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A couple of weeks ago Taco Bell was in the news for having been exposed for using "pink slime" in their ground beef. Apparently this "pink slime" can also be found in ground meet in super markets.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2 ... ink-slime/

***edited to make a correction.

I'm a butcher's daughter, wife, and former butcher myself and I would not be the least bit surprised if this were true.

In the 1940's, before they made it illegal, red food coloring was added to the grind and the display lights were red as well. It made old hamburger look wonderful.

In the early 1980's I worked at a butcher shop on my day off from my regular job and watched them as they added organ meats to day old hamburger to brighten it up and make it look fresh, totally illegal.

There is hardly any truth in advertising anymore. Yet another good reason to not eat meat!

i really don't think people care, i mean taco bell just announced a Doritos taco the other day, the entire shell is made out of variously flavored Doritos. Slime filled Doritos for .99$ is a recipe for success in this country.

taco bell doesn't have hamburgers. do we mean taco meat - it's not slime consistency...

btw, why would people who eat animals CARE which part of the cow they're eating? when they chew on t-bones from steak to get the last morsel, aren't they maybe eating some of the stuff that would be in the so called slime? and people boil animal parts to make soup stock/bouillion/stew-y dishes.

we used to teach how resourceful it was of pre-historic civs to use all of the animal. how come t-bell isn't being lauded for resourcefulness??? it's "green" of them!



are we just discussing this cause it's nasty and disgusting? don't most of us think ANY animal consumption is -- wait for it --- nasty and disgusting?

just sayin'

It isn't the parts of the animal but the fact that it is washed in ammonia and maybe subjected to other indignities. Yuk., Bye the way, I read that when meat starts to go bad in the supermarket it is often soaked in bleach. I once bought a piece of mahi mahi for my daughter and on the package there was a picture of a lemon and the words, lemon fresh. When I got it home and opened the package it was obviously spoiled and the market had used the lemon juice to try to mask the odor.

I also always tear the plastic wrap on boxes of mushrooms and sniff them to make sure they are fresh. And often also tear bagged potatoes. I have been stung too many times.

I have also noticed that even the fruits and vegetables have a better color and look fresher in the super market, no doubt due to the lights. That nice red tomato always looks a lot duller when I unpack it at home and the dark, shiny purple eggplant somehow loses its luster between the market and my home.

Didi

Ha ha I meant their hamburger meat, which is what I call all ground meat. Whatever you call it, it had pink slime in it. But they said they were discontinuing it's use. My point, was no one knows what the heck they are getting anymore. Now I am going to go correct my post.

you're so right, Jackie!

which is why this diet is so comforting on so many levels!

Didi in a lot of small, independent butcher shops diluted bleach is still widely used on meat and also in some Chinese restaurants I've been to. I've sent bleached food back in one place never to return. Old meat gets slimy and the bleach takes it right off.

In the big chain stores like Safeway, it doesn't happen anymore. Well not around where I live anyway. A store could get closed down for something like that.

Years ago I read some books written by Adelle Davis, the famous nutritionist in the 1950's and she suggested bleaching all meats for bacteria control. I did that myself for awhile in my carnivore days and the meat lasted a lot longer, then stopped because it just didn't feel right.

Adelle Davis - wow, a blast from the past! i read all her stuff back in the day - did you, also, Jennifer?

did you read Euell Gibbons, too? he was an interesting character!

isn't it interesting that anyone w/ a viewpoint that's not in sync w/ "mainstream america" is viewed as wackadoodle by pop media? instead of searching for a truth hidden in message, the press takes off on campaign to discredit the messenger.

course that's a generalization, but it was interesting to see VJ's reference to Adelle Davis and recall the nastiness of the fourth estate back in the day....

Gross...I really do not believe what manufactures tell us when it comes to their products...That is why I LOVE this way of eating....good whole foods..no surprises...I don't touch processed junk..
I even stopped eating cereal(Kashi cinnamon wheat) , because of the levels allowed by the government pertaining to "bugs" acceptable that accidentally get into it during processing(google it)
YUK
I will just stick to my whole plant foods, starches, and fruits

Yes that is so true about bugs. At least you can wash fresh produce, although I've heard that things like apples have a lot of pesticide in them. I can't get organic apples in my grocery store. And then there was the cantelope contamination last year. It's getting so difficult to find clean food. I hate to think about what it will be like for future generations. Agriculture has changed so much from when I was a child back in the 1950's.

I tell friends who make fun of me for being a vegetarian that there's no such thing as "mad tofu disease."

I was an Adelle Davis fanatic in my early 20s. I was a vegetarian so I ignored what she said about meat, but I used to fortify my milk with extra milk powder ... and I drank milkshakes with raw eggs in them. I became obsessed with protein from reading her books (and Diet for a Small Planet) and had to do lots of "unlearning" later on. I read a few years back that she made up lots of her facts and figures and that the references in the back of her books don't always back up what she actually says!

I started reading Adelle Davis in 1984 when I went to massage school and began exploring holistic health. My goal was to determine why I had to have gallbladder surgery at the age of 24, she helped me see the light about a lot of things I'd been eating. I liked Euell Gibbons, he was a hoot, loved him! While in high school I used to eat only Grape-Nuts cereal, used to call it my bowl of "wild hickory nuts" like he called them in the commercials. My dad used to suggest that I go to the park to eat wild plants. Now that I think about it, I would have been better off doing so!

Jen, i was self supporting thru college and determined to "Euell" it w/ dandelion greens (gee, just ponder the pesticide possibilities there!) and anything else that was growing on the side of the roads leading to lecture halls....

so funny in hindsight!

remember how Adelle recommended eating soooooo much protein pre-stressful events? like cow's liver _ ew!

forgot about adding powdered milk to reg milk - ew!!!!