jmcquown said:murray said:given the mad cow disease scare announced yesterday after finding a sick cow that had been
slaughtered and processed in Washington State, I would see if you could find a turkey!!!!
Just read it in the NY Times...Had a similar scare in Canada.. brought the prices down for a
short time..
Don't be an alarmist. They found 10,000 lbs. of GROUND BEEF on Wednesday which might be infected.
Chains like McDonald's and Wendy's are pulling ground beef they bought. As far as I can tell, no
one is pulling roasts or steaks. Must have been some tough old cows 🙂
"Mechanically separated".
After they cut the primal cuts off a carcass, they are left with big bones, including spine.
They put the big bones in a press, and press.
In many forms of the process, the spine is crushed, expressing the spinal culumn.
This is mixed with the "meat" being scraped off the other bones by their other bones, and comes out
of the bottom of the press.
There's your problem.
There are "advanced meat recovery" (AMR) methods which are supposed not to cause the spinal column
to become part of the produced meat product. In fact, not *permitted* to cause that to happen.
But, clearly, wherever Mickey-D's is getting its mechanically separated meat products, they aren't
inspecting all of it.
--Blair "10,000 usenet posts were recalled for being contaminated
with ridiculous presumptions and large-scale pretensions."