It's back!

Here is another good read on where our food comes from. The main ingredient of gummy bears is gelatin.

down home wrote:
If you have to use ammonia to kill the bacteria in it I won't buy it.

Then you'd better give up cheese, bake goods, and other food products since they also contain ammonium hydroxide. I wonder where the bacteria in the mechanically separated beef came from; perhaps the same place where those nice steaks and roasts come from.

If pink slime grosses you out, don't look into the manufacturing of sausage and other cased meats and don't look too closely at the casing.

How times have changed, huh? My mother-in-law, a farm woman, had a story about DH when he was a tiny tot. It seems she had mentioned something one day about cooking chicken for dinner. The next thing she knew, there was two year old Bud standing at the back door, holding a dead hen by its neck. He proudly announced, "I knowed I could do it!" Those kids had no illusions about where food came from. :B

I'm sure his mom appreciated the effort but there followed an explanation about the difference between fryers and laying hens. :E

Buyer beware is in play as never before. Much of the time we can't discover what is in our food. If you have to use ammonia to kill the bacteria in it I won't buy it. I like beef but not rotten scraps steralized or not made into a paste. Industry is determined to force us to buy what it wants to sell despite our objections. They just won't tell us what is in it. I've broken a tooth on a piece, of bone in meat several years ago and nearly did it a number of times the last several years. Meat is processed in factories and sent to the meat department, even if they have Butchers. I discovered at a Sams Club, last year I think, they wouldn't grind a piece of chuck I purchased from them into hamburger because of regulations on tracking meat. It is all hogwash. I found one market that would do it but it turned out it was already coarse ground when they got it and they regrind it into what most recognize as hamburger.
We have a Butcher near here but at 6.00 per pound of hamburger, we can't afford it often. It's a shame the Dept of Ag is not protecting our Interests or health.

BCSnob wrote:
Americans these days are way too squeamish about how their packaged meat gets from their idyllic mental picture of the cow grazing in the field to that nice package of beef. They need to try processing their cow on their own and seeing all that wasted beef going into the trash because people turn their noses up on certain cuts their ancestors ate all the time.

All those resources (economic, environmental, etc) were spent raising that cow to just trash a lot of it because the bits don't look like a steak.

Yup - the "Smoke and Mirrors" of that nice-looking roast wrapped in plastic in the meat counter! It was really brought home to me one day, as I was preparing a whole chicken to put on the grill: my grandson was around 4 yrs old, looked at it and said "Grandma - that looks like a bird?!" I said "it IS a bird - what did you think a chicken was?" He replied "packages of meat".....LOL!

If the BASHING MEDIA had of used the term "Finely Ground Beef" (which is what it really is) instead of the term Pink Slime, there would have been NO ISSUE with the whole thing from the start.

Americans these days are way too squeamish about how their packaged meat gets from their idyllic mental picture of the cow grazing in the field to that nice package of beef. They need to try processing their cow on their own and seeing all that wasted beef going into the trash because people turn their noses up on certain cuts their ancestors ate all the time.

All those resources (economic, environmental, etc) were spent raising that cow to just trash a lot of it because the bits don't look like a steak.

A little research aside from the media's trash stories can go a long way to curing ignorance.

Well, Hubby is on his way back with my burger from McDonald's, so even though I try to eat "sliced" (as opposed to "ground") meats at home - I'm far from immune from the stuff. I guess as long as it's safe and cooked properly, and has enough ketchup and mustard on it.... I'll probably not worry about it. I used to love stuff sold as "potted meat" - mixed with mayo and spread on a sandwich. I don't even want to know what's in THAT....