanone (10% solution in alcohol), a-ionone, isobutyl anthranilate, isobutyl butyrate, lemon essential oil, maltol, 4-methylacetophenone, methyl anthranilate, methyl benzoate, methyl cinnamate, methyl heptine carbonate, methyl naphthyl ketone, methyl salicylate, mint essential oil, neroli essential oil, nerolin, neryl isobutyrate, orris butter, phenethyl alcohol, rose, rum ether, g-undecalactone, vanillin, and solvent." This 'treatment' of and in our foods is internationally applicable. Excerpt from letter to The Independent, 26 July 2002: " . . .The reasons why people eat so badly are easy to see. First and foremost laziness, secondly stupidity and thirdly defective taste buds. LS & BS, Carmarthenshire" According to latest statistics, 9 out of 10 parents in the UK take their children to McDonald's. July 2002 Many people like to think that the meat, eggs and dairy products they buy - mostly from supermarkets - come from animals kept in high welfare systems, especially if the product carries a 'Farm Assured' or 'British Farm Standard' label. Compassion in World Farming has found that these schemes can, scandalously, fail badly on animal welfare. CIWF has found that 78% of the UK's 30 million laying hens are still kept in battery cages and many of their eggs are sold under farm assurance labels; 80% of the chickens reared for their meat in the UK - under the little red tractor label - are packed together in factory farms even more tightly than is laid down by government guidelines, and the government lets them get away with it. 'Farm Assured' means little more for the animals than assured pain, assured filth, assured confinement and assured overcrowding.CIWF, April 2002 Each year millions of dogs and hundreds of thousands of cats are tortured, killed and eaten in SOUTH KOREA in the name of mythical healthy benefits. Despite the disclaimers of scientists, many Koreans continue to believe that dog-meat stew (boshintang) enhances male virility and that cat juice (goyangi soju) alleviates rheumatoid arthritis and neuralgia. There are laws in Korea prohibiting cruelty to animals, but they are not enforced. The plight of these animals is horrific. Raised in rural farms or urban backyards, dogs spend their entire lives in cramped wire cages where they suffer from dehydration and hunger, exposure to the elements, unsanitary conditions, and abuse. They are then dragged from their cages and deliberately tortured to death. Most dogs are hung, bludgeoned with pipes or hammers, or electrocuted. A blowtorch is then used to burn the hair off and brown the skin, sometimes while the dog is still alive. These violent methods of killing are thought to both tenderize the flesh and improve the aphrodisiacal quality by stimulating the release of adrenaline in the tissues. The more the dog suffers, the more flavourful and beneficial the meat is thought to be - as was once thought, up until the 19th century, of beef in England, where first the bull was horrifically baited before being killed and eaten. Some restaurants secretly add steroids, opium and other substances to dog meat stew in an effort to produce an aphrodisiacal effect that they can then attribute to the meat itself. Most Koreans do not eat dog meat. Dog eating is more about the manipulation of the public for commercial profit than it is about Korean cultural tradition. Feral cats are trapped in wire cages and killed by being placed in a sack and pounded against the ground, while domesticated cats are often dropped alive into a cauldron of boiling water and liquefied. April 2002 For more information, please see INTERNATIONAL AID FOR KOREAN ANIMALS/KOREA ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY http://www.koreananimals.org/ "While passing by a restaurant window in Korea I saw ... a middle-aged woman walking slowing among rows of hissing and boiling cauldrons. In her arms she held a cat. Stopping at one of the hot kettles she dropped the cat into the boiling water. Hideously scalded the cat screamed and clawed its way out, but the woman pushed it back in with a stick." August 2002 ANIMALS ASIA http://www.animalsasia.org/ are working hard to prevent the appalling treatment of beautiful dogs and cats being caught for food in CHINA and to save as many of them as they can. In Chinese animal markets you will find these animals crammed inside crates, one animal on top of the other, unable to move even their heads. To unload, the crates are thrown from lorries from a height of 15 ft to the concrete floor. Of COURSE, many of the animals are horribly injured, many have suffocated to death, many are diseased, many are dying. One small crate may have 4 or 5 large terrified dogs squashed inside it, or 15 cats with their faces squashed to the wires of the crate so tightly their faces are