That does not change the fact that food standards were written to allow manufacturers to claim their meat to be "100% beef" if it contained less than 15% pink slime. That's not 100%, that's 85% at best, the rest being animal parts that were unfit for human consumption until they were "washed" with ammonia.

When people found out, they were rightly horrified. McDonald's and many other then stopped using it. The issue not being so much that they were using it, although that's pretty bad, it's that the meat lobby had worked it to the point that 85% = 100% for labeling of products. The bottom line being that - if it's processed - you don't know what's in it.

Edited by Ray in Houston (09 Oct 2017 4.46pm)

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

The moral of the story is surely not to eat cheap crap as any fool should realise that beef burgers costing a few pence won't contain prime cuts of beef and that much of the tinned and other processed meats are mechanically recovered.

I buy my mince meat for burgers, chilli and bolognaise etc from the local farm shop and invariably I watch him mincing the meat for me so can see what it came from

Food deserts (as opposed to desserts) probably (hopefully) aren't an issue in the UK but here, in the most powerful and rich country the world has ever seen, food deserts abound. This means that the public has little little or no access to fresh produce, so people can eat nothing but cheap, heavily processed crap.

Yes, people make bad food choices. But sometimes those choices are made because they are blinded with bad information from those whose job it is to do the opposite; sometimes because the cost of fresh food is prohibitive; and sometimes because there is nothing but bad choices.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.