Have you had your requisite dose of Ammonia today? Well, did you have 
sausages for breakfast at a fast food place? For lunch, did you have fast food hamburger or a deli sandwich filled with sliced lunch meat or fabricated roast beef? Or, did you decide instead to grab a taco or a slice or two of pepperoni pizza? Believe it or not, all of these meats probably contain:
PINK SLIME!!!
Welcome to America and the latest food industry concoction designed to make Beef Products, Inc. (BPI) a whopping $440 million bucks a year! These people are the ones who figured out what to do with all those fatty sweepings from the slaughterhouse floors that normally got thrown away or put in pet food. These sweepings are packed full of dangerous pathogens, like E. coli 0157 and antibiotic-resistant salmonella. BPI came up with the idea to soak the sweepings in ammonia to kill these pathogens and sell them to food manufacturers as “filler.”
The USDA OK’d this as long as just 15% of the meat is composed of Pink Slime. The USDA also decided that Ammonia doesn’t have to be included in the “list of ingredients” because it is supposedly used up in the manufacturing. (It just disappears, evaporates into nothingness. If you believe that, I’ve got some swamp land in Florida I’d like you to look at).
Unfortunately, this means that ALL of us have probably eaten pink slime at one time or another. BPI sells to the federal school lunch program, which means that nearly every child in America has eaten their share of it. Frozen dinner entrees probably contain it, as do pre-packaged meat balls and beef sticks.
How do you avoid it? Change your eating habits. Stop eating at fast food establishments unless the meat is labeled 100% of whatever it is supposed to be. Don’t buy ground meat from just any place. Ask your grocer to grind up a roast for you. I shop at Whole Foods Market, where (Thank God!) most of their food is what you think it is.
It took Jamie Oliver to uncover this nasty stuff. What else is hidden from the American consumer? No wonder so many people have health problems of all sorts today. People continue to trust the Food Industry and their government to protect them. It is obvious that neither on has our best interests at heart. Another sad awakening!
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