This post is for AWD. Time for some pictures.
70% of all Ground Beef Contains “Pink Slime” … and USDA Bought 7 Million Pounds of the Stuff for School Lunches
ABC news notes:
“Pink slime,” a cheap meat filler, is in 70 percent of the ground beef sold at supermarkets and up to 25 percent of each American hamburger patty, by some estimates.
The USDA just bought 7 million pounds of pink slime to add to school lunches (up from 5.5 million pounds in 2009).
Jamie Oliver gave a must-watch demonstration on the subject a year ago:
But at least we know where the real meat part of ground beef comes from … right?
Nope … the World Trade Organization struck down American laws requiring labeling of beef to disclose the country of origin:
But at least beef is being tested for horrible diseases like mad cow disease, right?
Negatory: the government does very little testing … and prohibits private citizens such as ranchers or meat packers from testing it themselves.
What Should We Do?
So what’s the answer?
You could cook a pot roast or other cut of meat and grind it yourself. That way, you’ll be sure there’s nothing but real meat.
Or you could buy grass-fed beef. Organic, grass-fed usually contains no pink slime.
And all grass-fed beef – organic or not – has a much lower risk for mad cow than other types of beef.
Why?
Because mad cow disease is most commonly caused by feeding animal products to cows. For example, Wikipedia notes:
A British inquiry into BSE [the scientific abbreviation for mad cow] concluded that the [disease] was caused by cattle, who are normally herbivores, being fed the remains of other cattle in the form of meat and bone meal (MBM), which caused the infectious agent to spread.
If they are fed grass – their natural food – they are much less likely to get sick.
Stores like Trader Joe’s label grass fed, so it is easy to find.
Grass-fed beef contains more Omega 3s than beef from cows fed corn, meat or other “modern” feeds. See this and this.
Why is this important? Because eating Omega 3 rich foods can increase gray matter in adults and boost neurological development in children. Conversely, low dietary levels of Omega 3s in mothers can reduce their kids’ IQ. (This is not entirely surprising, given that (1) our brains are about 60% fat, and (2) leading nutritionists say that humans evolved to consume alot of Omega 3 fatty acids in the wild game and fish which they ate (more), and that a low Omega 3 diet is a very new trend within the last 100 years or so).
And if you think that asking for organic beef is a counterculture hippy thing, note that Ronald Reagan insisted on organic meat.
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
Denninger was talking about something similar on his blog (http://market-ticker.org/post=203155).
There have also been a ton of articles about how nasty is the food going into school lunches.
If you can manage a large deep freezer, like in your garage, you can get an entire grass fed cow butchered for you and frozen. That is what I do and grind my own hamburger with the grinding attachment on my Kitchen Aide. I do the same with most of my pork. It really doesn’t add that much in the way of time/money and at least I know what the fuck is in my food.
Now if I could just talk Mr. HZK into some dairy goats…..
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11th March 2012 at 3:40 pm
IndenturedServant says:
I am scheduled to have surgery later this month and went to the blood bank to donate my own blood if needed. I was informed that since I lived in the UK during a major outbreak of BSE I cannot donate blood or blood products to anyone but myself. Fucking corporations, in the quest for even more dollars, feed animal byproducts to herbivores like cattle! These fucks should be tied up and force fed this shit until they die!
Thanks to the impending economic collapse and me being aware it, I now buy whole grass fed beef and organic pork directly from the people who raise them. My diet has improved quite a bit since the collapse began. I’m still a fat fuck but if this surgery works I should be able to increase my activity level by 80%. With a little luck and a lot of hard work, there should be a lot less of me to love or hate as the case may be.
I_S
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11th March 2012 at 4:42 pm
DaveL says:
There are three kinds of energy sources in food. Carbohydrates, Fats, and Proteins. Does anyone think that your body cells know the difference between pink slime and filet mignon? I’ll bet there are a few hundred million Asians and Africans who would line up for this stuff.
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11th March 2012 at 5:26 pm
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
@IS: Good luck with your surgery!! I too am banned from being a blood donor since I lived in Kenya for a year, which is okay, because I used to almost faint everytime I gave blood prior, lol.
