Recently, the US Department of Agriculture announced plans to "relax" federal meat and poultry inspections, allowing meat processors greater leeway in policing themselves, already the agricultural trend. Most food activists ask how standards could be relaxed any further when drug residues, heavy metals, cleaning supplies, gasses, nitrites, hormones and other unwanted guests contaminate the meat supply. They are almost all unlabeled.
So here are the topics in the article...
1. Antibiotics
2. Bacteria
3. Cleaning Products
4. Hormones
5. Mad Cow Disease
6. Asthma-Like Drugs
7. Heavy Metals
8. Carbon Monoxide
9. Nitrites and Nitrates
There are a couple of paragraphs explaining each topic and why the problems are still relevant today.
So now that I've read the article I think I need a hamburger.
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All will be well as soon as we get rid of every one of those job-killing (TM), onerous, burdensome, terrible government regulations. Look how well it's worked out for the banking industry, after all.
I'm sure the meat-processors will be diligent in regulating themselves. [sarcasm]
We avoidmeat with nitrates when eating at home, but God knows what we eat when we eat out.
"they" say this is why boys/men are more girly now and far less masculine in built and face and girls develop earlier. Hmm.....
I'm a carnivore so this is tough.
Have you ever tried to find bacon without nitrates?
Bilbo - Exactly! I'm glad you have the correct attitude about the new way to do regulation.
Angel - I wonder if pink slime is regulated?
Elvis - It wouldn't surprise me me if the meat processor even hid their processes from God.
Peg - Supposedly cooking bacon in the high heat of a frying pan is what turns the nitrates into nitrosamines. Microwaving avoids that.
An example of a bad idea. This is why the FDA was first established.
Duck - God bless the FDA.
I am fortunate to be able to buy my beef from somebody that I know--grass fed on pasture that is free of pesticides and herbicides, no antibiotics (last steer did have a round for pink-eye that went through his small herd), no growth hormones. It is processed at a packing plant where I know the owners.
I wish I could find a pork supplier.
John - But what about BWW?
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