You're not going to believe what you've been eating the last few years (thanks, Bush! thanks meat industry lobbyists!) when you eat a McDonald's burger (or the hamburger patties in kids' school lunches) or buy conventional ground meat at your supermarket:
According to today's New York Times, The "majority of hamburger" now sold in the U.S. now contains fatty slaughterhouse trimmings "the industry once relegated to pet food and cooking oil," "typically including most of the material from the outer surfaces of the carcass" that contains "larger microbiological populations."
Read more and cringe!
http://www.alternet.org/enviro...ost_u.s._ground_beef
One way to avoid this, insofar as ground beef in home cooking is concerned, is to buy a good cut of beef and have your in-store butcher grind it up for you. That way, you will get BETTER beef and none of that ammoniacal slime the lowlife lords of industry want to foist off on you.
Meanwhile, you should rent the documentary, "Food, Inc." and learn more about the bizarre, profiteering, unhealthy practices of the food and agriculture industries in this lobbied-to-death, fast-food, bad-food nation.
Link: http://www.foodincmovie.com/about-the-film.php
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