For example, yesterday I spend most of the day making sweet Italian sausages and some venison sausages. Yum yum, we ate some with our pasta last night and the rest are sitting in the freezer/fridge just waiting for us. No preservatives, certainly NO pink slime.
Although I must say that putting the hog casing on the sausage stuffer gave Mr. HZK some “ideas”.
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11th March 2012 at 5:36 pm
DavosSherman says:
Not just for dog food anymore. Sprayed with ammonia.
Mmmmmm.
I’ll stick to my fucking dead cow I buy every year and bring from the local farmer to the local butcher. Eff this shit. The FDA is a poster child for corporatocracy induced regulatory capture. Fucking you with your very own tax dollars.
bon appeiti
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11th March 2012 at 5:36 pm
sensetti says:
Good Luck with the surgery I_S
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11th March 2012 at 5:39 pm
crazyivan says:
gophers are under the radar so far.
ketchup helps.
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11th March 2012 at 6:06 pm
Administrator says:
The pink slime resembles Dave Dumbfuck’s brain, but has more intelligence.
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11th March 2012 at 7:05 pm
IndenturedServant says:
DaveL, You catch a lot of shit around here and I try not to get involved in bringing you down but damn dude! You may bet there are a few hundred million Asians and Africans that would line up for this shit but there ARE a few hundred million AMERICANS lining up and paying for this poison. If you don’t think your body knows the difference you are sadly mistaken. I know that fast food made me feel bad enough EVERY time I consumed it that I quit consuming it more than ten years ago.
I cannot speak specifically to the pink slime but I do know that several African nations have refused shipments of genetically modified foods that we sent as part of food aid shipments for starving people.
I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed but you should google some of the topics you post about before posting. You’d probably cut the amount of shit thrown your way by 50%!
I_S
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11th March 2012 at 7:40 pm
Zara says:
If you think that shit is bad, you wouldn’t want to see what goes into your McChicken sammich.
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11th March 2012 at 7:59 pm
AWD says:
Ha, I ran the pink slime McShits post. Again, we have to learn our news from a Russian T.V. station.
“I’ll bet there are a few hundred million Asians and Africans who would line up for this stuff.”
DaveL is not only a dipshit, but a racist. He has a two neuron brain, one neuron is dog shit, the other is made of pink slime. They synapse to form his 10 I.Q. brain.
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11th March 2012 at 8:01 pm
No Field Five says:
Not to pile on, DaveL, but really… If you think that ADM, Tyson, and other “food” providers (or the FDA) really give a rat’s ass about your health as opposed to their own survival, you need to take a long look around. Yes, there are only carbs, proteins, and fats, but the organism which causes Mad Cow disease (BSE or bovine spongiform encephalopathy) is simply a protein. You may not be able to tell by the taste or smell, but your body will be stressed by the repeated ingestion of toxins.
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11th March 2012 at 8:34 pm
DaveL says:
I.S. says: “My diet has improved quite a bit since the collapse began. I’m still a fat fuck.”
How is that, if you gave up shit food ten years ago?
NFF says: “Yes, there are only carbs, proteins, and fats, but the organism which causes Mad Cow disease (BSE or bovine spongiform encephalopathy) is simply a protein.”
I’m sorry, I guessed I missed the part that “pink slime” was loaded with BSE and toxins.
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11th March 2012 at 8:58 pm
DaveL says:
Ok asswipes, so I Goolged up pink slime and first up?????
“Pink slime is a term coined by Dr. Gerald Zirnstein[2] for boneless lean beef trimmings or similar products that have passed through a centrifuge. The product is sold in the US by a number of beef processing companies, including Cargill Meat Solutions and Beef Products, Inc.[citation needed] The lean beef sold by BPI has become known for increasing the pH of the beef trimmings by adding ammonium hydroxide to destroy pathogens such as E. coli and Salmonella, while the Cargill product uses antimicrobial treatments that lower the pH.[citation needed] This beef product (“lean, finely textured meat”) is USDA-approved and is a component in the majority of ground beef patties sold in the United States, in which up to 25 percent of the additive beef is used in the final product.”
