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01-04-2010, 08:15 PM | #1 | |
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What they have been putting in our meat! Hint you might clean a floor with it!
I gave up hamburgers last month for health reasons, now I wish I had done it much sooner. I wish I could puke up every bite of this crap I ever ate (into the face of who-ever approved and profited from this.)
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01-04-2010, 08:22 PM | #2 |
Jack Burton
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Re: What they have been putting in our meat! Hint you might clean a floor with it!
Good link. I too gave up fast food last year, and gave up anything from Mcdonalds 3 years ago. If I eat a Mcdonalds burger now, I feel sick - no joke. There's a reason they can sell you a burger for $1 and it's got nothing to do with being generous!
When I do eat out, I mainly go to restaurants that cook the food from scratch but even then I avoid "burgers & fries" type meals and go for something a bit healthier.
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01-04-2010, 09:07 PM | #3 |
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Re: What they have been putting in our meat! Hint you might clean a floor with it!
Another benefit of watching your beef grow and taking it to the slaughter house where you have a personal relationship with the family owned business. Eating out is for folks who don't know how to cook, who travel, or are just plain fat and lazy.
Looks like big business strikes again.
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01-05-2010, 12:17 AM | #4 |
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Re: What they have been putting in our meat! Hint you might clean a floor with it!
This was featured in Food, Inc. which I highly recommend.
The company that currently leads the market for this process says it is currently in 80% of the hamburger and hopefully 100% in a few years. It's a ridiculous system really. It begins by subsidizing corn to the point that it's cheaper than grass. Then you put the animals on the 100's of acre CAFO operation. Well then you have to shovel in the corn and shovel out the shit. Plus corn in the cow's diet drives up the E. coli count, especially for the deadliest E. coli strains. When all these problems culminate in polluted water and poisened 7 yr olds dying to hamburgers, rather than question the whole stupid system from start to finish, these scientific dunderheads instead come up with a technology based solution -- Inject all the meat with Ammonia, and then give it a good HCl bath!! Mmmm, tasty. If your beef is not grass fed and organic, don't trust it from a health standpoint. If you want to go true gold star, then try to find free range foraging beef. Anyway, for footage of these processing plants, go... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyZecQoAFmo and look at 2:30 and forward. They don't really ask Eldon Roth, head of BPI, any questions. They just let him talk and then put in some eerie music. And, for the counterargument, go to this point in the film http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R4r8...eature=related at 2:43. The guy from Polyface Farms is really funny. He simply doesn't understand all the hullabaloo about the CAFO trend when his whole operation, food to cow to beef and manure and fertilizer, all happens in his fields. Last edited by Timber Loftis; 01-05-2010 at 12:25 AM. |
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Venison is also a good route too IMO (and tastier than beef). |
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Did you guys ever think that maybe it sells because, you know, some of us like the taste? |
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But yes of course you LOVE how it tastes. Human beings are hard-wired to vastly prefer 3 tastes to any other: salt, sugar, fat. Those 3 tastes were genetically selected for because they are very rare in nature, and something we biologically need. But in the past 60 years, salty, fatty, sugary foods have become to be 95% of what we eat. Our technology has overcome the biological hurdle of struggling to ingest enough calories. But now the opposite is occurring -- too many calories that all just taste so yummy. Just be hopeful that when you get to the point in life when you can no longer be so active and young, that you don't still crave those salty, fatty, and sugary foods. Because if you keep up that diet without the benefits of youth and exercise you could well find yourself enjoying Type II Diabetes and other fun gifts that this warped food culture bring us. |
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Re: What they have been putting in our meat! Hint you might clean a floor with it!
Dont mean to derail, very interesting conversation, I just wanted to say hi to Timber. How ya doin?
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Doing well, love the sig.
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