*The steer steps into the soup. It is a dip vat, filled with poison to kill ticks. He slips, the panic sets in – He breathes in the chemical bath instead of air.
He dies there in the chute, but you cannot eat him.
The law is clear.
(Dead otherwise than by slaughter) – the USDA says this.
The heart stopped-so the blood sits in the veins. It spoils the meat. The lungs are full of pesticide – pumps through the system before the end.
The carcass is condemned – It is no steak, just waste.
They will denature it with crude (carbolic acid) – This way no one tries to salvage a dime.
It goes to the renderer – the butcher never sees it.
The flesh is tainted.
Deep down to the bone – a total loss.