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I think I’ll head on outside and pick up some more pieces of sky from my back yard. And then, maybe I’ll fix me up a nice sandwich made with peanut butter that the FDA allows to contain any combination of five rodent hairs and insect parts per teaspoon. I’ve seen the sausage made. It ain’t pretty, but it doesn’t kill you. Just another fucking alarmist news item. Do you know they take parts of the cow that ain’t good for anything else, boil em up, skim off the scum that comes floating to the surface, dry it out, add some sugar and flavoring and you get J-E-L-L-O!
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11th March 2012 at 9:09 pm
Buddabull says:
95 percent of Americans are food ignorant There is a difference between quality and quantity , organic beef is quality and pink slime is quantity. You have to remember that this country was built on cheap energy, food and low taxes today we have none of it. Just check out the futures prices in the beef and pork market to see where prices are headed. I have just seen 575 pound feeder steers being sold for 2 dollars a pound. Now they have to feed them out 1200 to 1500 pounds which will take any where from 9 to 12 months. What do you think that steak will cost?
Pink slime in hamburg is just the tip of the iceberg. Check out the ingredients on your lunch meat, hot dogs, sausage, etc. Read the labels on flavor enhanced meat and poultry and see that you are paying for 15% added water and salt. My advice would be to find local raised meat and taste the difference.
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11th March 2012 at 9:10 pm
No Field Five says:
DaveL, I don’t believe anyone here specified what ingredients are used to make “Pink Slime”. I said nothing about pink slime containing BSE and toxins; I was merely refuting your implication that all proteins are energy sources, thus benign.
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11th March 2012 at 9:13 pm
DaveL says:
“AWD says:
Ha, I ran the pink slime McShits post. Again, we have to learn our news from a Russian T.V. station.
“I’ll bet there are a few hundred million Asians and Africans who would line up for this stuff.”
DaveL is not only a dipshit, but a racist. He has a two neuron brain, one neuron is dog shit, the other is made of pink slime. They synapse to form his 10 I.Q. brain.”
Nothing racist about it dumbass. It’s protein and fat. Not in heavy fucking supply in parts of Asia and Africa.
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11th March 2012 at 9:14 pm
Administrator says:
Nothing racist about referring to the President as Mulatto in Chief.
Admit it Dave. You’re an old timer racist from SC.
Your idol was Strom Thurmond.
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11th March 2012 at 9:19 pm
DaveL says:
“A December, 2009, New York Times article called into question the safety of the meat treated by this process, pointing to occasions in which process adjustments were not effective.[3] The following week, the paper published an editorial, “More Perils of Ground Meat,” reiterating the concerns posed in the news article. Several days later the editorial was appended with a retraction stating that it had “mischaracterized the safety record of ground meat produced by Beef Products Inc” in the original news article (since corrected). Furthermore, as of January 12, 2010, “No meat produced by Beef Products Inc. has been linked to any illnesses or outbreaks.”[8]”
If pink slime was made of assholes, I’d be abouth the only one left on this blog site.
“No Field Five says:
DaveL, I don’t believe anyone here specified what ingredients are used to make “Pink Slime”. I said nothing about pink slime containing BSE and toxins; I was merely refuting your implication that all proteins are energy sources, thus benign.”
Exactly. Nobody here mentioned the ingredients, but many saw it simply as shit that shouldn’t exist. And I never implied that there weren’t bad proteins, fats, or carbohydrates. You just inferred it. I simply stated that the body lives off of three energy sources from food. The cells will use the amino acids and fatty acids in pink slime or filet mignon.
“Administrator says:
Nothing racist about referring to the President as Mulatto in Chief.
Admit it Dave. You’re an old timer racist from SC.”
When did fact become racism to you? Is he or is he not a mulatto? Is he or is he not our Commander in Chief? I say tomato and you twist it into ni–er.
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11th March 2012 at 9:33 pm
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11th March 2012 at 9:56 pm
IndenturedServant says:
Now I’m sorry I suggested DaveL google the topics. Encouragement bad!
