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Old people auctioned off like cattle in online eBay-style website in the UK

12/15/2015 - Apparently England's health care system is strained to the point that elder care distribution goes to the lowest bidder. The UK system itself is open to the current e-bay style auctioning because family members of those too elderly to care for themselves, or too much trouble for those family members,...

China unveils cloning factory to produce 1 million cloned cattle per year ... Cloned humans for organ harvesting will be next

12/7/2015 - For the Chinese, this is considered to be a major scientific breakthrough. For the planet, however, probably not so much. As reported by the UK's Telegraph, the Chinese are set to open the world's largest animal "cloning factory" in the near future, that is expected to produce one million calves...

Beef thefts on the rise nationwide as record-high prices disrupt Americans' food supply

11/17/2015 - As beef prices climb to record highs, more and more people are resorting to shoplifting to get their hands on it. A recent CBS News article reported on the trend, pointing out the fact that meat is the most popular food item for thieves. The problem is becoming worse as the cost of beef increases,...

Consumer Reports finds hamburger from grass-fed and organic cattle poses fewer health risks

8/27/2015 - Consumer Reports tested 300 samples (458 pounds) of hamburger from 103 stores from 26 cities for bacterial contamination, comparing "sustainable" meat to conventional meat. (Sustainable, in this study, referred to beef from cattle that was not given antibiotics). What they found was both enlightening...

Scientists inject nematode genes into cattle DNA to alter beef composition

7/22/2015 - Scientists are celebrating the "successful" genetic engineering of cows -- spliced with genes from nematode worms -- that make beef with a higher content of omega-3 fatty acids, in a study conducted by researchers from Northwest A&F University and the National Beef Cattle Improvement Centre (both in...

Thieves suspected in disappearance of 150 cattle as beef prices skyrocket

12/28/2014 - A recent headline in The Spokesman-Review seemed to have been pulled right out of the Old West: "Rustling suspected as Idaho cattle herds vanish." The article describes how three ranchers have had 150 cattle "go missing" over the last few weeks. Those cattle are estimated to be worth $350,000, about...

BLM has been running land seizure regime for years

5/9/2014 - The Bureau of Land Management, created in 1946 under the federal government's department of the interior, now owns a whopping 247.3 million acres, or one-eighth of American lands. Most BLM land is out West. In 1994, policy makers enacted stricter land regulations requiring that ranchers pay double what...

BLM committed animal atrocities, shot cows from helicopters, constructed mass graves at Bundy Ranch

4/16/2014 - It is now emerging that the Bureau of Land Management committed horrific atrocities against cattle during its armed occupation and siege of the Bundy Ranch near Bunkerville, Nevada. Photos are now emerging of the mass graves where BLM hastily tried to bury the cattle they killed. BLM agents used government...

The People vs. BLM: Liberty defeats govt. tyranny as feds release all cattle at Bundy Ranch

4/12/2014 - Breaking news: The BLM, now in a full retreat against the Citizens of the United States of America, has announced a stand down and has begun releasing the Bundy family's cattle from the BLM's "bovine concentration camps." This has just been confirmed by the Bundy family on their Facebook page. Also,...

BLM fracking racket exposed! Armed siege and cattle theft from Bundy ranch really about fracking leases

4/10/2014 - The Bureau of Land Management says its 200-man armed siege of the Cliven Bundy ranch in Nevada is all about protecting an "endangered tortoise." But a Natural News investigation has found that BLM is actually in the business of raking in millions of dollars by leasing Nevada lands to energy companies...

U.S. government snipers, militarized police with automatic weapons surround cattle ranch in Nevada and demand $1 million in payments

4/9/2014 - The federal government is out of control yet again, staging a heavily militarized siege of the Bundy cattle ranch in Nevada, where the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has decided to bring a literal army of heavily armed "soldiers" to intimidate the Bundy family and steal his hundreds of cattle.(1) The...

FDA cracking down on cattle operations that use dangerous drugs at illegal doses

2/10/2014 - Following an announcement made late last year about new voluntary guidelines for antibiotic use on factory farms, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has decided to crack down on the use of dangerous veterinary pharmaceuticals at illegal doses on factory farms. A recent letter issued to Shank...

