This is the inside of a meat processing plant.
A plant that injects beef with ammonia to kill bacteria.
Repeat, they are INJECTING BEEF WITH AMMONIA TO KILL BACTERIA.
And even after all of that, the beef that’s INJECTED WITH AMMONIA TO KILL BACTERIA still has tested positive for E. coli and other fun things that will make you squirm and vomit and possibly die. From the New York Times:
With the U.S.D.A.’s stamp of approval, the company’s processed beef has become a mainstay in America’s hamburgers. McDonald’s, Burger King and other fast-food giants use it as a component in ground beef, as do grocery chains. The federal school lunch program used an estimated 5.5 million pounds of the processed beef last year alone.
But government and industry records obtained by The New York Times show that in testing for the school lunch program, E. coli and salmonella pathogens have been found dozens of times in Beef Products meat, challenging claims by the company and the U.S.D.A. about the effectiveness of the treatment. Since 2005, E. coli has been found 3 times and salmonella 48 times, including back-to-back incidents in August in which two 27,000-pound batches were found to be contaminated. The meat was caught before reaching lunch-rooms trays.
Okay, I’ve said this before, and have done my best to stick to this, but this article further steels my resolve to not eat anything but organically-grown and processed meat. For fucking real. I don’t want anything in my body that resembles Pine-Sol anymore.
(Photo by Carol Guzy / the Washington Post; article via the New York Times)
This stuff is so scary, especially when you consider that organically grown, humanely treated beef has an incredibly low rate of e coli (and other) contamination. Rather than fix the system, they just pile on the chemicals. No wonder everyone has cancer!
Nasty.
And there’s ample proof that even with the antibiotic filled cows that letting them outside to graze in GRASS for a week before slaughter KILLS e coli!
