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"Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building."-- Jim Hightower
December's Lowdown
Corporate elites and their small-minded political servants are creating the Incredibly Shrinking America
"We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." What a paragraph! This sparse, 52-word opening of our Constitution did not merely launch a fledgling nation--but a bold experiment in democratic idealism.
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Dressed up in their designer suits, they trade in human cargo
The new racketeers
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- Zapping the beef supply
- Granny d marches on!
- Postmodern piracy
- Suffer the little children
- Hogs at the trough
- Charity begins in the house
- Bill's beer
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Zapping the beef supply
What do you like on your burgers? How about radioactive Cobalt-60?
Sara Lee, Cargill, IBP Inc. and other huge corporations that control the beef processing industry have long been lobbying Wash-ington to let them "irradiate" America's red meat supply. Now the spineless Agriculture Department is caving-in, proposing a new rule authorizing the widespread use of radiation.
Beef processing is so dirty that thousands of us consumers die from E. coli and other bacteria every year. Rather than cleaning up their operations and preventing contamination in the first place, the industry simply wants to zap its contaminated meat.
No long-term human tests have been done on the safety of this—you're the guinea pig. Prices will rise too—the irradiation equipment costs $10 million per factory. And your burgers will smell and taste . . . well, irradiated.
To fight this, call Food & Water at 802-563-3300.