Like DaveL, the majority of Americans eating this shit don’t really care what they put in their bodies. To each his own. I don’t want anyone telling me what i should eat so I won’t preach. I know less about the majority of food I eat than I should but I’m getting better about that.
I_S
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11th March 2012 at 10:09 pm
AWD says:
DaveL:
Go fuck yourself, and your mother. That’s what your older brother did, and you popped out 9 months later. So, your older brother is also your dad. Didn’t anybody tell your mom that incest/inbreeding causes retardation? I guess not. She tried the coat-hanger on you, but you crawled away up into her chest cavity. She tried the vacuum cleaner attachment, and you crawled up behind her liver, and she tried the free clinic, but you outsmarted the “doctor” by pretending to be her spleen. She tried to sell you to the circus, but they elephant wouldn’t eat you. She dropped you off at the orphanage, but they found her and gave you back. So, now you think you have a pair, but they’re your dad’s/brother’s. Don’t fucking try to be a tough guy, or we’ll send your nuts and ass to China C.O.D., and the rest of you will be unrecognizable. Why don’t you take a fucking hint and fuck off back to the AOL tween message boards, they miss your “pee wee football quarterback” moniker you fucked-in-the-head pervert fuckwad.
DaveL thinking he scored some points:
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11th March 2012 at 10:44 pm
AWD says:
DaveL:
Some words to the wise
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11th March 2012 at 10:47 pm
AWD says:
DaveL
Admin’s given you enough rope, and now you’ve hung yourself motherfucker. You get on our bad side and your life here is gonna be more miserable than getting ass-fucked by 35 black dudes and 35 inbred white hillbillies, although I’m sure you’d enjoy that fucktard.
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11th March 2012 at 10:55 pm
Anonymous says:
The shocking part about this cheap meat filler is you can be eating a hamburger and drinking a coke and all of the sudden your mind will snap. The individual has a terrifying break with reality, a malevolent dark hideous homicidal rant flows out of this once rational human being. The capacity to have a rational conversation is lost. The goal of logical thoughtful communication and a free exchange of ideas is lost. Dark emotional conversation is less than useless so please don’t eat pink meat filler.
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11th March 2012 at 6:25 am
DaveL says:
That’s a great retort Another Wimpy Dolt (AWD). It is so laughable that you paint me as a racist dumbfuck by posting pictures of kids with Trisomy 21. I’ll bet parents of children with Down Syndrome are just rolling on the floor after reading your posts.
Did your mother have any children that lived?
“She tried the coat-hanger on you, but you crawled away up into her chest cavity.”
Now that’s anatomically impossible, along with go fuck yourself. You’re not the sharpest knife in the drawer are you?
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11th March 2012 at 1:56 pm
AWD says:
DaveL
You’re gonna wish you were never born you fucking retard.
DaveL trying to show he has a pair.
You dumb cocksucker, speaking of your mother, I fucked her in the ass last night, then she swallowed a load of my baby batter.
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11th March 2012 at 2:06 pm
AWD says:
This is what DaveL’s ass looked like after all the fireworks (35 black dudes/35 inbred white hillbillies).
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11th March 2012 at 2:09 pm
AWD says:
DaveL sayz:
I just pulled a 70 dude train, and I’m ready for more man meat.
Just can’t get enough dick can ya Dave?
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11th March 2012 at 2:11 pm
AWD says:
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11th March 2012 at 2:53 pm
DaveL says:
Always Wears Diapers (AWD) says: “You dumb cocksucker, speaking of your mother, I fucked her in the ass last night, then she swallowed a load of my baby batter.”
Wow, an admitted necrophile in front of 12000 readers, as well as being a dumbass.
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11th March 2012 at 7:21 pm
~MAC~ says:
hey you kids ~ take your pissing match up the road ~ adults are trying to talk here!
(isn’t this place moderated?)
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11th March 2012 at 7:22 am
Administrator says:
MAC
Go fuck yourself.
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11th March 2012 at 7:35 am