'Glued' meat (video)

[trof]

Jeez, what next?
The latest in 'fake food'.
http://d.yimg.com/nl/australia/site/player.swf?vid=24472661&repeat=0&browseCarouselUI=hide

:eyes:

[Courtesy Flush]

1. Never heard of that. Thanks. nt

[fasttense]

2. Holy crap, I had no idea. No wonder the cheap little grocery store down the road can sell

good cuts of meat so cheaply. And, no wonder they are making $2 million a day.

Just another scam to get you eating shit while thinking it's food. Combine this with gassing meats, injecting meat with water and combining ground scraps with ammonia and you get some serious illnesses.

But corporations are making money let's give them more subsidies.

[spanone]

11. and, let's do away with any 'job killing regulations' ..'business will regulate themselves'..per GOP

[rosesaylavee]

3. Eeeewwww.

I have heard of water adding to meat ... but this is disgusting.

[nc4bo]

4. Ugh. Poisoned meat, poisoned vegetables, poisoned fruit.....

:puke:

[BanzaiBonnie]

5. Jaime Oliver highlighted this abhorent practice in one of his shows

It's disgusting, dangerous and an intentional deception.

[otohara]

6. Chicken Nuggets

glued!

[applegrove]

9. I was going to say that!

[hunter]

7. Transglutaminase

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transglutaminase

"It is produced by Streptoverticillium mobaraense fermentation in commercial quantities or extracted from animal blood..."

[Arkansas Granny]

8. According to this info, any meat that is labeled as "formed" or "reformed"

can be assumed to contain meat glue even though it is not specifically listed in the ingredients.

Because muscle fibers treated with TG enzyme will not be aligned as
they would be naturally, the Agency does not agree that TG enzyme does
not affect the essential character of a product. However, the Agency
does agree that, because the primary difference between a cut of meat
formed with TG enzyme and an untreated cut is the shape of the product,
special labeling to alert the consumer to the presence of the TG enzyme
in the product, such as ``beef tenderloin formed with water and
transglutaminase enzyme,'' is not necessary. Therefore, in this direct
final rule, the Agency is requiring that products that are fabricated
using TG enzyme bear the term ``formed'' or ``reformed'' in conjunction
with product name. The words ``formed'' and ``reformed'' are
appropriate terms to identify these products because these terms reveal
the material fact that multiple pieces of meat have been formed to look
like a solid piece of meat. Otherwise, consumers could be misled. The
product must also declare the presence of TG enzyme in the list of
ingredients on the product's label, as required by 9 CFR 317.2(f)(1)
and 381.118(a)(1).

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/oppde/rdad/FRPubs/01-016DF.htm

[Renew Deal]

10. Wow, I didn't know that.

:puke:

[Exilednight]

12. That's what they were counting on. n/t

[HopeHoops]

13. Damn I'm glad I've been vegetarian for over 20 years - wife and kids are too.