For reason number 173 to eat only Meat Of Known Origin, take a look at this article from yesterday's New York Times..
Summary:
Contamination, particularly with E. coli O157:H7 and salmonella, has been a persistent problem with mainstream ground beef. Eight years ago, someone started a company called Beef Products, Inc., based on the idea of treating questionable bits of meat with ammonia to kill the pathogens. Changing and inconsistently-observed treatment standards within the company, combined with ineffective oversight by federal agencies, has resulted in meat reaching the public whose safety and palatability is (ahem) questionable, either because it is tainted with pathogens or because it smells like ammonia. Or both. State prison officials in Georgia rejected some of the meat, deeming it unfit for consumption by their inmates, even while the same meat was being served in national fast food chains and school lunch, whose standards are apparently lower..
Edited to add:
this one http://www.grist.org/article/
then that one http://www.grist.org/article/
3 comments:
I do not know if it was this particular plant that was shown in Food Inc but it was a facility that performs this exact same process. It was truly appalling to see. My husband and I have lived a long life of mainstream thinking and ignorance and are making many changes in our life to shake ourselves of our societal brainwashing. I have been reading much of your blog from the beginning posts the last few days. We currently live in Los Alamos and I am very excited that you have settled down in our beautiful area. I lived in Taos for a while and absolutely fell in love with it. Your journey has touched my soul in many ways, I look forward to reading so much more and hopefully will be blessed with meeting you one day.
blll. bleach. That dollar menu looks more appalling all the time.
My wife and I both enjoy meat but have largely stopped eating it because of information like this. We almost never eat meat at home (other than fish) and rarely at restaurants. Never at fast food restaurants. I think it's a shame that the average American no longer knows the source of their food. The large food production companies certainly prefer it that way; how many people would continue to eat cheap burgers if they knew that the meat in their burger was from 1000 different cows in 35 states and had been injected with ammonia? Gross! It's so unappetizing.
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