Food of the United States is a sheer and utter disgrace

k. doesn't look like any cattle I've ever consumed, but whatever helps you sleep at night...

There is no such thing as "hamburger". Ground beef is made from various cuts of cattle ground together, ground sirloin is made from .. yea, ground pieces of sirloin. The disgusting slop in the picture comes from pieces and part that no human would consume if they knew which part of the cow it came from.

Nope, neither is the obesity crisis infecting America that McDonalds, BK, JitB or Taco Bell don't want to talk about. But keep shoveling down your slop piggy.

 

You know what? I'll just eat fresh beef that's been prepared without the excess processing McDonald's has to put theirs through to make it fit for consumption. You have every right to make your body into a sewage pit, as does anyone, but that's not a good reason to do it.

If you are worried about e coli tainted foods, then you are eating in the wrong places. Again, your right, should you choose to exercise them that way.

 

Yeah everybody is lying to you.

I never claimed it came from specific cuts of beef. Get a clue.

The 'obesity crisis' is made up in order to bring down even more government control over what YOU can buy or consume. Since when is McDonalds supposed to be responsible for what you shove down your pie-hole? Oh yeah, I forgot, folks like YOU live the life of victimization...everyone ELSE is responsible for your BAD habits.

 

Fresh beef has ammonium hydroxide NATURALLY.

One SHOULD be more worried about NATURALLY OCCURRING E-Coli than NATURALLY OCCURRING ammonium hydroxide which KILLS E-Coli.

 

Then it doesn't need any more.

Then one should avoid eating in establishments that need to treat beef from diseased or otherwise unhealthy cattle or have serious concerns around preparation.

 

No one has to tell me anything, I know a butcher and I know folks who raise cattle.

Says the guy eating pink slime.

Some 50% of Americans are more than 20lbs overweight, hardly a surprise when the slop salesmen have folks like you vouching for their putrid garbage. I don't want government telling anyone what to eat, but if you choose to eat pink slime that's your deal. I'm just not going to sit here and pretend it's anything other than piggy slop for fat 'Muricans.

 

The OP is a farce to begin with.

In the USA, you can find food from every part of the world, prepared for you, by an expert chef, in a restaurant, with the highest quality ingredients, served to you, at a reasonable price.

Which is one of the reasons, the USA is the envy of the rest of the world.

And probably the real reason some of us tend to overeat sometimes.

BECAUSE THE FOOD IS DELICIOUS AND HEALTHIER THAN JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD

 

Does this make sense to people?

The way these posters are offended by the idea that there is something wrong with our food?

Really?

I mean really try and put yourself there, what could motivate these people to be offended by the idea there is something wrong with our food.

 

WRONG!
We don't have a problem with the GOOD food. It's the BAD food we are talking about!

FACT: The United States has some of the most Frankenstein food on the planet. OTHER NATIONS DO NOT HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO MOLLEST NATURE AS VEHEMENTLY AS THE UNITED STATES.

FACT: The people of the United States are shockingly fat, diseased, and disgusting, the higher percentage of who EAT THE €£¥#%^* FRANKEN FOOD.

FACT: The US FRANKEN FOOD has pervaded nearly every aspect of society to the point it is impossible to find natural food in ever expanding regions of the US.

You connect the dots!

 

People are fat because they're eating and drinking to excess and often eating foods with artificial items like HFCS, oil, excessive salt, etc. The average tomato, meat, and lettuce isn't the issue, it's eating processed foods and too much of it. People are not getting fat and unhealthy eating meals they create themselves with meat and produce bought at the store, it's people slamming soda and eating fast food 4 times a day. "Franken foods" are not that bad. Plants that are more resistant to disease and that produce higher yields are a good thing, especially in a world where starvation is still an issue. The biggest issue I hear with them is lack of genetic diversity, which means if a bad disease does break out, entire harvests can fail. I've also heard the plants are less nutritious, however that is a general issue caused by bad soil from re-planting the same crops year after year which suck out the same nutrients, nutrients replaced by fertilizer.

 

Excuse me...farmers saved some seeds from their crops every season to plant for the next season. Monsanto's GM seeds put a halt to that insuring they must come to them for more seeds. Maybe that's why Monsanto owns some 90% of the seed business? Ya think?

 

No one is forcing YOU to eat anything. I just proved to you that your food protestations are hyperbole fueled by the false information FED to you. The fact you call it 'pink slime' really mirrors juvenile-like unfounded defiance syndrome that manifests itself when one hasn't the mental facility to objectively consider the facts of a situation and, therefore, tend to believe any notion they deem the popular (group think).

This mental condition is most prevalent in the young who constantly want to be individuals but, at the same time, are petrified if they don't 'fit in' within the confines of their particular group. Liberals usually exhibit this mental condition as well which is why they believe that finely textured beef is 'pink slime.'

 

I agree. The bread is horrible, I do not know how Americans eat it. The fish in the supermarkets is not fresh, it makes me sick.

And I have read some really disturbing things about where American meat comes from:

http://www.mercyforanimals.org/investigations.aspx

But American supermarkets do have a very wide variety of fruits.

 

Lol, we do have some good local places just out of the cities that sell good food haha

 

That isn't quite true. In Europe we certainly do have the same technology available to us. We have decided not to use it to anything like the same extent, and to make sure that where it is being used food is clearly labelled so that people can actually choose whether or not to to eat it.

 

I think that the lack of respect for small farmers and the favoring of corporations instead of these small farmers comes from the fact that America was capitalist from the get-go, unlike Europe which emerged from feudalism and therefore still has respect for the little guy ingrained in their culture.

