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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>“Meat glue” IMO, is not the problem. It is a symptom of the problem. If you left out the powered additives, this would be a fairly natural process. A thoroughly kneaded hamburger patty sticks together because kneading activates the coagulates. But the industry has taken this natural process and turned it into something disgusting. This happens over and over again. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Just fifteen years ago there was a butcher in every grocery store deciding what to do for his customers. Local grocers and butchers -- respectable folk in town -- provided labor and skill. Now Walmart makes the decisions, and labor is provided by recent immigrants… economic refugees from foreign countries with deplorable living conditions. Thousands of workers and family members move to small U.S. towns to work in huge facilities that kill as many as 16,000 hogs and 6,000 cattle PER DAY. The underpaid workers and their families burden schools, emergency rooms and other public services. The dictatorial leaders in the workers home countries, instead of building economies so their people could live in decent conditions and eat beef, sell the cattle cheap in the US. The cattle are likely bought by Tyson or JBS, a Brazilian Company -- the biggest cattle feeder in the US. The cattle are likely slaughtered in a few plants owned by Tyson or JBS – again using more economic refugee labor that have moved to small towns where the packing plants are. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>So after I microwave my meat-glued-frozen-chicken-fried-Mexico-born-Brazilian-fed-beef-processed-by-refugees-burdening-small-U.S.-towns I say “Come Lord Jesus, be our guest,” and I wonder if He’d say “pass the ketchup” or if He’d leave the table. I say “bless this food and the hands that prepared it” and I wonder if He would upset the table and call me “hypocrite!”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:6.5pt;font-family:"Engravers MT","serif";color:#1F497D;letter-spacing:.9pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:6.5pt;font-family:"Engravers MT","serif";color:#1F497D;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.9pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> okc-bounces@sustainableokc.org [mailto:okc-bounces@sustainableokc.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tina & Christopher Hilbert<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, April 17, 2011 12:24 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Sustainable okc'<br><b>Subject:</b> [OKC] The Meat Industry and Meat Glue<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=yiv1092666344msonormal><em><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#3333FF'>This is scary stuff. Please share the link below on list serve. Thank you, Tina Hilbert NA OKC<o:p></o:p></span></u></em></p><p class=yiv1092666344msonormal><em><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#3333FF'><o:p><span style='text-decoration:none'> </span></o:p></span></u></em></p><p class=yiv1092666344msonormal><em><u><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#3333FF'>http://d.yimg.com/nl/australia/site/player.swf?vid=24472661&repeat=0&browseCarouselUI=hide"",,-1,0,,,,</span></u></em><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=513 height=219 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CBFDAC.8F67AE10"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Click the cover image below to <br>enjoy our new April Ezine.</span></i><a name=LETTER.BLOCK12></a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1rnht/NaturalAwakeningsOKC/resources/index.htm?referrerUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yudu.com%2Fitem%2Fdetails%2F311496%2FNatural-Awakenings-OKC"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=126 height=161 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CBFDAC.8F67AE10"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>