[Newsbot]

Title: 'Dog lard sale' probed in Poland
Category: World
Posted By: snookums
Date: 2009-08-06 12:23:39

[GreenTiger]

I would like to put this woman in the same cage as Michael Vicks dogs and ring the dinner bell.

[leewgrant]

Don't they do the same things to geese in France?

[Choban]

Um Dog lard..... Health supplement?
Am I missing something here?

[ridenrain]

leewgrant leewgrant:

Don't they do the same things to geese in France?

Foie gras is a food product made of the liver of a duck or goose that has been force fed corn. It's far more cruel but this is still really creepy.

[Mukluk]

I love how we somehow culturally decide which animals are ok to slaughter for our use, and which ones are not. I also love the picture of the cute puppy in the article to give an extra tug on the heart strings.

I cringe at the thought of slaughtering dogs for lard, but isn't that just my cultural bias? Check this out:

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Alberta police are questioning a woman suspected of fattening up cattle and slaughtering them to sell the meat as food, reports say.

The police said 28 well-fed cows, including mature cattle and yearlings, were found in fences on a farm, along with frozen meat, AFP news agency said.

An animal welfare group tipped off the police after buying some meat at the farm near Edmonton, Alberta.

It said some cows "were overfed to the point of no longer being able to walk".

New homes

The For Animals group's undercover inspector, Renata Mizera, said the farmer had stressed the health benefits of the meat and told her that she herself added a piece to her daughter's evening meal, Agence France-Presse reported.

"A T-Bone steak was being sold for 37 euros ($53, £31)," said Ms Mizera.

The police are checking whether the meat - which was found in ziploc bags in a freezer at the woman's farm - comes from cattle.

The 37-year-old farmer could face up to two years in jail for animal cruelty and distributing an unsafe substance, Alberta's TVN24 reported.

The cows are being cared for by the For Animals group, which is looking for new homes for them.
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m

[PublicAnimalNo9]

wtf??

in Alberta. Yer serious, in freakin Alberta?? Is there an Alberta somewhere else or something??
Too bad these fucktards couldn't put that much effort into worrying about Human rights and abused children instead.

[Choban]

Mukluk Mukluk:

I love how we somehow culturally decide which animals are ok to slaughter for our use, and which ones are not. I also love the picture of the cute puppy in the article to give an extra tug on the heart strings.

I cringe at the thought of slaughtering dogs for lard, but isn't that just my cultural bias? Check this out:

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Alberta police are questioning a woman suspected of fattening up cattle and slaughtering them to sell the meat as food, reports say.

The police said 28 well-fed cows, including mature cattle and yearlings, were found in fences on a farm, along with frozen meat, AFP news agency said.

An animal welfare group tipped off the police after buying some meat at the farm near Edmonton, Alberta.

It said some cows "were overfed to the point of no longer being able to walk".

New homes

The For Animals group's undercover inspector, Renata Mizera, said the farmer had stressed the health benefits of the meat and told her that she herself added a piece to her daughter's evening meal, Agence France-Presse reported.

"A T-Bone steak was being sold for 37 euros ($53, £31)," said Ms Mizera.

The police are checking whether the meat - which was found in ziploc bags in a freezer at the woman's farm - comes from cattle.

The 37-year-old farmer could face up to two years in jail for animal cruelty and distributing an unsafe substance, Alberta's TVN24 reported.

The cows are being cared for by the For Animals group, which is looking for new homes for them.
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m

Good point, I never think of it that way.
Never heard of a beef cow being fattend up until it couldn't walk though.
Of course if this thing with the dogs had happened in China no one would bat an eye.

[ShepherdsDog]

$1:

It said some cows "were overfed to the point of no longer being able to walk".

I've seen some cattle that were intentionally made fat because they were hung and aged for 21+ days. This way the spoilage that you cut off is mostly fat and the muscle tissue is super tender. This is a personal preference for some who butcher their own meat and prefer plenty of marbling in the meat. Wagu cattle, the ones that produce Kobe Beef, are one of the breeds that has been bred for retention of fat, especially the intramuscular fat that makes meat tender and tasty.