In article  , "Scott
Hedrick"
 wrote:

>
> "Deborah Terreson" 
wrote in message
> news:uL6dnfNtP_UB3bffRVn-gw{at}comcast.com...
>>did you know
>> that beef which is 'cold pasteurized' (which means it's irradiated with
>> gamma rays) is processed that way because it has shit on it? They use the
>> gamma rays to sterilize the bacteria in the fecal contamination from the
>> slaughterhouse. The shit is not actually *removed* from the beef, it's
> sent
>> to process again, where it is turned into ground beef patties sold to the
>> fast food industry and major chain supermarkets.
>
> Nor is it necessary, if it's cooked properly.

Who cooks meat properly? Most undercook, or it is incorrectly handled and
cross contamination occurs.

> That's why beef is "cold"
> pasteurized- because if heat were used, it would have to be enough to
> thoroughly cook it, which makes it hard to sell uncooked.

Most do not realize it is processed at all in such a fashion, and I notice
you have removed the part where I actually *EXPLAINED* that cold
pasteurization is gamma ray irradiation of meat and the WHY of it occurring.

If you cannot allow a full discourse of what is the reason behind the
process, instead of using a dismissive argument on a euphemistic term the
FOOD INDUSTRY ITSELF chose to hide behind, one has to wonder what your
reasons are.

I note you haven't said this processing isn't real or you haven't denied
that it is done so because of business money concerns.


> The mushrooms on your pizza are the same way- they might be rinsed, but
> there's still a lot of shit on them. Ten minutes at 550 degrees later, it's
> just recycled protein.

Meat is not rinsed.
>
> Only someone who thinks with their fecal matter would have a problem with
> eating beef.

Are you a Beef Industry Shill? You sound like one.
>
> As to a recall, that just shows the system is working. Imagine what would
> have happened if there hadn't been a recall.
>
> Not eating meat for health reasons is fine, and there's no problem passing
> that on to kids, under the proper supervision of a qualified physician and
> nutritionist. As to moral reasons, that's a load of crap. Cows exist to be
> eaten and to provide leather. Prove to me, with verifiable, scientific
> evidence, that nonexistence is better for the cow than even a crappy life.
> Otherwise, "animals are our friends, so we can't eat them"
is just so much
> crap.

Bubba, I'm looking at buying a half a black angus this year from a local
farm that raises about 12 head each year. Organic. No anti-biotics, hormones
or feed made from other animal parts. They eat grass on some of the finest
acreage in southern Maine. One buys the grain, and the farmer who's raising
the cow takes the other half as payment for his time, and effort for doing
it. And believe me, they don't get slaughtered in some corporate bottom-line
run, shit laden, meat-factory. The cost runs to less than $4.00 a lb, for
the whole half and that includes the good cuts. Can YOU get a filet mignon
for 4 bucks a pound? I'm hoping to shortly.

I love to eat dead cows, bison, chickens, ostriches, haddocks, lambs ..but
not deer - Blecch - no venison.

Where did I say don't eat beef?

I said be careful of the industrial beef, it's got shit on it.

Deb.


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