McDonald's Hamburgers, Yes it really is Pink Slime!

"Ammonia may be used by our suppliers as an aid to kill harmful bacteria. This process is approved by the USDA and helps to ensure safe, quality food."

McDonald's posted this on their very own website, to justify why it buys beef chips from Beef Producs Inc.

What are beef chips? Beef chips are the fatty slaughterhouse trimmings, that founder of Beef Products discovered a way to convert into usable lean beef. Mr. Roth and others in the industry had discovered that liquefying the fat and extracting the protein from the trimmings in a centrifuge resulted in a lean product that was desirable to hamburger-makers.

This mixture was previously unusable, because it was so full of e.coli and salmonella that until this process of washing it in ammonia it wasn't usable.

Now what do they do with this pseudo, fringe meat? Serve it to you. The meat eater. You feed it to your children, cause it's cheap. It is your right to do so, but maybe instead of setting your child up for failure it's time to start figuring out the source of all your food!

I started eating raw vegan, because I could no longer find safe food. I got tired of learning of all the way our meat supply has been compromised that it just wasn't worth the work anymore to find clean meat.

Yes it passes the USDA and FDA, but come on let's face it... Are there any other organizations as corrupt as these two? How could you possibly trust them with their rampant disregard for public health.

Don't even bother with the fact that factory farms are so inhumane in the treatment of animals. Even if you hate animals doesn't it bother you what passes for meat? The fact that you have to cook it to kill the bacteria that is on the meat from all the shit that comes with it? Your meat is literally covered in animal feces, because no process can get rid of it all.

Start doing research into your food. At all times. Don't put it in your mouth unless you know where it comes from. Even if you want to eat it, don't do it to your kids.

Please read the links below to learn more about the information in your article, then please move on to google and start searching for the food you eat, to find out where it comes from and how it's made.

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Sources:
New York Times: Safety of Beef Processing Method Is Questioned
Mcdonalds.com: McDonald's FAQ Concerning Ammonia
Beef Product Inc's Process to Convert left-over cow into something that can pass as food: Beef Products Process

It's not your fault you were ignorant, it's your fault if you don't do something about it.

While I support people who consume ethically raised animals, I can only assume the rest of the world is in full out Bliss Consumption Mode. Why else would anyone choose to put barely biological food in their system if they weren't completely ignorant of the entire process.

The factory farms do not care about quality. Think of a factory farm, regardless of the cleverness of their advertising or effectiveness of their packaging, as giant Fast Food Chains. The entire point of a factory farm is to get as much food out the door with just enough flavor to make it passable as food.

Not quality, quantity. Cheaper, faster. How else can you explain all the money spent in researching effective chemicals for making the process cheaper/faster, and virtually none on testing. As long as you don't drop dead, the FDA will pass anything a corporation tells them to.

Why? Because of the revolving door between the FDA and the major food corporations. Like the economic crises our country has faced due to the revolving door between Wall Street and The Economic Oversight of the country, the same crisis is happening in the food supplies of Canada and the United States.

Don't be afraid, get informed, and inform others. Though conscious decision making we can make real change happen. Do not feel guilty for your choices before learning this, the real question is what are you going to do with this knowledge?

Original Article:
Why Has the FDA Allowed a Drug Marked 'Not Safe for Use in Humans' to Be Fed to Livestock Right Before Slaughter?

How can you support PETA? Really...

PETA is almost Cult Like in their recruitment and their protesting. Using sex to get people interested in their cause and receive donations, supported by Celebrities and people around the world, who blindly follow an Organization regardless of any proof to the harm the Organization actually does. It is as if they are turning their members into sheeple and then releasing them into the world to do their bidding.

How can you support an organization that so blatantly does not practice what it preaches, fully capable of destroying property, or disrupting peoples lives, getting in your face and condemning all for eating meat, for not being vegan. They build their army of raving followers, who blindly go out and support the organization, while not fully understanding the message they are preaching.

It's easy to be a raving vegan, until you have children. I don't know of any parent on the planet that would let their children die from starvation, rather than feed them meat.

In some places it is far too expensive for most families to be able to afford to live vegan. This is a fact.

Would you condemn Eskimos for being Omnivores? Again of course not because it is ok to sometimes eat meat.

Also for the racism vs. specism arguement, would you, or any reasonable person save an animals life over a human's life? Would you ever let your child die to save an animal?

People eat meat. We are omnivores by nature. Just because you can do something doesn't mean everyone should. There are people who live out there entire lives never needing a computer, but I see you are perfectly happy using one. Technology causes a lot of destruction to the planet, mining the minerals and resources that go into using your computer.

Think of all of the animals that had to be displaced or out right killed for you to have access to the internet, yet you have somehow justified using one? Do you walk everywhere? Don't you know how destructive sprawl is to animals? Or roads? Do you live out in the woods in a home you made for yourself as to cause minimal impact to nature?

Of course not, you don't live your life by absolute example, you justify those actions that you take and by participating in life in a way that the effects on the animals is justified in your mind. So where is the line drawn? It's ok to use electricity and roads and technology that causes destruction to the earth and directly impacts animals, but god forbid any one any where ever eats meat? It's hypocritical to think that you draw the line for others.

Tolerance, and understand make real change. Not guilt. For the record I am raw food vegan, am anti-factory farm, but support hunters and people who ethically raise animals for food.

PETA does not teach tolerance, it is almost dogmatic in it's inability to possibly entertain any notion that they could be wrong.

Sources:
Newsweek: Even among animal lovers, killing unwanted pets is a divisive issue.
PETA’s Pet Killing Program Set a New Record in 2008