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[katkitty]

This is (supposedly) banned in Europe...don't know about here in America, they never said if it's done here (I would hope not!) but in Australia.....I'm flabbergasted! Fascinating to watch & see what lengths an industry will go to to deceive & turn a bigger profit:

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Meanwhile, here in America, know & trust your source of where your ground meat originates from!!!

Excerpt with link to entire article below:

It’s a new process called “ADVANCED MEAT RECLAMATION.”

It’s easy to remove the meat from the long bones, but a fair amount of meat exists in the backbones, which is nearly impossible to extract. The back bones also contain the spinal cord and, up until Mr. Roth came along, the vertebrae were processed into dog food.

He founded a company called BEEF PRODUCTS. His new company began mixing the entire vertebrae, spinal cord and all, along with what the industry calls 50-50 (trimmings and fats), grinding it into a mixture of pink froth, adding ten percent anhydrous ammonia to kill pathogens such as E-coli and salmonella and selling it to Cargil, McDonald’s Corp, Burger King, the school lunch program and anyone wanting to cheapen the cost of hamburger. The use of this product lessens the cost of a pound of ground beef by about three cents.

Several USDA microbiologists have raised warning flags concerning the approval of the treated beef for sale without obtaining validation of the safety risk. Gerald Zirnstein, one of those microbiologists, called the processed beef “pink slime” and said, “I do not consider the stuff to be ground beef, and I consider allowing it in ground beef to be a form of fraudulent labeling.”

This mashlike substance is frozen into blocks and used in a majority of the hamburger sold nationwide. BEEF PRODUCTS reported its production is approximately seven million pounds a week and suppliers of national restaurant chains, as well as the government’s school lunch program, use the product.

McDonald’s has been using this reclaimed beef since 2004, which like Wal-Mart’s ground beef, can contain up to 20 percent “advanced meat reclamation.” During the last school year the school lunch program used 3.5 million pounds.

SURVIVING GROUND MEAT

http://www.newswithviews.com/brownfield/brownfield188.htm

Bon Appetit !!!