Slaughterhouse Blues – Organization for Competitive Markets

America Returns to the Jungle

Mike Callicrate — Sat, 12 Dec 2015 17:41:07 +0000

A safe and secure food supply is essential to a free society The United States was always able to feed itself. Except for a few non-essentials like coffee, tea and bananas, we were self-sufficient. The British government, along with their corporate partner, the East India Company, saw unlimited potential to extract wealth through the American colonies. Our Founding Fathers, willing to fight for our freedom and sovereignty, risked their lives and the lives of many citizens, to save Read More ...

Animal Welfare vs. Worker Welfare

Don Stull — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 12:52:24 +0000

In early 2008 the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) released a video showing workers at a California slaughterhouse using electric prods on cattle unable to stand on their own (called downers) and ramming them with forklifts to make them stand for inspection. (Federal law requires that animals be able to walk into the slaughterhouse, and downed cattle are banned from human consumption because inability to stand may be a symptom what is commonly called mad cow Read More ...

Pink Slime: Dark Side of Industrial Food System Exposed

Mike Callicrate — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:55:36 +0000

by Mike Callicrate “Changes will not simply happen…Changes will occur when consumers realize what they’ve been eating, get angry, and demand something different…It remains our responsibility, with every vote and every dollar spent on food, to start making it right.” (Eric Schlosser’s foreword from Slaughterhouse Blues.) Schlosser is also the author of Fast Food Nation and co-producer of the film that awakened America, Food, Inc. It was a beautiful spring day in 1996. American’s were convinced that eating Read More ...