British Meat Ingrediants List

"...rat feces; cow urine; cow pus; tranquilizers; ground up cow heads ('puke heads' contaminated with hair, dirt, and ingest); chicken and cow manure (a 'beef  fattener' with e-coli contamination) ; 'rendered' cows and sheep (recycled animal parts, diseased 'downers' and road kill added to animal feed); euthanized animals from human societies, etc.; growth steroid hormones (fatteners); radioactive isotopes; antibiotics (disease controllers); pesticides; herbicides; insecticides; larvicides; lethal euthanasia drugs such as sodium penabarbitol; a host of diseases from the cow, including pneumonia, bovine aids and perhaps mad cow chemicals like phosphorous to mask putrefaction; various carcinogenic chemicals, including dioxin (one of most deadly known chemicals, also present in Agent Orange)..."

This pig was not properly stunned before her throat was cut. She struggled so violently that she slipped her shackles and fell into the blood pit below. The slaughterman laughed as he shackled her back up. She was disembowelled, cut into pieces and packaged for the supermarket shelf.

A recent Viva investigation revealed that tens of millions of animals killed each year in British abattoirs regain consciousness before they die. Our fellow creatures experience the terror of hanging upside down in shackles and staring into the blood pit below as their life-blood drains away.

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For a moment, imagine what it feels like to hung up and unable to move because one's body has been paralysed by a severe electric shock. Imagine next what it feels like to be butchered by having one's throat cut - while one is still fully conscious.

Pigs are gentle, sensitive, intelligent and highly social creatures. They are functionally equivalent - both in their intelligence and capacity to suffer - to human infants and toddlers. The British meat industry kills about 15 million pigs each year. The full horror of their gruesome deaths defies easy description.

Slaughter first involves 'stunning'. This is followed by throat-slitting. Throat-slitting is also called 'sticking'. The terrified animals are usually stunned electrically by placing tongs on either side of the neck behind their ears.

In many cases, the 'stunning' is inadequate. This is because the tongs are not held in place for long enough. In numerous other cases, the tongs are 'incorrectly' placed. Typically, the voltages used are insufficient. In consequence, many pigs regain consciousness during bleeding-out, or even before throat-slitting. Thus our victims die agonised and terrified deaths.

British Meat and BSE
 

One of the less charming traditions of the UK meat industry has been to force herbivores to cannibalise the remains of their butchered companions. The consequences have been gruesome for animals and people alike. By promoting enforced cannibalism, UK agribusiness and the meat trade have unleashed the human analogue of bovine spongiform encephalopathy on the population at large.  Prion-based diseases have long incubation periods. These may extend two decades or more. The likely toll of future human victims of Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD), the human variant of BSE, is unknown.

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) has been dubbed "Mad Cow Disease". This is because of the signs of extreme distress and disordered gait which its victims display before death. BSE is a neuro-degenerative disease of cattle. BSE is invariably fatal. Its immediate cause lies in mysterious infectious proteins called prions.  Prions behave as infectious agents. Yet they are 100 times smaller than viruses. Their mechanism of replication is still unclear. All the prion diseases - new-variant-CJD is only the most notorious - are associated with the accumulation in the brain of an abnormal and protease-resistant isoform of the prion protein, PrP.  The British outbreak of BSE struck down around 160,000 cows in 1980s and 1990s. Long before conclusive proof became available, strong circumstantial evidence pointed to the macabre cost-saving practice of mixing the remains of sheep - including brains and bones - into cows' feed as the cause of the deadly syndrome.  In collusion with the British meat industry, however, the Meat and Livestock Commission ('MLC') and the Government continued to deny the possibility of species-to-species inoculation posing a threat to humans. Official denials and smear-tactics against opponents persisted long after the potential danger of eating the remains of infected animals became known to researchers.

Source: britishmeat.com