A couple of weeks ago I talked about those “Yummie Hamburgers” you get at your fast food chains and how the meat is injected with ammonia. If this was not bad enough to turn you off the fast food chains, this follow up may just do the trick.
I will tell you up front I am relaying a report from that most liberal of bastions, The New York Times, and that this is totally disgusting in more than one way.
It seems the meat that goes into the hamburgers you get at many fast food chains and in your grocery store comes from a product called ‘pink slime’ in the processing plants. As the butchers skin, cut, clean, slice, dice and grind the meat we eat there seems to be a little bit of stuff that splashes onto the floor of the processing plant.
In the years before our former beloved leader, President Bush, the U.S.D.A. rules stated that all that crap on the floor, that the factory workers walked through, when scraped up was only good enough for dog and cat food. Thanks to eight years of Republican leadership and the deregulation of corporations, the Bush era U.S.D.A. decided that this meat was fit for human consumption.
Go figure!
Picture if you can, in your own mind, butchering a cow in your home. I saw it enough when I was a kid with cows pigs and sheep. Never in my Grandfathers mind would he EVER think of taking the scrapings off the floor to feed to his children! This is the shavings, the cast offs and the “bad” meat that was exposed to intestinal bacteria. Not to mention the fact that people who had been out slopping pigs or feeding chickens could walk right in to lend a hand.
The reason it is called pink slime is obvious. Its the crap that you throw away and then tread under your dirty boot heel. It is meant to be mixed with grain and other cast off meat and boiled to feed the dogs and cats with. It is not meant for you to feed to your children!
The reason they inject it with ammonia is ever so obvious, to keep us from keeling over when we eat it and to make a buck while passing off dog food as a healthy hearty meal.
This holds true for many hamburger products you buy at the store as well. I urge you all to start buying steak or roast and asking your butcher in the store to grind it for you. Most of the ground beef you get today has some ‘pink slime’ in it whether you by it from a fast food chain or off the shelf.
Remember that this was brought to you by a Republican administration and that now we are forced to eat this crap.
Remember that the Obama administration is trying to put a stop to it, but it is much harder to reverse a law than enact it.
The very most important things to remember is that ‘pink slime’ is not fit for human consumption and is injected with toxic chemicals so that we can consume it.
Think of that the next time you want to feed you kids at the drive through!
To read a great article from The Grist about ammonia laced burgers and pink slime click here:
http://www.grist.org/article/2010-01-05-cheap-food-ammonia-burgersE-coli,ammonia,cow crap,pink slime. What else?
