The World Peace Diet: Eating For Spiritual Health And Social Harmony

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The conditions in slaughter plants today guarantee even more
toxic contamination in the meat we eat. Over the last twenty years,
line speeds have been rapidly accelerating and USDA inspection and
oversight has been diminishing; now with the passage of HAACP
(Hazard Analysis of Critical Control Points) in 1996, the meat industry
basically regulates and inspects itself. Eisnitz tells what workers in
signed affidavits say about the slaughterhouse production of the meat
we eat:
“Every day I saw black chicken, green chicken, chicken that stank, and
chicken with feces on it. Chicken like this is supposed to be thrown
away, but instead it would be sent down the line to be processed.”
An employee at another plant said, “I personally have seen rotten
meat—you can tell by the odor. This rotten meat is mixed with
fresh meat and sold for baby food. We are asked to mix it with the
fresh food, and this is the way it is sold. You can see the worms inside
the meat.”
Another worker, “in the department where chicken bones were
ground up and processed into chicken franks and bologna,” reported
that “almost continuously, the bones had an awful, foul odor.
Sometimes they came from other plants and had been sitting for
days. Often there were maggots on them. These bones were never
cleaned off and so the maggots were ground up with everything else
and remained in the final product.” 39
Because of the new “streamlined” inspection process, virtually anything
is allowed. Affidavits from USDA inspectors who now have
diminished authority in slaughter plants repeatedly tell the same shocking
story about the dangerous health implications of animal foods:
“I’ve seen birds with cancerous tumors come through regularly,
sometimes all day long. While on quality control, I’d pull off those I
saw, but I couldn’t possibly catch them all. Right after I’d put them
in the condemn barrel, foremen would have the floor workers hang
the birds back on the line.” 40