enhanced meat?

**sinopa27** · 07-26-2011, 05:57 AM

what do you think about this article? The sodium injected in the meat is one thing but to make it weigh more is just wrong!!

USDA: Make It More Obvious When Meat is "Enhanced" | TakePart - Inspiration to Action

**ladykemma2** · 07-26-2011, 07:57 AM

it's why i don't buy meat at walmart

**sinopa27** · 07-26-2011, 08:06 AM

I am sure this isn't just at walmart. I agree with you about not buying meat at walmart. I bet walmart would expect the meat to be enhanced with all kinds of things. I bet they would expect it!

**nuisance26** · 07-26-2011, 08:14 AM

~I don't buy meat with added solutions with the exception of the free Butterball turkey we get at Thanksgiving.
I won't buy any meat labeled with "solution added". I think it makes the meats flavor and texture off.

~

**xtena** · 07-26-2011, 08:31 AM

'They' have been doing it to chicken for years. It's why I don't buy Tyson. Yikes.I had no idea most pork was enhanced. I almost never buy pork, DD and I aren't huge meat eaters but I need to point that out to my mother; more sodium is the last thing my Dad needs in his diet.

**sinopa27** · 07-26-2011, 08:57 AM

I wonder what else they are enhancing the meat in it!

**low-1** · 07-26-2011, 09:06 AM

That's why our beef and pork come from very small family run farms (max 10 animals). I still need to find a good source for chickens, but once fall runs around, we get most of our "poultry" from the forest that surrounds us, as spruce and ruffed grouse. And I'm pretty sure the moose and caribou I harvest aren't "enhanced" in any way either!

**Spirit Deer** · 07-26-2011, 12:44 PM

I hate this practice. It's one more reason I don't add salt when recipes call for it.

I'm skeptical a new law about labeling would do any good. There are laws requiring our food to be labeled as to country of origin, too. Anyone else tried to figure out where your food is coming from lately? That law is often not enforced at all, or else they get around it by stating something like "distributed by..." which tells me nothing about where the food originated.

Which is my #1 reason for buying more fresh foods and trying harder to grow my own. When a manufacturer doesn't want to state where their food came from, that makes me wonder what they're trying to hide.

Some foods are exempt from having to carry certain labels, too. Like the meats wrapped by the stores themselves don't have to have nutrition labels on them. So there'll probably be a loophole for a new law, too.

Some days it sucks being a skeptic, but I'm of the opinion the food producers are eventually going to have to answer for what they're doing the way the tobacco companies have.

**brennasmom** · 07-26-2011, 03:40 PM

Eeeewww.

We just bought 1/4 of a local cow for this reason (and others)

**frugalfranny** · 07-26-2011, 11:52 PM

Originally Posted by xtena

'They' have been doing it to chicken for years. It's why I don't buy Tyson.

Me too! I buy the 'local' northwest grown.......

Also won't buy 'farm raised' fish/seafood.........

**sinopa27** · 07-27-2011, 04:01 AM

i just don't understand why these meat companies cant be more ethical. I mean.....don't they eat this crappy meat too?? Why are these companies allowed to be so deceitful!!
I see a sign every now and then that tells of the country of origin. I just recently learned that we, the US, is getting pigs/pork imported in from Haiti!! That is like the poorest country in the world and we are getting pork from them???? And only 2% of all imported food gets inspected a year!
I am sure there are a lot of things in the meat and food period that are suspicious!

**The Muse** · 07-27-2011, 08:59 AM

I started being a vegetarian for ethical reasons, but the more I read about stuff like this, growth hormones, antibiotics, etc., the more I see it as a health issue. Not the commercially grown produce is much better, but somehow it freaks me out less than meat.

**Nishu** · 07-27-2011, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by frugalfranny

Me too! I buy the 'local' northwest grown.......

Also won't buy 'farm raised' fish/seafood.........

What's wrong with the farm raised stuff?

Btw there's a really good book called 'not on the label' that talks about all the ways our food is altered without us knowing because it's not indicated on the packaging. I think it was specifically about the UK.