Prisons Raise And Serve Grass-Fed Beef

Hartke Is Online!:

Inmates at White Post are enlisted in animal husbandry at Sky Meadow to raise cattle for beef production. The program is a collaboration of several entities: USDA Farm Services (which implements a Conservation Plan), local Soil and Water Conservation Services (implementing a Nutrient Management Plan), and Virginia Tech (which performs studies on the health and nutrient content of the soil).

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Comments

[TigersEye]

So in other words the prisoners eat healthier meat than the majority of the rest of the population. Lovely.

[KarateKid]

Only in America.

[ImissBush]

pot cows?

[MagicalPossibilities]

While I don't begrudge prisoners the right to safe and decent food, I'd prefer to see the the grass fed beef given to schoolchil­dren...

[ResidualSelfImage]

Are Children Next Targets for Toxic Meals?

Washington, DC July 13, 2009: Citing serious health conditions due to high levels of soy, inmates in the Illinois prison system are suing for a permanent injunction against the substitution of soy for meat in prison meals.

The soy-based prison diet began when Rod Blagojevich was elected governor of Illinois in 2002. Beginning in January 2003, inmates began receiving a diet largely based on processed soy protein with very little meat. In most meals, small amounts of meat or meat percent soy protein; fake soy cheese has replaced real cheese; and soy flour or soy protein is now added to most prison baked goods.

Soy is touted as a way to save money and to provide a diet lower in calories and saturated fat. However, soybeans contain plant estrogens

According to Sally Fallon Morell, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, the organization began receiving letters from Illinois inmates in early 2008. The prisoners described deliberate indifference to a myriad of serious health problems caused by the large amounts of soy in the diet. Complaints include chronic and painful constipation alternating with debilitating diarrhea, vomiting after eating, sharp pains in the digestive tract after consuming soy, passing out, heart palpitations, rashes, acne, insomnia, panic attacks, depression and symptoms of hypothyroidism, such as low body temperature (feeling cold all the time), brain fog, fatigue, weight gain, frequent infections and enlarged thyroid gland.
http://westonaprice.org/press/press-13jul09.html

[Pema]

soy is used as a flabvoring ,..wanna have a shock? look at your can of tuna. it has soy in it. its really unhealthy to have that much, the asians eat it but not to the degree americans do as its small but ever present use in food here.

[KarateKid]

Your last paragraph, that's what criminals deserve.

[Gregorius Mercator]

That's great. I hope this program is expanded.

[thundermummy]

Wow, they can shiv a shank.