Power of Knowledge and Education
of Animal Cruelty
Committed to educating the public about the cruelty involved in raising animals for food and the health benefits of eating certified organic meat verses factory farm meat.
In Canada, most cattle that are raised for consumption are injected with steroids and antibiotics, so they will grow rapidly and thus increase profit. This, of course compromises the quality of the meat. They are also forced to eat grain and/or animal parts, when cattle are meant to eat grass. This increases the fat content, decreases beta carotene, and is much less healthy than pasture-raised cattle.
Cattle are kept in small feedlots and pass on organisms to other cattle much more frequently than they do in a pasture.
A ban on feeding cattle animal parts has not yet been imposed in Canada. It is still common practice for food manufacturers to send road-kill including elk to be processed into animal food, even though government regulators have discovered thousands of Canadian elk infected with transmissible spongiform encephedopathy (the equivalent to mad cow disease in elk). The goals of many of these factory farmers are not to make a better product, but rather a cheaper product to compete in the marketplace.
In certified organic meat, there is no use of antibiotics or growth hormones, no genetically modified organisms (GMO's) permitted in the animals' feed and this is inspected by third party accredited certifying body.
Stricter laws are needed to ensure that the public is being sold safe and healthy meat products, that people are made aware of what is being injected into these animals, what they are fed and how they are raised. There also need to be stricter laws to ensure that diseased meat is not sold to the public.