distorted, their paws sticking out. It is a truly awful sight. And what further fate awaits them? The dogs and cats are beaten to death, or boiled alive, or stabbed and strangled on the spot, or tightly bound with wire and stuffed into sacks to be slaughtered at restaurants. You want a Chinese? Go to the Animals Asia site first and see what you can do to help them. Robert Cohen, aka the NOTMILKMAN, made a strong case for indicting dairy products as a cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Some of his references are: "Hypersensitivity to milk is implicated as a cause of sudden death in infancy. (The Lancet, vol 2, 7160, Nov 1960)"; "Those who consumed cow's milk were fourteen times more likely to die from diarrhea-related complications and four times more likely to die of pneumonia than were breast-fed babies. Intolerance and allergy to cow's milk products is a factor in sudden infant death syndrome. (The Lancet, vol 344, Nov 5 1994)." "Formula-fed infants developed symptoms of allergic rejection to cow milk proteins before one month of age. The majority of infants tested had two or more symptoms. . . About 50-70% experienced rashes or other skin symptoms, 50-60% gastrointestinal symptoms, and 20-30% respiratory symptoms. The recommended therapy is to avoid cow's milk. (Pediatr.-Allergy-Immunol., 1994, 5(5 Suppl)." Also see NOTMILK. http://www.notmilk.com/ To prevent the dreadful waste of beautiful creatures like whales you can help by being aware of what you are eating. Many products like biscuits and chocolates contain "marine fat" which often contains whale fat. You can enquire directly at the manufacturer or simply read the ingredients on the packaging. New evidence that the process of irradiating food can change the chemicals in food has emerged in tests of eggs by researchers in South Korea. They have found that compounds called hydrocarbons can be formed from an egg's natural fats, and that the quantity of hydrocarbons formed is directly linked to the degree of exposure to radiation. Hydrocarbons are a large family of chemicals, some of which can cause allergic reactions in sensitive individuals, and some of which are known carcinogens. Bacteria found in a sample of canned meat that was assumed to be sterilised have shown a remarkable ability to withstand irradiation. Widespread use of food irradiation technology could increase the chance of harmful bacteria developing resistance, leading to potential health problems. Each year, billions of animals are slaughtered for food, millions more for their pelts, countless others are used in experiments, and still others killed for sport. Anyone who eats meat or animal products needs to be aware that their dietary choices sustain an industry of suffering and murder. When you eat at McDonald's, enjoy a breakfast of bacon, eggs and sausage or when you drink a glass of milk, you are creating the market. You are financing the pain, terror and torture that make up the short, miserable life, and inevitable death of an animal. Words like beef, pork, poultry and ham are used by the meat industries to convince consumers that they are eating something other than animals. From 'Free the Animals' KANGAROOS Demand for kangaroo meat has jumped in Balkan countries where diners are experimenting with kangaroo steaks, salami and sausages. The Balkans imported 2,000 tonnes of kangaroo meat last year and a 20% growth is is expected in the region for 2002. The demand for kangaroo meat leapt by 20-30% last year in Western Europe, due to food scares triggered by mad cow disease, foot and mouth outbreaks and dioxin contamination. Australia is hoping to gain a foothold in Rumania - a country of 22 million, the biggest in the region. Animal rights groups are less active in the Balkans. Don Cairns, chief of Australia's Trade Commission for the Balkans daid "There are 35 million kangaroos(around Australia), they become a pest." (Information from Planet Ark, June 2002) See also FASHION Part 2. http://www.carn-age.org.uk/fashion2.html The origin of the term 'vegetarian' has nothing to do with vegetables. It is taken from the Latin word for 'lively' - vegetus.
From: Derek Moody on 20 Feb 2007 14:42
In article <iadmt2pt7sik2jur0hi492p2chunqfn99m(a)4ax.com>, Derek Moody <URL:mailto:thisistheBDC(a)derekmoody.con> wrote: Nothing of the sort. Pete the troll is forging replies to his own forged posts. > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:39:47 +0000, Derek Moody > <thisistheBDC(a)derekmoody.con> wrote: > > >http://www.carn-age.org.uk > > > > C A R NA G E As Pete never reads what he posts and desires only to provoke argument it is safest to assume that anything he espouses is at least unsafe and probably malicious. Cheerio, -- >> derek(a)farm-direct.co.uk >> http://www.farm-direct.co.uk/ |