"Meat Glue" - The Meat Industry's Dirty Secret

wow misleading consumers what a surprise

The health risks are of course most important but they are also defrauding the consumer - charging for a premium grade meat and providing lower grade -- ah the morals of private enterprise -- we can go on about the problems in government and unions but this is one one bit of evidence why we cannot trust our lives to private enterprise alone

From the sound of it, there really isn't anything bad about using an enzyme to glue meat together other than if you under cook it. There isn't anything directly endangering health from the enzyme itself... unless someone has some additional info on it?

Wait this is from Today Tonight........pretty informational but from my memory these people exaggerate a lot of stuff just to get ratings......although this is true anyway

The real issue here is not necessarily the safety of the meat glue itself. Instead what should really worry us is the fact that these scraps of meat, glued together, are being sold to restaurants and consumers as solid pieces of meat. If you’re at a restaurant and order a steak medium-rare or rare, and it happens to be a glued together steak, you’re now potentially exposing yourself to all of the microbial contamination that might not be thoroughly cooked. The advantage of a real steak, and the reason you can order it medium-rare, is that the potential contamination is all seared off while cooking. The inside, even though it may not be fully cooked, has never been touched by a potentially contaminated butcher’s knife. The same is not true of a meat glue steak.

Don’t kid yourself, the scraps would still get used. The trick here is that the meat wholesaler can fetch a higher price by gluing them together, but risks the consumer’s health in the process.

& they had the balls to say that "Upton Sinclair was a muckraker" lol

from now on, no more round cuts of meat for me.

This, among other reasons, is why most of the meat I eat is from my family's farm.

OK, anyone who didnt already see this is a fool. They have been selling you deli meats for years in these near perfect cylindrical blocks, with muscle grain patterns that are condradictory. This article is really nothing new if you have been looking at what you put in your mouth.

Curious that this story is ranked in the top ten but not visible on the news page....hmmm current censorship?

shocking and disgusting. Everybody needs to know about this. Buy from local butchers that cut you meat off the cow right in front of you.

And they add coloring to all meat too make it look red.

I haven't eaten any meat since 1976. Things certainly have changed.......

Well, hell. I'm gonna eat as much of this as I can get my hands on.

That way, I'll live forever since I'll be "Glued" together.

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More reasons for going Vegan

This makes sense, a few years ago I was buying some meals that were made by Betty Crocker, they were outstanding, I would keep 10 or 12 meals in the cupboard. Then one day Betty Crocker changed the meat in the meals to what I would call scrap. I called them and complained about the scrap meat and I quit eating them. I gave 10 meals to a food bank after explaining why I wouldn't eat them. Now I will buy nothing with the name Betty Crocker on it. This story explains what was in those meals.

it's one thing to develop this method
fair enough

it's another to hide it
some kind of crime i reckon...

What's next...? Meat Margaritas'?

Pretty scary shit, just keep looking for meat processed in Mexico! With thousands of missing people, I wouldn't be surprised if they have become a meat glued steak!

weirdness weirdness weirdness . . .

Thank You for posting this article... A couple months ago my girlfriend was buying chicken breasts... I thought it was pretty good, but told her. This is chicken but it is not a chicken breast. I told her it was pieces of chicken poured into a chicken breast mold... I was right, if you look at the label on the bag it even says so... It's just not safe to buy any food products these days without fully reading the labels. I make it a point not to eat redmeat.

Oh boy MEAT GLUE for Me and You. Umm you can have mine I will stick with a steak.