[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')his is truly astounding, worse than I could've imagined.

You're not going to believe what you've been eating the last few years (thanks, Bush! thanks meat industry lobbyists!) when you eat a McDonald's burger (or the hamburger patties in kids' school lunches) or buy conventional ground meat at your supermarket:

According to today's New York Times, The "majority of hamburger" now sold in the U.S. now contains fatty slaughterhouse trimmings "the industry once relegated to pet food and cooking oil," "typically including most of the material from the outer surfaces of the carcass" that contains "larger microbiological populations."

This "nasty pink slime," as one FDA microbiologist called it, is now wrung in a centrifuge to remove the fat, and then treated with AMMONIA to "retard spoilage," and turned into "a mashlike substance frozen into blocks or chips".

Thus saving THREE CENTS a pound off production costs. And making the company, Beef Products Inc., a fortune. $440 million/year in revenue. Ain't that something?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/1/1/821105/-Yummy!-Ammonia-treated-pink-slime-now-in-most-U.S.-ground-beef

[DomusAlbion]

Disgusting!

I'm so glad that for the last 5 years we've been eating grass fed beef grown on the farm next to ours. No hormones, no chemicals, just good clean low fat beef.

[Roy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')'m so glad that for the last 5 years we've been eating grass fed beef grown on the farm next to ours. No hormones, no chemicals, just good clean low fat beef.

[frankthetank]

Does it even matter...its all corn when it comes down to it...GMO stuff yum!

[jbrovont]

That lovely article pretty much made me want to puke.

[VZR1800]

Cook it on the grill, make sure it gets nice and hot, well done not rare. It'll all boil off and you'll be good to go.

[the48thronin]

buy rump steak ( usually the same cost as ground beef where I shop.. then take it to the butcher in the bnack of the store and watch while you have it ground with no additives... lean but helthy ground beef.. My grocer grinds it for free

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('the48thronin', 'b')uy rump steak ( usually the same cost as ground beef where I shop.. then take it to the butcher in the bnack of the store and watch while you have it ground with no additives... lean but helthy ground beef.. My grocer grinds it for free

[eastbay]

Sheesh. For some of us this isn't a concern at all. Well, except for paying a bit more in taxes and medical costs to repair those who fall ill from eating this stuff.

But if I may expand a bit into mass behavior, it's like so much bizarre human thought in western society. It's realy no surprise probably 98% of the population eats this sort of stuff. Even after reading about it they'll continue to crave this eating stuff.

I mean, please consider in a country like the USA where 98% vote for more war electing people who allow this is totally no surprise.

[timmac]

Yum Cheeseburger..

A Cheeseburger Song..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLjphhzDDrY

[RedStateGreen]

The really horrible thing about this is that this stuff is being sent to elementary schools, where people think their children are being served good food for lunch. Some of these kids get nothing else to eat during the day but what they get at school. It's sickening that people would feed garbage to children to save a few pennies a pound.

[Jotapay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Roy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')'m so glad that for the last 5 years we've been eating grass fed beef grown on the farm next to ours. No hormones, no chemicals, just good clean low fat beef.

[the48thronin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Roy', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')'m so glad that for the last 5 years we've been eating grass fed beef grown on the farm next to ours. No hormones, no chemicals, just good clean low fat beef.

[Jotapay]

Thanks, the48thronin.

[Jotapay]

I"m definitely going to check out my local processing places. I know there are some folks that raise and sell organic buffalo around here, but I'll have to find out who they are.

I usually go to Costco to get my meat. They use their own cattle lots, evidently. I know nothing about the way they are raised and how unhealthy it is. But the cuts of meat are huge (butterfly pork chops, ribeyes, T-bones, sirloins) and really good quality. I never eat ground beef anywhere unless they say it's organic.

Does anyone know anything untoward about the Costco butcher's meat? The cuts are far superior than what you get in the grocery store here (HEB, etc.) and much cheaper. All cuts are really thick. Sirloin is $5/#, Ribeye is $7/#, Pork Loin is $2.30-2.50/#. The meat is really good quality, but I wonder if anyone else knows more

[Kristen]

This kind of thing has been going on for years, at least in fast food. They have scientists called flavorists that literally make a bunch of chemicals taste like real food. They test everything from how much you salivate to texture and smell. Of course they have no oversight due to trade secrets and competition. No one can say for sure what is in these secret recipes. Just remember that if you add vinegar and water with ammonia you get windex!

[MarkJ]

We don't eat hamburger, but when we buy it for guests, we go to a local meat store that grinds it fresh.

This also helps keep the store in business since sales have decreased substantially after the WalMart SuperCenter opened in their back yard.

[highlander]

Well, while you are all gagging over your meat, just remember the source of the worst ecoli outbreaks over the last few years was.....produce. The farm workers are out doing their thing in the fields and you don't cook the lettuce/tomatoes. Just think about all the little varmits crawling all over your hamburger fixin's next time you start to worry about ammonia treated pink slime.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('highlander', 'W')ell, while you are all gagging over your meat, just remember the source of the worst ecoli outbreaks over the last few years was.....produce. The farm workers are out doing their thing in the fields and you don't cook the lettuce/tomatoes. Just think about all the little varmits crawling all over your hamburger fixin's next time you start to worry about ammonia treated pink slime.