Mar 18, 2009

Vegans Don't Eat Bugs, Worms or Parasites in Animal Flesh

The large liver fluke, is a parasite that attacks the livers of beef cattle. The only way to find the 1-inch wide and 2- to 3-inch long, reddish-brown, leech-like liver flukes are found after a cow has died or been slaughtered. U.S. Department of Agriculture regulations state the liver must be condemned and removed from the food supply if the fluke is found. The rest of the carcass can be processed as meat products.

Flukes are not to be confused with tapeworms, pinworms, roundworms, whipworms, or hookworms, fleas and ticks which can all be found in/on farmed animals as well. But not to worry... the meat industry has drugs for these too! But with all the chemicals fed to animals to control these nasty little organisms, one must wonder - is it not better to just go vegan?

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

This makes me hungry for USA beef. Fire up the grill!

Bea Elliott said...

Flukes and all I presume -

Anonymous said...

That's why I eat beef from a farmer that takes good care of his cattle so parasites aren't a problem. Just like keeping the bugs off your vegetables. And besides, I'm not a big liver fan anyway, but it is a great source of iron, very healthy.

Bea Elliott said...

Your farmer friend takes such good care of his animals that he kills them... We just had a rooster raid in my town - they claimed they took 'very good care' of the animals too. But, if the end is injury, violence or death I hardly call that "good care".

And I wouldn't recommend eating a liver either... Its function is to filter the many impurities and toxins that are a part of a living being. Of course I wouldn't recommend ingesting the flesh either as it contains the residue of what the liver missed.

Thankfully, there's no such harm in broccolli :)

Elaine Vigneault said...

Ugh! Gross.
So glad I'm vegan :)

Anonymous said...

rooster raid?

Bea Elliott said...

Hi Elaine! I'm glad your a (wonderful) vegan too :)

Anonymous: yes - a rooster raid... you know, another kind of unnecessary and crude treatment done to animals - in the name of "entertainment"...

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