Hanoi5 Posted June 14, 2011 Report Share Posted June 14, 2011 Reminds me of a civil engineer who told me "sewage is my bread and butter". Reminds me of an engineer's joke that women were designed by an architect, (tacky joke ahead) putting sewage and recreation so close... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onoway Posted June 17, 2011 Report Share Posted June 17, 2011 Even more important, we need to immediately acknowledge that O157 is not the only deadly STEC out there (non-O157 STEC has been found in up to six percent of a random sampling of meat, and not just hamburger), an acknowledgment that — of course — the meat industry is unwilling to make. And we need to declare those other STEC as “adulterants” and get them out of the food supply to the best of our ability. The two agencies that can act on this are USDA and FDA, and both are hamstrung by budget policy (the FDA needs more money for inspection; the House wants to give it less) and, of course, by the meat lobby and its allies. It was quite a shock to learn it is legal to use "meat glue" in the US and Canada and the story elsewhere is that now most of the countries in Europe have also decided to allow it.Supposedly in Canada at least, if it is used it has to be on the label of the meat (or fish, presumably) (I don't know what happened here; why the link doesn't show up as just a link... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrothgar Posted June 17, 2011 Report Share Posted June 17, 2011 I use meat glue all the time Just the other data, I glued some serranno ham onto a pice of spanish mackeral...(And it was tasty, god damn it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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