It Takes Two

Done. Next!

Send us some of that leftover schwag, and not the dusty crap y’all were selling over at the Cafe shop. We want that prime shit: three pink gestation crate iPhone covers, a veal crate playground set, and some battery cage keychains.

California is 40% Worse Than Iowa

Highest combined concentration of burger, bacon rack, and milk jug production units in the country. Yeah, the whole country. We beat friggin’ Iowa for shit’s sake. 120 pounds of waste crap and pee per cow every day, flushed out of the “barns,” into multi-million-gallon surge ponds lagoons of crap and pee, then sprayed on the ground surrounding them. And that’s just the milk-makers. Go play around with the Food and Water Watch Map. Diaper yourself beforehand.

On the drought side of the equation, 1,780,000 CA cows used for dairy are slurping up 4 gallons of water a day to squeeze out just one gallon of milk so you can suck it down your throat like you’re still an infant nursing from someone else’s mother.

Four gallons of water to get 1 gallon of cow milk.
Times 7.5 gallons of milk a day of “high production efficiency.”
Times 365 days a year.
Times 1,780,000 cows used for dairy.

Your ten-minute showers are already down to seven, you can’t afford to flush the toilet, and your house is burning to the ground beside the lake that’s gone dry. Don’t worry, it’s not too late to put off thinking about it.

All Your B(A)SE Are Belong to Cows

New twist in tale of BSE’s beginnings

Sheep didn’t do it.

Cows eating cows did it … or maybe sheep eating cows. Their brains got sick. Then your brains got sick. Cows and sheep don’t really eat each other – at least not that they’re aware of. And thousands of mice got sick to remind you that feeding cows to sheep or sheep to cows, and either one or both to yourself, is still a bad idea.

Woo-hoo, it’s new!

And coming this spring to a feedlot near you! We love to drone on about antibiotic (over)use in animal agribusiness, bacterial resistance, and the emerging threat to global public health.

Instead of doing it again, we’ll just give you some quick take-aways from today’s Washington Post article:

InterVet developed cefquinome to treat bovine respiratory disease, the most common disease in cattle. Recognizing the potential public health implications of using a close cousin of cefepime in animals, the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine, which oversees animal drug approvals, convened its expert advisers in September.

And what did they discover about BRD and current treatments? Available and effective. But…

The panel also learned that the disease would be a relatively minor issue but for the stressful conditions under which U.S. cattle are raised, including high-density living spaces and routine shipment on crowded trains for hundreds or thousands of miles. Those “production dynamics” suppress the animals’ immune systems, explained feedlot consultant Kelly Lechtenberg of Oakland, Neb., and virtually guarantee that bovine respiratory disease will be a major problem.

Why aren’t a dozen effective antibiotic therapies for BRD enough? According to the VP of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs for the Animal Health Institute, it doesn’t matter how many there are.

Why are cows always and inevitably sick?

More to the point: why does the FDA have to wait for a person to be sickened by a resistant microbe in order to tell animal agribusiness to stop shoveling, dripping, and injecting antibiotics into their products?

Free Chow at Johnny Rockets

They’re at it again, people—just giving away the veg vittles nationwide. Stop by VegCooking.com and print out your coupon for a free Johnny Rockets Streamliner® love-a-cow burger. Everybody knows at least one somebody who says they love cows. You could feed a random omni and make a friend for literally $0 down. Johnny Rockets goes the extra mile for you on the ingredients for their menu items, and they say their burgers “can be made more than 1 million different ways.” For the next 30 days, our way is free. Go eat!