Question about pink slime
Does this process ( the demo with the cow, ammonia, and ground beef) apply only to beef? I eat a lot of ground turkey and am wondering if chemicals and misc. turkey parts are used in that too.
It would depend on where you source your turkey, I'd be willing to bet there is a similar process for turkey, although like beef, it's likely only present in the budget end of the market.
If you purchase your meat from a butcher's they are generally against using this wastage in their meats out of pride for their produce, and it will be sold off as pigswill.
Yeah, it depends on where you get your meat from. Generally speaking if it has a gone through a meat packaging plant- it's been through the ammonia process. The one thing he left out is while in the meat packaging plant they throw all sorts of meat into the process, like horse, sick animals, things not deemed fit for human consumption. Reason: the primary purchasers of processed meat are pet food manufacturers and well, USDA doesn't really care what you feed your dog or cat.
They also add fillers (usually gmo corn or soy as both are subsidized foods we gotta do somethin with em) to make it a USDA meat product which only needs to have a percentage of actual meat (around 70%), if you recall from the Taco Bell case. Now, based on where the majority of the meat came from is how it's labeled (beef, pork, and poultry). Then, gets shipped off to whomever purchased it for more processing.
Oh as a side note- downer cows (the cows too sick to walk off the trailer to the slaughterhouse) are once again allowed to be slaughtered for general consumption. Woo, I was worried that we weren't getting enough meat before they lifted that restriction. Now, people wonder why very few countries actually will take meat processed in the US, wonders never cease.