Author Topic: Use fat scraps washed in ammonia in hamburger - to save 3 cents? (Read 2600 times)

littlerose · « **Reply #1 on:** January 02, 2010, 06:48:32 PM »

yuck :barf:

Is this also in general supermarket ground beef? It is a little inconvenient for me to get to the farmers' markets that meet once a week and hope one of the cattle ranchers will be there, but suddenly I feel motivated!

And real glad that when I did my shopping today I only bought fish and chicken for my "meat"!!!!

Elizabeth · « **Reply #2 on:** January 02, 2010, 08:50:35 PM »

:barf: :barf: :barf: :barf: :barf: :barf: :barf:
GAG!!!!!

sedetrad · « **Reply #3 on:** January 03, 2010, 11:33:13 AM »

IF anyone is interested in the early days of Americas processed food industry, read the jungle by Upton Sinclair. Ignore all the socialist propaganda in the book and focus on the conditions of the meat processing plants and you will vomit. I almost got sick when I read those parts of the book.

Matthew · « **Reply #4 on:** January 03, 2010, 08:00:02 PM »

All commercial beef producers feed corn to cattle, in locations called "feedlots".

In these feedlots, cattle become encrusted with their own filth. That is the meat they serve up all over the USA.

Yes, it takes work to grow your own beef, but for every convenience (i.e., not having to slaughter your own chickens/cows, pay the correct and NORMAL price for them, etc.) you have to sacrifice something.

In some cases, what you have to sacrifice is quite a bit -- sometimes your health, sometimes even your life! There was a boy (Kevin) who died from a new version of E. Coli after eating a few hamburgers while on vacation.

This new version of E. Coli didn't exist before they started feeding corn to cows -- something cows don't normally eat.

Nature fights back sometimes.

Matthew

St Jude Thaddeus · « **Reply #5 on:** January 04, 2010, 12:52:50 AM »

If you think beef production is disgusting, you should read about chickens!

Here's just one example: Arsenic in the chicken feed! Perfectly legal!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/25/AR2009062503381.html

In the late 80's while I was living in Latin America we had a big scandal in the country where I was with girls as young as eight years old growing breasts. I was a schoolteacher at the time and I noticed that most of the fifth graders looked like 1950's pin-up girls! Anyway, the problem was eventually traced back to a local subsidiary of a giant American agro-business firm, Cargill, which was supplying about sixty percent of the chicken meat to big-city markets. They were loading the chickens with hormones to make them grow and mature faster, and those hormones were getting through the cooking process and onto the little kiddies' dinner plates. The company paid a few juicy bribes and managed to keep things under wraps for a while but finally had to give in and change the feed formula.

Only God knows what they substituted the previous hormones with.

Catholic Samurai · « **Reply #6 on:** January 07, 2010, 06:36:01 PM »

Quote from: Matthew

All commercial beef producers feed corn to cattle, in locations called "feedlots".

In these feedlots, cattle become encrusted with their own filth. That is the meat they serve up all over the USA.

Yes, it takes work to grow your own beef, but for every convenience (i.e., not having to slaughter your own chickens/cows, pay the correct and NORMAL price for them, etc.) you have to sacrifice something.

In some cases, what you have to sacrifice is quite a bit -- sometimes your health, sometimes even your life! There was a boy (Kevin) who died from a new version of E. Coli after eating a few hamburgers while on vacation.

This new version of E. Coli didn't exist before they started feeding corn to cows -- something cows don't normally eat.

Nature fights back sometimes.

Matthew

Despite the fact that most (if not all) conventional ranchers (very foolishly) stuff their cattle with corn, IT IS A BIG NO NO! Why? Because cattle cannot digest corn because their rumens/stomachs cannot disassemble the starch/concentrated-sugar-compound in the corn! It get's digested eventually, but it takes a long time and meanwhile it's creating deadly amounts of gas which cause bloat in the animal which in the end cause the animal's stomach to explode in a matter of minutes (unless you can shove a hose down the animals mouth into their stomachs to let the gas out). And that's what happens when you introduce a cow to corn... what do you think happens when you feed a cow corn day after day?