That's one thing I love about living in Canada... comparitivly cheep, safe meat! ;-)

john in hull... Just by way of clearing up... The Otawa-Hull mentioned above isn't in the usa... it's in Canada...

On the cruelty thing... Ya... some slaughter houses and farms still are little animal auschwitz's, but things are changing no? Granted, there's only so much you can do with the death process... how clean does PETA expect it to be?? I just don't understand...

I also don't really understand the idea that it's wrong to kill animals for meat when the whole food chain works like that... Isn't all eating murder? It's not o.k. to eat cows, but it's o.k. to eat carrots? Are the carrots any less alive? To say, "It's just a plant" is arrogant and bigoted! All life is LIFE! Never mind thanking some invisible man in the sky for your food... when you sit down at the dinner table tonight, thank your FOOD for dying so that you can survive... That seems more like giving credit where credit is due...

One another slight aside... Do you know what would happen to all the cows on the planet if people stopped raising them for food and leather? They would die out all together... The species is almost totally incapable of supporting itself after so many ages and ages of being hand reared by humans...

Ain't we just grand?