Navy Nuke, so you know, Halal packing plants have one of the lowest sanitation ratings in the U.S. A magazine for cattle breeders had an article on them several months ago.

Most of you who live in cities have no clue of what you are eating or how it gets to you. Kontak's comment on red meat made me laugh. Red meat being 'harmful' is another myth that has been pushed on the public by people with their own agenda, not with your best interest in mind.

'Organic' is another term most of you have no clue what the meaning is. I would much rather eat lettuce or some other vegetable that has been fertilized with nitrogen pellets than with pure unadulterated sh!t. It's no wonder there are so many outbreaks of e.coli nowadays. People think 'organic' means it's as pure as the wind driven snow, and it's actually filthy.

I'm nearly 50 years old. My family has farmed and ranched in the same area since the 1870s. I know how my food is processed and where it comes from. I rarely buy anything organic due to the health risk. I eat red meat damn near every meal, but I get plenty of exercise working on the ranch daily, not sitting behind a desk. I will NOT eat free-range chicken on a bet.

The American food industry is among the safest in the entire world. Al this recent hysteria is laughable. If you're over forty years old, what you're eating now is much much safer and better for you than much of what you ate growing up.

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Also, I refuse to eat anything from McDonald's and will not buy a Tyson product.

Causation is probably never proven- it probably never exists. There is never any single cause and effect, there are lots of things going on interacting with one another in a continuum, out of which we isolate a couple of pieces and infer cause. We infer cause- we don't actually ever experience it. What we're talking about is a degree of correlation- one that appears to be supported by all the evidence. Even on an everyday level, you can see this empirically without any scientific method. The people I know who eat the most fast food and get the least amount of exercise tend not to look so healthy. A bad diet and poor exercise can resemble what heavy drinking does- the effects look like people just age more.

I always get a kick out of when city people suddenly get a clue that meat comes from animals, and that one has to kill the animal to get the meat.

Dart is a good ole boy from Alabama so maybe that explains it.