USA: Stop Eating Meat, Says Jewish Vegetarians of North America

Feb. 18, 2008

Yesterday, February 17, the USDA issued the largest recall of beef in U.S. history after the investigation by the Humane Society of the United States of a dairy cow slaughter plant in Southern California. The recall of 143 million pounds of beef came after slaughter plant workers were caught on video torturing crippled cattle, and two weeks after the USDA shut down that slaughter plant.

According to the Jewish Vegetarians of North America (JVNA), New York, this should be a wake-up call to the importance of shifting away from animal-based diets as the consumption of beef and other animal products is a major factor behind an epidemic of heart disease, several forms of cancer, diabetes, obesity and other diseases. The meat industry claims that the mistreatment of animals at the California slaughterhouse is an exception, but they ignore that about 10 billion animals in the United States are living in horrible conditions every minute on factory farms, prior to slaughter.

The production of more than 50 billion animals worldwide annually for slaughter is contributing significantly to global warming and other environmental threats that imperil all of humanity......

Source: Stop Eating Meat, Says Jewish Vegetarians of North America

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