[AT] Healthy Eating, was "Just checking"

[Ron Cook]

The "pink slime" stuff originated right here where I live.  Well, within 
20 miles.  All the hamburger you could buy in grocery stores or in cafes 
or fast food places all got just as poor as could be.  I told my wife 
that something had gone haywire in the hamburger industry and I was 
going to buy a meat grinder and grind my own.  I never have got the 
grinder yet, but at about that time the real story broke as to what had 
happened to the ground beef.  The scraps that came out of Tyson, 
formerly IBP, were going across the road to BPI that had figured out how 
to fix up the scraps for human consumption that were formerly used in 
livestock feed.  Mad Cow disease stopped that.  Enter Finely Textured 
Beef.   That finely textured beef may have been beef, alright, but it 
was still crap. The main problem was that the public was never informed 
what they were getting and BPI was making a killing selling beef scrap 
and the savings were not being passed to the consumer at all.  I now buy 
all my beef on the hoof and have it processed.  I have excellent 
hamburger!  I am afraid the poor children in the schools are still 
getting the cheap crap for lots of money, as are the jails, army, etc.  
I did have some friends lose their good jobs in the aviation industry 
when BPI closed most of their plants.  Too bad, but some of us just want 
what we are paying for.  My opinion as I see it and I am not changing my 
mind, ever!

Ron Cook
Salix, IA

On 11/5/2015 2:40 PM, Stephen Offiler wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Dean VP <deanvp at att.net> wrote:
>
>> Relative to taste, I might not live as long but grain fed beef outshines
>> range fed beef by a huge
>> amount. One can usually tell by how much marbling is in the beef. Huge
>> difference.  Need a little of
>> that fat to grease the skids.
>
> I am buying pasture-raised beef from a local farmer and the taste is
> fantastic.  I have not done an apples-to-apples taste-test with grain fed.
> Happy with the local pasture stuff as-is.
>
>
>
>> McDonalds continued to remove all the so called "bad stuff" from their
>> hamburgers until they satisfied the do-gooders.  Only one
>> problem....customers quit buying hem.  Their
>> hamburgers didn't taste good any more.
>
> I think it's more complicated than that.  Just one of a variety of
> additional factors is that McDonald's started using "pink slime" in the
> burgers.  If you don't know what that is, Google it.
>
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