 

Feudalism ingrained respect for the little guy into their culture?

You gotta be kidding. Feudalism was all about sticking it to the little guy.

People came to America to get away from the remnants of feudalism.

 

I find the fish comment especially funny. Of course the fish isn't always fresh, many Americans live over a THOUSAND MILES from the nearest ocean. That is over four times as far as the farthest people are from the ocean in Scandinavia (or pretty much anywhere in Europe for that matter).

In coastal areas you can buy fish right off the boat, but if anyone in the rest of the country wants fish, it will have to be frozen and shipped. Freezing and shipping also allows us to have a big variety of fish because we aren't limited to local supply. For instance, when I cook fish for dinner, my wife usually prefers tuna, I prefer salmon, thanks to freezing and shipping I can prepare both, so we both get what we want. Since those fish come from parts of the ocean thousands of miles apart, it is only through freezing that is possible. We'd be limited to freshwater fish where we live, if we didn't eat frozen.

 

Childish ad homs ignored. Also the above is a straw man since I never made any such claim, in fact have encouraged you to continue shoveling the slop down your gullet if you like.

I called it pink slime because LFTB and BLTB doesn't accurately describe a food product originally meant to be used in pet foods. The fact that by law it cannot even be labeled as beef, ought to be pretty telling but like I keep saying, eat what you want, I couldn't possibly care less. I on the other hand will continue to consume foods meant for human consumption.

 

The same stupid American exceptionalism ideas that feed nationalistic and protectionist policies.

'Murica can do no wrong, duh. Get out commie!

 

I mean the more agrarian society inherent in Feudalism, and the continuity. Yes, I know Americans history too by the way. There are good and bad things about a country starting out capitalist like America, on one hand the entrepreneurs had a clean slate to start with, on the other you've got what I described in my last post.

 

Merely reacting to YOUR statement "I don't want government telling anyone what to eat".....talk about childish rhetoric.

On the contrary, finely textured beef is an exact accurate description of this food product, "pink slime" is a juvenile, inaccurate main stream media parroted description. It is called BEEF....finely textured BEEF...apparently some of you have problems understanding basic facts but defer your thinking to what the media shoves down your throat. FTB IS meant for human consumption otherwise the USDA would not approve it. If you 'couldn't possibly care less' what others eat then way get your panties in a knot in the first place?

It is amazing the ignorance some of you display as you suck up main stream media slime.

"Recent media interest in lean finely textured beef (LFTB) has caused some confusion among consumers. LFTB is simply beef that has been separated from the fat in beef trimmings. Trimmings are chunks of meat that result when large carcasses are broken down into steaks, roasts and other cuts. In the past, these trimmings were wasted because a surgeon’s skill was required to separate the lean from fat and create a product that consumers would enjoy. But 20 years ago, a new technology became available that has helped us prevent the waste of wholesome, lean beef. We’re proud that today we can derive more beef from a beef animal with less waste. We hope that after viewing the following resources, you will feel as confident in the process as we do."

Here, educate yourself and maybe you won't constantly display your self-induced ignorance on this subject.

http://meatsafety.org/ht/d/sp/i/76540/pid/76540

 

Slow down ace, think it through. I don't want the government telling anyone what they can and can't eat (something you'd already know if you'd read the thread and the discussion BHK and I had about milk and cheese).

Which makes this statement:

Silly, at best.

If it looks like slime, smells like slime and feels like slime. It's slime, guess you've never had any fresh beef, shame, it's good stuff.

It does not fall within the classifications specification of Sec. 319.15 of the FDA code for what can be legally labeled as either beef, ground beef or even hamburger as it is not rendered at low temperatures.

http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/RetailFoodProtection/FoodCode/FoodCode2001/ucm092709.htm

Sorry bro, I'm right, you're wrong and I've got the facts to back it up. That disgusting high temp processed sludge can't even be labeled as beef. Once again, if that's what you want to ingest, go nuts. I'm just not going to be shoveling it down or pretending it's anything other than processed pet food.

I'm not upset, you're welcome to continue feeding at the trough, that's your choice, but I'm not for one second going to sit here and pretend that it's nothing other than Grade F slop that I wouldn't even feed to my dog.

 

You must own stock in pink slime is all I can figure. I worked for many years as a maintenance technician for food processing equipment in supermarkets and food processing facilities. People have no idea what their food consists of and if they did, I assure you, most wouldn't eat it. This pink slime that you are so supportive of, consists of anything that's left over after they strip every other possible piece of anything edible from the carcass. Imagine cleaning and gutting your fish that you catch, and eating the guts, scales and head, tail, fins, etc. That's the same thing you're eating in respect to beef. If you were to eat only beef testicles, it would be much higher in what people normally think of as beef than pink slime by a long shot. Everything that they used to throw away, you now pay for at the same rate per pound that you do for actual (traditional) ground beef. 6 bucks a pound for tumors, scar tissue, ligaments, fecal intestines, eyeballs, azzhole....all of it. Stuff they don't even feed dogs anymore. Used to be they ship that stuff out to make different "additives" (meat by products) to animal feed. Now....you get to pay 6 bucks a pound for it to enjoy for your consumption. I won't even discuss the many other things that go on in meat rooms across the US, but your defense of pink slime and pretending that it's just great, or even that it does actually has anything to do with beef is a bit misrepresented. It's worse than garbage. However if you enjoy eating the tumors and other miscellaneous types of internal and external "things"...hey...have at it, but don't tell people it's beef.....IT ISN'T.

 

Hey, it is all that infrastructure that everyone says we need more of that allowed people to rely on food from anywhere but home.