January 21, 2012
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mmm, cheeseburger...not!
soylent ...pink?
I still love cheeseburgers.
but i guess I'm old fashioned....could always live with the old formula of the fda which did have a small allowance for, er, um, small percentage of cow by-products in ground beef...icky i know but it had been that way since before my parents were born...then came the rise in e-coli poisonings...real cause unknown, most likely due to an industrialisation of cows as products of mass consumption....much finger pointing on all sides, people dead, including children.
and so the gods of the fast food machine, when given the choice between insisting that meat vendors clean up their acts and stop treating living beings as commodities and perhaps spending a little bit more or going with a quick technological fix that in turn created new sub industries for meat that was previously unusable for even pet food purposes and making a quick buck in the process, well, obviously the health of the public comes first, right?
right?
hello?
it just goes to show, that with enough monosodium glutamate, apathy, secrecy, aluminium hydroxide, and ignorance, even dead cow can taste pretty good.
McDonald's and two other fast-food chains have stopped using an ammonia-treated burger ingredient that meat industry critics deride as 'pink slime.' The product remains widely used as low-fat beef filling in burger meat, including in school meals.
edit: I incorrectly listed aluminium hydroxide as an ingredient in the sliming process, when actually its ammonium hydroxide. But don't worry, the aluminium is found in the cheese in the form of sodium aluminium phosphate, lest that cheese refuse to calcify.
enjoy!
Comments (6)
i might throw up now.
@promisesunshine -
billions and billions served...you're in good company, at least.
: )
a further visual i could live without. :/
mmm one of the things that made me quit eating at McDonald's regularly was reading the book Fast Food Nation. I never really put much thought into what the food was and how it got there. It was a real eye opener.
The husband and I stay away from ground meat from the grocery or fast food. It's obscene what passes for food in some places!
@oceanstarr - I still eat at least 20 times a week at least...just glad they're making it well known so more fast food restaurants and schools put the pressure on the meat industry....wow that just doesn't sound good at all, "the meat industry"
once heard something about if you enjoy eating sausage, you should probably never go to a sausage making plant...but this went aways beyond even that.
pink soylent, indeed.