The 10 Dirtiest Foods You're Eating

[kickin chicken]

The dirt: Even a little ground chuck can make you upchuck. When USDA inspectors last tested hamburger meat, they looked at 563 sources nationwide and discovered Clostridium perfringens in 53 percent of the batches, Staphylococcus in 30 percent, and Listeria monocytogenes in 12 percent. Interestingly, the USDA found no trace of Escherichia coli 0157:H7, a.k.a. E. coli, one of the desperadoes of foodborne illness. Despite this finding, if slaughterhouse safeguards fail (and they sometimes do), E. coli could potentially pop up in your next patty.

At the supermarket: Choose ground cow that's been nuked. "Find a grocery store that sells irradiated ground beef," says Donald W. Schaffner, Ph.D., an extension specialist in food science at Rutgers University. The package will bear the words "treated by irradiation." Schaffner gives the safety of the treatment a glowing review: "The amount of induced radioactivity is 200,000 times smaller than the level of radioactivity naturally present in all foods."

At home: Add fresh oregano to your burgers and meat loaf. When researchers at Kansas State University mixed a variety of common household spices into ground beef to test their antibacterial properties, oregano tested as one of the best at wiping out E. coli. Use at least 1 tablespoon per pound of meat. Just as important, flatten your patties—thick burgers will char on the outside before the interior reaches the required 160°F.

The 10 Dirtiest Foods You're Eating: Ground Beef

 

[Road Dust]

I imagine there are fanatics out there who actually follow all those instructions. They should invent a handheld sterilizer that everyone could carry with them that they would automatically zap away all the germs and stuff. Basically, I just keep my kitchen clean, wash my lettuce and other veggies and fruit, and wash my hands when preparing food. That's good enough for me. If something needs more than that, I ain't eating it.

 

[blackw900]

I have a great idea.....

Let's just stop eating altogether.....There'll be no more obeisety, No more disease, No more grocery bills, No more worries about food bourne illness, No more pesky trucks blocking your way to the gym....And best of all, No more people to "Destroy the Planet!"

It'll be great!

Oh, And don't drink tap water either because that'll kill you too.

We should start today....You first.

 

[Mr. Q]

At the supermarket: Choose ground cow that's been nuked. "Find a grocery store that sells irradiated ground beef," says Donald W. Schaffner, Ph.D., an extension specialist in food science at Rutgers University. The package will bear the words "treated by irradiation." Schaffner gives the safety of the treatment a glowing review: "The amount of induced radioactivity is 200,000 times smaller than the level of radioactivity naturally present in all foods.

Ground beef......I remember watching a news segment not too long ago covering something called "pink slime" that's added to ground beef.

According to Wikipedia pink slime is:

"It consists of finely ground beef scraps, sinew, fat, and connective tissue which have been mechanically removed in a heated centrifuge at 100°F (38°C) from the fat into liquid fat and a protein paste. The recovered material is processed, heated, and treated with ammonia gas or citric acid to kill E. coli, salmonella, and other bacteria. It is finely ground, compressed into blocks and flash frozen for use as an additive to beef products."

Now that alone SHOULD discourage me from ever wanting to touch another hamburger, but In 'n Out and family barbecues in the summer smell so good....

Also, does anyone remember the plot from the movie Ghostbusters 2 and remember seeing that gross pink slime everywhere? This movie came to mind when that pink slime news segment was aired.

Anyone up for burgers later?

 

[blackw900]

Anyone up for burgers later?

Always....

I aint one of the sissified worrywarts that dwell on all of the horrors of what may or may not be in food.

 

[Mr. Q]

Always....

I aint one of the sissified worrywarts that dwell on all of the horrors of what may or may not be in food.

Even if the food contains cancer causing chemicals?

 

[Injun]

People keep getting sicker and sicker despite all these germ fighting measures. We don't even keep soap pumps you have to touch to get soap anymore because they have germs on them.

Did it ever occur to anyone that perhaps we need germs in order to build our immune systems so we don't get sick from .....germs?

 

[Injun]

Oh, and I'll take my burger medium well, please. Make it a nice, thick, juicy patty, too.

 

[blackw900]

Even if the food contains cancer causing chemicals?

According to who?

The FDA says that something may cause cancer one year and then a couple of years later they say it doesn't...Then they say something is good for you and then they say a little later that it isn't good for you.

I couldn't care less what they say because as far as I see it "they" don't have a clue what "they" are talking about 99% of the time!

I'll eat whatever I choose to and take my chances rather than sit around wringing my hands worrying about what some asshole in the government says about what may or may not kill me......Someday.


