"We were seeing cows drop 12 to 25 percent in weight," says Paul Mossby, manager of the Beef Center, "despite
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No matter what the staff tried, the cows continued to melt away the delicious marbled pounds that were unnaturally added to their more than ample, genetically modified frames.
Mossby and the rest of the staff, as well as some top beef industry executives, began to worry about disease and the effect that a mad cow type outbreak would have in this country. Strangely, however, the cows seemed happier and healthier than ever. That's when Mossby decided to place video cameras all around the perimiter of the 300-acre pasture at the Beef Center.
What they found when viewing the tapes was shocking.
Animal rights activist were training the cows to convert to a strict Atkins diet by throwing tender sirloins in pastures in the middle of the night. Cows, which have spent the last 20 million years almost exclusively as vegetarians, were surprisingly attracted to their new red meat diet.
"We believe that Americans are eating too much red meat," says PETA member Don Rider. "If cows become skinny, humans will have to look to alternative sources of meat, like pigs, and at PETA we don't protect pigs." Rider acknowledges that pigs are animals like all of us and probably worth saving but, "We just don't dig on swine, that's all."
The Atkins Diet consists of a high protein and fat diet with low carbohydrates. Dieters using this system have experienced dramatic weight loss in short amounts of time. Cows on this diet are also experiencing dramatic decreases in saleable weight.
"The cows we're saving are dropping up to 10 lbs per week," says Rider. "The farmers are unable to sell their cows to slaughterhouses and have no idea what's going on. As always, we at PETA are smarter than the rest of the country."
When asked where PETA is getting the red meat to feed the cows, Rider had no comment.
