Good news: Huge victories achieved against Big Pharma, animal cruelty
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) More and more, our collective activism is reshaping the world economy to punish criminal corporations and demand transparency on topics like GMOs, drug patents, animal cruelty and more. And we are winning on every front!
This past week saw a flurry of news where big corporations like Merck and Monsanto were handed groundbreaking defeats thanks to consumer activism.
Here are the highlights:
Tyson Foods to halt purchase of cows raised with Zilmax
Tyson Foods, the country's largest purchaser of beef, announced it would stop buying beef from cows raised on Zilmax, the "animal cruelty" drug that makes cows so heavy they can't walk on their own, forcing slaughterhouse workers to drag the cows to their own deaths.
Zilmax has been highly criticized by animal welfare activists, and massive boycotts were already being planned that could have cost Tyson tens of millions of dollars in profits. Tyson smartly pre-empted the planned boycotts by abandoning Zilmax.
See this Merck propaganda video from 2011 where Merck's marketing manager for Zilmax, a sinister drug dealer named Mitch Johnson, touts the "extra profit" ranchers can make by pumping their cows full of cruel drugs:
http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/Beef-booster-Zilmax-13301315...
(Mitch Johnson, may your soul be eternally stampeded in Hell for all the cows you have condemned to cruel deaths...)
Only in America are animals fed one drug to make them fatter while humans who eat the animals are fed a weight loss drug made by the same company.
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/16/us-merck-zilmax-idUSBRE97F0...
Merck halts sales of cruel "cattle-fattening" Zilmax drug
The decision by Tyson Foods to ditch Zilmax sent such huge shockwaves across the industry that Merck was forced to announce a few days later that it was halting all sales of Zilmax.
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/16/us-merck-zilmax-idUSBRE97F0...
The FDA, meanwhile, launched an investigation into Zilmax to "determine whether it is safe." Don't expect any fireworks from the FDA, however: the agency practically functions as the marketing branch of Merck rather than a regulator of the company.
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/16/us-merck-zilmax-fda-idUSBRE...
http://www.naturalnews.com/z041671_GMO_wars_Zilmax_activism.html