Always interested in the source of the foods we eat, I came across this news story at FoxNews.com about cruelty to downed cows. It’s enough to turn your stomach, how these animals are treated. It’s also enough to turn your stomach, wondering if the beef you just bought could be contaminated because it came from a sick or downer cow.

The slaughterhouse in question was a supplier to schools for lunches for your children. They don’t say that any contaminated or dangerous meat has been passed along, but I have to personally wonder how it could not have been.

I have no qualms about using animals for food. However, I am disgusted when the animals are treated inhumanely before they are slaughtered and I’m disgusted when the suppliers knowingly kill sick and downed animals along with healthy ones.

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