Yes I said Ammonia in your hamburger! In an effort to stave off horrible food borne illnesses that left this 22 year old woman paralyzed in 2007, ground beef producers pour ammonia into hamburgers to kill bacteria. The American “standard” foods, hamburgers and hot dogs, are some of the most hurtful foods in existence. Yet, mothers still think nothing of feeding them to their daughters.
ground beef and hot dogs are the most hurtful
If your appetite rules or you simply don’t believe meat is dangerous, the least you can do for yourself and your family is avoid ground meat products. Ground beef is not chunks of meat, because that would be far too expensive. Ground chuck is the gathered up leavings from other slaughter houses. Imagine it… the stuff other slaughter houses can’t use because its gross and covered in feces, Cargill rounds up and turns into “Premium Black Angus patties.”
If people won’t eat it… sell it to fast food chains and have the government force it on our children:
Cargill’s final source was a supplier that turns fatty trimmings into what it calls “fine lean textured beef.” The company, Beef Products Inc., said it bought meat that averages between 50 percent and 70 percent fat, including “any small pieces of fat derived from the normal breakdown of the beef carcass.” It warms the trimmings, removes the fat in a centrifuge and treats the remaining product with ammonia to kill E. coli. With seven million pounds produced each week, the company’s product is widely used in hamburger meat sold by grocers and fast-food restaurants and served in the federal school lunch program.
Cargill’s slogan for selling this ground up soup: “nobody adds more value to ground beef than Cargill.” Funny that they can refer to ammonia and e-coli as “value.” My extended family probably think I’m crazy for being vegan, and bringing up food around committed meat eaters is always a difficult subject, but I’m going to make an effort to get them to avoid ground chuck.
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David // January 21st 2010
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Sage // June 27th 2010
I’d rather have trace amounts of ammonia (something that’s already in my body and in yours right now, in trace amounts) than E. Coli.
This, once again, is a bit of exaggeration. They’re not soaking patties in vats of ammonia overnight and serving them with to kids with Windex-flavored gravy.
I suppose you only eat the purist plants with absolutely no chemicals or pesticides? Most of the chemicals we use are derived from plants and the plants either make them or get them from the ground. Apple seeds, cherry pits and the pits of peaches and apricots all contain compounds than turn into Hydrogen Cyanide when metabolized. Potato plants contain poisonous Glycoalkaloids. I could go on forever, but there’s no point. About as many people die from eating potatoes and apples as those who die from eating ammonia-laiden beef (that is to say, very few).
Greg // June 27th 2010
Cows in our system of modern farming spend the last few months of their lives standing leg deep in their own feces. When they are slaughtered, due to the high volume slaughter rate, much of that feces, as well as the feces from their digestive tract, ends up in your burger. So, you end up eating both E. Coli and the ammonia they mix with it. There is very haphazard testing conducted by the USDA and little product tracking. Sadly the chemicals in ground beef is only one aspect of this hurtful product. The evidence suggesting a link between red meat consumption and heart attacks and cancer is very compelling.
There are many plants that are poisonous and not safe to eat. Plants are miraculous in their ability to survive. Yes, potato plants are poisonous. Yes, tomato plants are poisonous. No the fruits of both aren’t going to kill you. As for the seeds of apples, yes don’t eat those. The apple is good for you, but the seeds are not. Fortunately, the seeds of apples are bitter and disgusting so it’s almost impossible to mistake them for food. The death rate from heart disease, which has been linked to heavy red meat consumption, is the leading cause of death in this country. The death rate from apple poisoning? That’s a good one.
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