"Two hundred thirty six jobs lost with what I've been told is a salary close to $50,000 a year, that's going to be something over $11 million not rolling around in our community," said Paul Pfeifer, President, First National Bank of Holcomb. "And, as a general rule of thumb, is that it rolls over five to seven times, so you even take the bottom of that at five times and that's $55 million that's not rolling around in our community. That's huge."

So?  If we get rid of the maffia and drug cartels that would put a lot of people out of work too.

I really hope some of you do not take antibiotics when you have an infection. 

Mar 27, 2012 -- 7:33PM, christine3 wrote:

Pink slime’ is beef trimmings. It is made from waste trimmings that are simmered at a low heat until the fat separates from the muscle.It is run through a machine to separate the fat and muscle then it is sent through pipes where it is sprayed with ammonia before being packaged into meat bricks. The bricks are then frozen and sent to grocery stores where it is added to most ground beef as a filler.

Do you have a source for that?

If the ground meat you buy at a store has fillers in it, that must be on the label.

Now, you must tell us how the above, if true, is harmful.

Mar 27, 2012 -- 8:02PM, christine3 wrote:

There never was ammonium hydroxide in meat when my mother was a girl.

That's true, and more people died from E coli then too.

What all of this comes down to is the suitability for human consumption of bovine muscle tissue, commonly known as beef.

And eating beef has become problematic in recent years.

Once upon a time, cattle, which are foraging animals, ate grass, which is their natural food.  Nowadays, at least in the U.S., almost all cattle are fed grain in feedlots.  Why?  Because it is more profitable.

www.pbs.org/independentlens/kingcorn/cow...

Because grain is not a proper food for cattle, they must be fed large quantities of antibiotics, growth hormones, and protein supplements, along with the enormous quantities of corn, for the steer to grow big enough (1200 lbs) and fat enough for slaughter.

Since this is not a natural food for them, the cattle develop feedlot bloat, acidosis, ulcers, liver disease, and a weakened immune system.  Therefore, they must be fed more antibiotics to combat the various conditions, which leads to the development of anti-biotic-resistant bacteria.

onlygrassfed.com/pasture-vs-feedlot.html

Meat from grassfed cattle should be healthier, but then you have to factor in the fact that the grass those cattle are eating has been treated with fertilisers and herbicides.

Then, of course, you have the fact that the grasslands in the U.S. are not big enough to support all the cattle needed to feed the huge appetites of Americans for beef.  And, even if they were, the very fact of them means enormous quantities of methane gases are released into the atmosphere by the cattle, which damages the environment.  And methane is a far more potent gas than carbon dioxide.

Even if the grassfed cattle live more natural lives than those of the feedlots, their deaths are all the same: cruel and horrific.

And by the way, American beef has been banned in Europe.  Why?  Because of the hormones.

www.preventcancer.com/consumers/general/...

www.organicconsumers.org/Toxic/hormone_b...

American beef?  Even if I did eat meat, no way would I go anywhere near it.