Las Vegas Stratosphere may be seen for miles. Eat meat in Las Vegas?

This tower may be seen for miles around Las Vegas.
Certainly not the dream king of L.E. Fant.

L.E. Fant is on a mission today and will provide an account of his mission shortly. It is regarding fuel saving.

EAT MEAT?

The Daily Green reports that yesterday the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service issued a public health alert for 808 pounds of ground beef products produced at Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc., of Lexington, NE.

In addition to this alert, Cecina Los Amigos, a Carson, CA, firm, is voluntarily recalling approximately 290 pounds of pork blood sausages that may be contaminated with Listeria, according to the USDA.

A few months ago the nation witnessed the largest beef recall in its history that was the result of the Humane Society's secret videotapes of workers at a California meat plant prodding and fork-lifting downer cattle — cattle that are too weak or sick to stand — into the slaughterhouse.
Agriculture secretary Ed Schafer said that his department wants to ban all downer cattle from the slaughterhouse to boost public confidence in the safety of the nation's food supply, according to an article in the Washington Post. However, he will find it extremely difficult, if not impossible to boost L.E. Fant's confidence regarding the safety of our food supply.

Rules state that while downer cattle must be kept out of the food supply, an exception exists that allows a government veterinarian to approve for slaughter an animal that passed an initial inspection, but then goes down before reaching the "knock box," according to the article, so long as a second inspection finds that animal to have an acute injury rather than an illness.

The USDA magnanimously plans to eliminate this exception (why has it taken so long? Perhaps public awareness?).

Senator Herb Kohl of the Senate Appropriations agriculture subcommittee was quoted in the article: "A strictly enforceable downer ban will eliminate confusion and move the ball forward on food safety and humane standards, while restoring consumer faith in a vital American sector." L.E. believes that senator to be, at best, an optimist and at worst a shill for the meat industry which is controlled by a scant few mega corporations whose agenda is likely placing profitability before our safety (remember Fast Food Nation?).