Western drought leads to smallest cattle herd in 61 years, organic food shortages

2/5/2014 - It is shaping up to be an exceptionally tough year for agriculture in America, where persistent drought and erratic weather patterns across much of the nation have led to the smallest overall cattle herd in 61 years, according to the latest data, as well as widespread food shortages that have been particularly...

Want some ractopamine with your cheeseburger? See the list of drugs the USDA still allows to be used in cattle

1/27/2014 - Unless you are seeking out meat that is certified organic, certified antibiotic- and hormone-free or raised by a local farmer you know and trust, chances are very good that you are eating plenty of pharmaceutical drugs with your cheeseburger. The FDA has approved a long list of dozens and dozens...

Tyson Foods announces it will stop buying meat cattle raised on cruel Zilmax drug

8/16/2013 - Though clearly a move to protect its own profits rather than safeguard public health, industrial meat processor Tyson Foods Inc. nonetheless announced recently that it will no longer accept for processing cattle that have been treated with the growth-accelerating drug, Zilmax. According to reports,...

Tyson, Cargill among others now drugging your meat with Merck's Zilmax

2/22/2013 2:04:56 PM - Merck scientists have introduced an FDA approved drug to the meat industry - Zilmax. This drug bulks up cattle in the last few weeks of their lives, bringing in more revenue for feedlot owners. Four major meat companies now use Zilmax, including Tyson Foods, JBS SA, Cargill, and National Beef Packing...

Some U.S. farmers now feeding their cattle gummy worms, marshmallows, and ice cream sprinkles in response to skyrocketing feed costs

9/28/2012 - The cost of genetically-modified (GM) corn and soy feed for conventional cattle is surging so high, and availability plunging so low, as a result of persistent drought conditions and resultant crop failures that conventional feedlot farmers are having to seek out less expensive and more plentiful alternatives....

Desperate farmers turn to feeding their cattle candy loaded with corn syrup

8/21/2012 - Desperate times call for desperate measures, and no question the current drought spanning much of the nation's mid-section has left many a farmer desperate. For some cattle; however, things are pretty sweet at the moment. That's because as feed becomes harder to get and more expensive, some farmers...

Health Ranger investigates cyanide-producing Tifton grass on cattle ranch in Elgin, Texas

6/26/2012 - Today I visited the ranch of Jerry Abel in Elgin, Texas, site of the mysterious death of 15 cattle after exposure to cyanide gas spontaneously produced by hybridized Bermuda - Tifton-85 forage grasses. This is a story with nationwide interest, having also been covered by CBS News and others (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57459357/gm-grass-linked-to-texas-cattle-deaths/). Along...

EPA declares hay a pollutant in effort to drive small, mid-sized family cattle ranchers out of business

9/9/2011 - The assault against American industry and individual livelihood continues -- and no, it is not coming from Al-Qaeda or other foreign terrorists. A recent report from R-CALF USA, an advocacy group for American cattle producers, says the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has declared harmless cattle...

How bad is the drought in Texas, really?

9/4/2011 - As I've been living in Austin, Texas, for a while, I thought I would report on the Texas drought situation first hand. How bad is the drought situation here? It's critically bad, actually. Even the wildlife are facing starvation and dying of thirst. I saw some wild pigs the other night (they're quite...

Hundreds of beef cattle contaminated by Fukushima radiation have been shipped all over Japan, inspection finds

7/23/2011 - The Fukushima Prefecture, a roughly 5,300 square mile region in Japan where the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility is located, recently conducted an area-wide inspection of local farms after discovering levels of radioactive cesium three-to-six times higher than maximum safety thresholds in...

10,000 cattle in Vietnam mysteriously die from cold weather

1/20/2011 - Thousands of cattle recently turned up dead in various Vietnamese provinces, reportedly due to the long cold spell that has hit the area in recent weeks. Officials from the Veterinary Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) had allegedly been working with local cities...

What's really in that burger? E.coli and chicken feces both allowed by USDA

11/6/2009 - There are 14 billion hamburgers consumed each year in the United States alone. The people who eat those burgers, though, have little knowledge of what's actually in them. Current USDA regulations, for example, openly allow beef contaminated with E. coli to be repackaged, cooked and sold as ready-to-eat...

