Re: Belgium dioxin scandal

Frits v/d Laan (F.vd.Laan@inter.nl.net)
Sat, 24 Jul 1999 18:55:49 +1

> BELGIUM-DIOXIN SCANDAL
> July 16 /99
> AP
> BRUSSELS, Belgium //-SNIP//. Separately, the
> story says that Belgian farmers complained that experts determining
> which farms can resume deliveries to slaughterhouses are moving too
> slowly and urged the new government of Premier Guy Verhofstadt to
> replace them. Tens of thousands of pigs, cows and chickens are
> languishing in crowded conditions on Belgian farms. During a recent
> spell of hot weather, farm animals suffocated by the thousands in
> cramped, overheated conditions.
>
> Probably the question we don't want to ask is, why are the animals in
> "cramped, overheated consitions."

It's even worse. Because the chickens were to big to be slaughtered
they were thrown into the destructionovens and burned alive.
Who cares anyway.
The story in the newspaper did not tell how many were treated this
way but I think this is a very good reason to ask questions about
animalwelfare before you buy meat.
I don't eat industrial or intensive-farming meat for years anymore.
Organic meat at least is animalfriendly and (for the US) hormonefree
(in EU all meat is hormonefree)

Frits v/d Laan
Netherlands

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