We're all gonna die from something eventually.....I'd prefer that it wasn't from a stroke brought on by worrying about what may or may not kill me.

 

[Tim]

Oh, and I'll take my burger medium well, please. Make it a nice, thick, juicy patty, too.

I'll take a juicy Patty too!:runningaround:

 

[Tim]

Just like the meat we eat, we all have an expiration date only we dont know just when it is, we just know its gonna happen.

 

[Duck]

Always....

I aint one of the sissified worrywarts that dwell on all of the horrors of what may or may not be in food.

I've seen enough stuff in packing plants to make just about anyone become a vegetabletarian.

I'm just too stubborn to do it myself though.

 

[Tim]

I've seen enough stuff in packing plants to make just about anyone become a vegetabletarian.

This is why its best to keep an "outta sight, outta mind" approach to most food processing. But then again what kinda bug spray are they using on the vege folks food?

 

[Injun]

Not a very good one. They're still around bugging those of us who believe there is a reason humans have canine teeth. Horses and cattle do not have them.

Ya know why vegetarians don't moan during sex?

They'd hate to admit a piece of meat made 'em happy.

 

[Road Dust]

This is why its best to keep an "outta sight, outta mind" approach to most food processing. But then again what kinda bug spray are they using on the vege folks food?

That's why it's best to grow your own

Not a very good one. They're still around bugging those of us who believe there is a reason humans have canine teeth. Horses and cattle do not have them.

Ya know why vegetarians don't moan during sex?

They'd hate to admit a piece of meat made 'em happy.

Now that's funny. Har har har.

Personally, I think the reason we have our teeth is so we can eat whatever we damn well choose.

 

[blackw900]

Ya know why vegetarians don't moan during sex?

They'd hate to admit a piece of meat made 'em happy.

Mmmmmmmmmm...........Meat.:hump:

 

[midwestbound]

When I was a kid, my mom dusted everything in the garden with sevin dust. That was back when the poison percentage rate was much higher than 5% that it is now. When harvest time came we would wash the white dust off and eat it. I am still alive as are my parents and they are up there in age...And their parents did the same thing and lived long dang lives. As for beef, pork, and chicken..we butchered them on the farm so it didn't go to a big slaughter house. But we still had flies flying around the carcass after dad strung it up on the bucket of the tractor to drain the blood. And after he chopped the heads off the chickens we would chase them around in the dirt catching the headless flopping bodies so we could dip them in boiling hot water. We have to face it, our immune systems are not as strong as earlier generations due to all the pollution, food additives, and medications.

 

[Injun]

Food additives and medications (antibiotics) are biggies. Pollution has been reduced to about half what it was when I was a kid, so I consider that a non issue. All this sterilizing of the environment, in my opinion, is the biggest culprit for our weakened immune systems. In order to build a resistance to germs, we need to be exposed to said germs. Killing them to keep from getting sick creates a viscious circle. We were healthier when we were not so sterile.

I ate dirt as a young girl. Most of us who played outside, made mud pies and had sand boxes did. We didn't have our moms chasing after us with Clorox wipes and sterilizing everything before we played with it. We washed dishes with the same rag for a week before changing to a clean one. We ran around barefoot. We shared ice cream cones.

We would spread germs around like parade candy and people didn't get sick. Because? Well, because we had a resistance built up to the germs and our immune systems were prepared for them.

 

[kickin chicken]

I do not buy prepackaged ground beef. When I need ground beef for hamburgers or a recipe such as lasagna I simply pick out a roast or cut of meat for the butcher to grind for me. London Broil, top round, sirloin and/or chuck steak all work well for this.
I don't have to wonder what is in the mystery meat. I know exactly what I'm getting because I hand picked the meat.
This way I control any added preservatives, fats, fillers or contaminates.
I also save money by buying the roast that is on sale, to be ground, in comparison to the cost per lb for processed hamburger.

 

[Road Dust]

I do not buy prepackaged ground beef. When I need ground beef for hamburgers or a recipe such as lasagna I simply pick out a roast or cut of meat for the butcher to grind for me. London Broil, top round, sirloin and/or chuck steak all work well for this.
I don't have to wonder what is in the mystery meat. I know exactly what I'm getting because I hand picked the meat.
This way I control any added preservatives, fats, fillers or contaminates.
I also save money by buying the roast that is on sale, to be ground, in comparison to the cost per lb for processed hamburger.

I have heard that if you can find local farmers to buy from, who raise their own meat, there is a world of difference in the quality and the taste. Also, it is likely that the animal will have been treated more humanely (for those who care about that sort of thing).