Why You Should Avoid Fast Food at All Costs

1/6/2009 - Most people today are usually aware that fast food is not the healthiest food to eat. Typically, the majority of people eat fast food several times a week or more. People generally eat fast food for a few main reasons, mostly because it's convenient, cheap and usually tastes pretty good. The cost...

No End Seen to Destruction of Farm Output Capacity and Food Shortages

8/31/2008 - Farmers are blasting the role of the food cartels in destroying farm output capacity, creating food shortages and producing monopolistic conditions. In a recent interview for Executive Intelligence Review, Frank Endres, board member of the National Farmers Organization, focused on newly announced acquisitions...

No End Seen to Cartel's Destruction of Food Capacity

8/29/2008 - Farmers are blasting the role of the food cartels in destroying farm output capacity, creating food shortages and producing monopolistic conditions. In a recent interview for Executive Intelligence Review, Frank Endres, board member of the National Farmers Organization, focused on newly announced acquisitions...

E. Coli Outbreak and Ethanol By-Product - Is There a Link?

2/5/2008 - On September 23rd, 2007 a 20 year old Cold Spring, MN woman named Stephanie Smith ate E. coli contaminated ground beef. Five days later, with severe intestinal cramping she was admitted to a local hospital. Today she is in a drug-induced coma at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. While ethanol production...

Children herded like cattle into Maryland courthouse for forced vaccinations as armed police and attack dogs stand guard

11/19/2007 - Following the State of Maryland's threats against parents who refuse to have their children vaccinated, children were herded into a Price George County courthouse being guarded by armed personnel with attack dogs. Inside, the children were forcibly vaccinated, many against their will, under orders from...

Cattle raised for beef cause more damage to planet than emissions from cars, report finds

12/14/2006 - Rising gas prices and global warming issues have spurred an increased interest in clean cars, but a report by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization suggests that the real culprit for the latter problem isn't the car but the cow. The 400-page report, entitled Livestock's Long Shadow,...

Contaminated cattle feed the likely cause of mad cow disease in Canada

8/28/2006 - The June case of a bovine infected with mad cow disease -- the country's seventh since 2003 -- was most likely cased by contaminated feed at a manufacturing plant, concluded a Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) investigation Thursday. Experts believe that bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)...

Mad cow risk still present as cattle feed in nine states found to contain banned cow remains

6/23/2006 - -- Livestock feed manufacturer H.J. Baker & Bro. has issued a recall for supplements sold in nine states that may have been contaminated with cattle remains, a violation of a 1997 ban meant to protect against the spread of mad cow disease. Samples of two supplements added to dairy cattle feed tested...

The true horrors of pet food revealed: Prepare to be shocked by what goes into dog food and cat food

10/21/2005 - If you check the labels on grocery store foods, you've probably already begun to see that the list of ingredients doesn't always tell the whole truth about what's in your food. The same goes for your pets' food. Behind innocent-sounding words like "meat byproducts" and "meat meal" are horrific manufacturing...

Mad cow madness: USDA lies and the coming collapse of the U.S. beef industry

9/14/2005 - Welcome to Mad Cow Madness! If you've ever wondered what's really going on with mad cow disease in the United States, here's the real story. Let's talk about this downer cow that was recently confirmed as having mad cow disease. It only took... let's see... seven months for the USDA to confirm that...

Hidden mad cow epidemic infected 300,000 cattle, says French government

7/3/2004 - This is one of the most shocking reports ever issued by the French government: a mad cow disease epidemic swept through cow herds in that country -- entirely undetected by authorities. In the past 13 years, the report says, more than 300,000 cattle were infected, and 50,000 such cattle entered the human...

USDA is too tough on cattle industry, say lawmakers from Virginia and Texas

1/22/2004 8:52:45 AM - The USDA, which has said it will not even require the testing of herds for mad cow disease, is now being criticized for being too tough on the cattle industry. Who's laying out this criticism? Two lawmakers from Virginia and Texas, of course. You can hardly blame them, though: they're just trying...

Growth hormone runoff from cattle ranches affects fish in streams

1/5/2004 2:05:19 PM - Here's yet more research showing the widespread, harmful effects of the use of growth hormones on cattle. According to this study, these growth hormones wash off ranch land and into rivers and streams. There, they impact the fish populations, causing havoc with the reproductive systems of those...

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