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At this point, the lean trim may be treated with a pH enhancement process that forms ammonium hydroxide in the finished product. Ammonium hydroxide is a natural constituent of meat, GRAS (Generally Regarded As Safe) approved by the FDA... the BPI process1 eliminated all E.coliO157:H7 in the inoculated product, as well as producing significant reductions of Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes. The pH enhanced product is marketed as BPI® Boneless Lean Beef Trimmings. BPI® Boneless Lean Beef Trimmings are approved for unrestricted use in ground beef and hamburger with no labeling restrictions other than... "beef."
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This stuff is now in all the ground beef from your supermarket, all the fast food burgers, all the hotdogs etc. It's estimated that they can "save" 2 to 3 cents per pound! (not you, "they"....) The industry-insider term for it is "yellow slime." But don't worry, the ground turkey isn't any better, not after they've been feeding the turkeys ground-up beef carcasses!  :toothy11:

P.S. - Have a GRE-EAT day! :hello2:
 
I watch my butcher cut off a hunk of chuck steak and throw it in the grinder, or I get ground buffalo sometimes. Usually mix w/veal or pork just for kicks. There is still real food in America, you just have to look for it.
 
Ok, I know there is a big difference between "real" meat from the butcher, and meat from the supermarket, but frankly, I don't care. If it tastes good, I'll eat it.
There are already additives and preservatives in everything else I eat, it was only a matter of time before they do something with my beef too.

 
I've done electrical work in a meat slicing plant.  The first step after unwrapping the carcass from the slaughter house, preservative injection.  Even the stuff the butcher has has been altered.

Okay, say we have unaltered beef, now the water has too much this and that.  The rest of our diet has too much high fructose corn syrup.  Get rid of that, it's something else.  Anyone remember Sacarin?
 
Super Turbo Deluxe Custom said:
  The rest of our diet has too much high fructose corn syrup.  Get rid of that, it's something else.  Anyone remember Sacarin?
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High fructose corn syrup is a killer.  I avoid it like the plague.  The only corn I'll eat is when its local and still on the cob.  (All jokes aside.)

Other than that, you are what you eat.  And, you get what you pay for.  Its a scary world out there regarding food safety these days.
 
Nightclub Dwight said:
Super Turbo Deluxe Custom said:
  The rest of our diet has too much high fructose corn syrup.  Get rid of that, it's something else.  Anyone remember Sacarin?
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High fructose corn syrup is a killer.  I avoid it like the plague.  The only corn I'll eat is when its local and still on the cob.  (All jokes aside.)

Other than that, you are what you eat.  And, you get what you pay for.  Its a scary world out there regarding food safety these days.
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I think it is a big deal too... I think I wrote about this before.. but when I moved to the US, it totally screwed with me after 2 months already! I blame the HFCS! I try to avoid it too... but it is in everything.. I am only really using splenda as a sweetener in pretty much everything, but God knows what that will do to me in the long run!

another thing about american food... I have not eaten one tum/rolaid EVER in my life! until I moved here.. I must now be their best customer over the past years! at first I thought something was wrong with my heart! I didn't even know what heartburn was before.. I don't even think there's a name for it in Dutch :)

 
Marko said:
Nightclub Dwight said:
Super Turbo Deluxe Custom said:
  The rest of our diet has too much high fructose corn syrup.  Get rid of that, it's something else.  Anyone remember Sacarin?
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High fructose corn syrup is a killer.  I avoid it like the plague.  The only corn I'll eat is when its local and still on the cob.  (All jokes aside.)

Other than that, you are what you eat.  And, you get what you pay for.  Its a scary world out there regarding food safety these days.
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I think it is a big deal too... I think I wrote about this before.. but when I moved to the US, it totally screwed with me after 2 months already! I blame the HFCS! I try to avoid it too... but it is in everything.. I am only really using splenda as a sweetener in pretty much everything, but God knows what that will do to me in the long run!

another thing about american food... I have not eaten one tum/rolaid EVER in my life! until I moved here.. I must now be their best customer over the past years! at first I thought something was wrong with my heart! I didn't even know what heartburn was before.. I don't even think there's a name for it in Dutch :)
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uw hart is op brand.
 
Luke said:
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uw hart is op brand.
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Thanks for reminding me... there is actually a dutch band that sings about this!  :icon_biggrin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGSrv1GnXMM
 
mmmmmmmmm ... burger!

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it's possible to eat healthy in the US - but it takes a conscious effort at all times to read ingredients and watch what you eat.

I stopped eating all food made from animals 4 months ago and I feel better than ever.
 
SkuttleFunk said:
mmmmmmmmm ... burger!

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For us meat-o-sauruses, that's the only way to fly.

4th of July rolls around and the brats & burgers will be a-cookin'.  :icon_thumright:
 
GoDrex said:
it's possible to eat healthy in the US - but it takes a conscious effort at all times to read ingredients and watch what you eat.

I stopped eating all food made from animals 4 months ago and I feel better than ever.
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What about food made BY animals?

Like.. if a chicken made you a PB&J? Would that be good?

I'd eat it...  :icon_thumright:
 
Luke said:
GoDrex said:
it's possible to eat healthy in the US - but it takes a conscious effort at all times to read ingredients and watch what you eat.

I stopped eating all food made from animals 4 months ago and I feel better than ever.
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What about food made BY animals?

Like.. if a chicken made you a PB&J? Would that be good?

I'd eat it...  :icon_thumright:
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well I would love to see that -- but nah, chickens are filthy animals - I could never be sure that it washed it's wings or whatever it uses to make the sandwich. :laughing8:
 
GoDrex said:
it's possible to eat healthy in the US - but it takes a conscious effort at all times to read ingredients and watch what you eat.

I stopped eating all food made from animals 4 months ago and I feel better than ever.
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I was Vegan for 2 years, and I felt amazing.  You have to be careful, though, there are milk sugars and beef fat in a lot of things that you wouldn't think there would be.

-Mark
 
GoDrex said:
Luke said:
GoDrex said:
it's possible to eat healthy in the US - but it takes a conscious effort at all times to read ingredients and watch what you eat.

I stopped eating all food made from animals 4 months ago and I feel better than ever.
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What about food made BY animals?

Like.. if a chicken made you a PB&J? Would that be good?

I'd eat it...  :icon_thumright:
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well I would love to see that -- but nah, chickens are filthy animals - I could never be sure that it washed it's wings or whatever it uses to make the sandwich. :laughing8:
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I mean.. it has plastic wing gloves, and a feather net on..  :laughing3:
 
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