5thwheeleroldman
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My wife about has me sworn off ground beef. According to news investigations, a lot of the meat companies are grinding up waste meat, fat, blood, etc that used to be discarded, and injecting it back into the ground beef. They have to treat it with a chemical to kill harmful bacteria. I have noticed that I don't like hamburger patties like I used to, and that the meat stinks when I start browning it for chili, etc.
I'm about ready to buy a grinder and just grind my own hamburger out of roasts.
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mockturtle
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I haven't used ground beef for many years. After all, the e-coli thing came about from grinding up intestines with the meat.
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I have used round steak and grind it myself best burger you can get, it is also nice and lean.
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tonyandkaren
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Watch Food Inc. - http://www.amazon.com/Food-Inc/dp/B002VRZEYM
You will not eat a hamburger in a restaurant or buy premade frozen burgers again. Or eat Tyson or Predue chicken. It's much, much worse than you think.
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5thwheeleroldman wrote:
I'm about ready to buy a grinder and just grind my own hamburger out of roasts.
We did this about 5yrs ago. Grind our own turkey, beef, chicken, etc....tastes way better and no worries of slime. Actually this year will be raising our own chickens and possibly buyng a side o beef from a local rancher.
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RoadLife
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I had absolutely no idea until the expose came out. The chemical they use is AMMONIA. It is just GROSS. No wonder folks get IBS.
I read a list of stores that do not use pink slime. Costco is one. Publix and Ingles do not. You can google to find out which ones.
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I heard that they have been doing this since 1991.
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past-MIdirector
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I only believe half of what I read, 10% of what the news shows/specials and nothing that the government says. We have never got sick from the food we eat and if it smells bad it goes back to the store.
If you ever went and watch food being processed you'd sear off everything that is on the store shelves. The thing that puts us apart from other countries is we do have standards that are required to be followed or the place is fined/closed down. We do not buy seafood from WalMarts since most comes from Asia and they have almost no standards.
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5thwheeleroldman
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I've seen the list of stores that do not accept pink slime. Unfortunately, none of them operate in our area.
I grew up on a farm. We butchered our own pork and beef, cut our own steaks, ground our own sausage, etc. It was a little gross, but it didn't stink and it wasn't filthy. Dad took great care to see that none of the intestines touched any of the meat --- cut the head off, remove the esophagus, cut out around the anus, never ever puncture the intestines, then dump all the intestines into a #3 wash tub (us boys carried it way downwind in the pasture for the buzzards to feast) --- then wash out the body cavity with fresh well water. So don't tell me butchering has to be filthy.
My wife has turned with colitis, a very difficult problem, and sometimes I wonder if it has to do with some of this stuff they add to the meat to make it weigh more.
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Jim Shoe
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There is a middle ground that falls short of raising a cow and/or pig in your back yard and butchering it yourself. They're called butcher shops. If you walk in and it stinks, turn around and walk out. The good ones cost a little more, but they know what they're doing if they've been in business awhile, and they are well aware that there's nobody to blame but them. The one I go to doesn't sell pork chops that are tougher than Chinese arithmetic, and cuts a steak to my requirements. If I want a 1 1/2" strip steak, they cut it in front of me after showing me the loin. Their ground chuck is actually made of chuck, and they grind it fresh 5 or 6 times a day.
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