I will certainly be limiting my consumption of any ground meat in the future now that I no longer believe it to be beneficial. Is it true that when the USDA or FDA analyzes whether or not something is safe they use information provided by the corporations that make the "food"?
Doesn't that leave room for at least the appearance of bias? Also we as consumers cannot make decisions without information. Labeling is important.
Not requiring "pink slime" to be labeled was clearly a concession to the meat industry. No reasonable person would think that people would not want that information. SRM include the skull, the brain, trigeminal ganglia and eyes, the tonsils, and the spinal cord and the vertebral column including the dorsal root ganglia, spinal vertebrae, all of the spinal cord tissue and the small intestine. Power tools, including chain saws, are used to cut up the carcasses..
It is unavoidable that potentially prion infected wastes from high risk tissues end up on the blood-soaked slaughterhouse floors — to be incorporated into the pink slime. Here is a good website for facts about LFTB. Hagen, Amonia in our food and in food that is very popular with our kids. I am very disappointed with the FDA. Special interest groups are controling this country at the betrayl of the general public. Stop pink slime now make sure pink slime in add to the ingredients.
If "pink slime" is innocuous, why are you refusing to answer any questions from the media about the issue? According to ABC News, they have been trying to get you to answer questions about the issue for three weeks; you have declined, claiming a "tight schedule. Seems like a complete lack of accountability on the part of the agriculture industry and the government agencies which are covering for them. I'm really glad to see you split the discussion over food safety from the one over food sources.
A vital starting point for reasoned discourse is clarifying points of divergence. Why I'm O. I work for said agency, and to all of you who complain about your food, 3 words! Don't eat it!!
LFTB is beef that has been through a "centrifuge" type machine to pull off all the tissue meat that was unable to be removed by the establishment's employees by the use of knives. I ask you, have any of you that are so upset about this "pink slime" ever worked in a processing plant, do you have any idea of all the interventions a company takes to ensure that their product is wholesome and safe? Yes, that's right, we work for you!
We work for every man, woman and child here in the US to ensure that what you so callously put in your mouth, and then complain about is safe. You want all natural, go out in the field and kill a cow and eat it! There's no interventions for food safety there! You wouldn't do that, would you? As for the labeling, there are specific requirements for labeling that all establishments must follow. Lastly, if you don't like something, don't buy it!
If you are offended by something, don't listen to it. I am a mother of four and find that most people are ignorant of what the USDA's role is in our society's food supply.
Don't take some people's uneducated ramblings personally. The problem is that rumors tend to be spread and believed faster than actual scientific truths. It's a shame that society has succumb to what is provided via various non scientific websites rather than the website that IS avaialable for ALL public consumers; www.
Keep up the good work! If you believe in consumer choice, then why didn't you require them to list it as an ingredient on the package? Free-markets means the government not giving companies a free-pass on purposely misleading labels.
I personaly don't want ammonia in my food either, however E. It's amazing to me how many people believe whatever the T. We've been eating LFTB for years, it's safe, reliable, and effective in preventing, or eliminating pathogenes also it's used in a gas state NOT liquid in a washing machine!
Now if we could just use ammonia hydroxide on MSNBC and other panic reporting new stations maybe Americans would be safe from brainwashing propaganda. By te way there is 10 times the amount of ammonia hydroxide used in the processing of TOFU! Enjoy Veggie Heads. All equipment used to cut through SRM's have built in water sterilizers that clean the equipment as used. SRM's in under thirty month cows are only the lingual and palatine tonsils of the head. Over thirty months are all that you wrote.
They are unavoidable prions, they are inspected to make sure no SRM's make it into commerce. And by the way downers have not been slaughtered and given to consumers, i like how no proof is given for these statements, just your word! Work at a slaughter house before you write such propoganda. If you are ignorant to think that ammonium hydroxide is only in beef, take into consideration that it is widely used in baking products, vegetables, and most of our other food sources!
In fact, every part of a bacon cheeseburger has ammonium hydroxide in it - and the beef and bacon have the lowest amounts! Ammonium hydroxide is only one part of the robust food safety system.
Ammonium hydroxide is found naturally in all proteins we eat — plant or animal — and one of its roles is to prohibit bacteria from forming Ammonium hydroxide is widely used in everyday cooking from baking powder to cheese to chocolate. To provide perspective, ammonium hydroxide-based compounds can be found in every component of a bacon cheeseburger bun, bacon, cheese, condiments, and beef between the naturally occurring levels and small amounts used to make food safer.
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Quote: "I feel extremely confident that this product is lean, healthy, nutritious and safe Quote: "It's a shame that society has succumb to what is provided via various non scientific websites rather than Quote: "Now if we could just use ammonia hydroxide on MSNBC and other panic reporting new stations maybe Americans would be safe from brainwashing propaganda.
Recent News Quote: "The labels Department of Agriculture. The deceptive naming continues, I mean, that's right, you have to use a deceptive name, otherwise the entire by-product process would not be accepted by the general public. Wow, it's "textured" it's "fine" - not a word about the process or the fact that it's a by-product.
No words like "treated" or "ammonia" or "by-product" or "filler" in the name, gee, thanks for the "honesty" P. Listing LFTB on meat labels should be mandatory.
As a consumer, I have the right to know what is in a product and make an informed decision about eating it. I don't care that the USDA thinks it is a safe product. Unfortunately, the pathogens in ground beef come from the processing and artificial diet of today's beef cattle.
Cows were meant to eat grass and not the grains they are given. Antibiotics and hormones are routinely used and add to the problem. This is for all the people that read this blog If people are this concerned over their food then they should learn! Belittling the agency that has an enormous amount of rules and regulations in place to ensure this safety just shows how much more consumer education needs to be done. As technologically advanced as we are today there are still too many people that rely on half truths, twisted words, and self serving propoganda.
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From Your Site Articles. EcoWatch Daily Newsletter. Your Email Subscribe. You will need a meat grinder or a grinder attachment for a stand mixer such as Kitchen Aid.
Cut your meat into cubes and freeze slightly. Grind with the coarse blade first then run through again on the find blade. I grind my own pork all the time for homemade sausage.
The best solution is to find several families that are willing to share a quarter or side of beef, then go to a local farmer and work a deal. In my case, I raise chickens, turkeys, pigs, ducks, and sometimes rabbits, and when I need beef, I find a farmer who wants to trade! Thank you for this information. I did not know that!! Thank you for keeping us informed. Yes, grass-fed is very disappointing right now with marketing claims.
So all the more important to know where your meat is coming from. Being helpful is my pleasure! Thank you for this article Mammavation. What our FDA gets away with is mind blowing and really angers me! Thank you for stopping by Juliette! You keep being awesome! Lean fine textured beef is effectively nothing more than ground beef made by hand. Your own body produces ammonia as part of your metabolic process. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.
Learn how your comment data is processed. Menu Skip to primary navigation Skip to main content Skip to primary sidebar Skip to footer. Facebook 0. Twitter 0. LinkedIn 0. Pinterest 0. Table of Contents. I would waste the hell out of it. Beef producer for 60 years! No ammonia or slime in my meats.
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