Not if they want those cushy lobbyist and board member jobs waiting for them when they leave the FDA. /s
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Not to mention the animals being specifically bred to have certain very unnatural characteristics (which is, you know, genetic modification), and the meat itself being treated with chemicals to make it look more appealing.
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Dumb and Dumber
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That is precisely why burgers can’t be eaten rare like steak, unless you are 1000% sure of the full process through which you obtained all the meat in the burger.
Steak is fine (provided it’s not mechanically tenderized. If it’s mechanically tenderized, cook the living daylights out of that thing) because the germs sit on the surface and are killed in the searing. Burger, though… Burger is a microbiological nightmare. Any burger – beef, chicken, ostrich, or even veggie – can be chock-full of pathogens, so cook them. No, veggie burgers are not exempt from this – there’s plenty of opportunities for contamination, from growing through harvest and processing.
Which isn’t to defend anything about this law (which is utterly ridiculous unless viewed as a protectionist stunt). Just a note about food-safety.
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How about stickering the packages with ‘feces-free meat substitute’, then?
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See above. That would be false advertising.
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Introducing the Mississippi Sandwich.
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You just reminded me about the meat industry’s beef* with Oprah Winfrey back in the '90s.
*(pun intended)
Somewhere in the basement I might still have a lapel sticker that says “Support Free Speech - I Support Oprah.” At the time I found it (in Austin) I had no idea what it was.
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The way I explain this is that only the surface, which has been exposed to the world, needs to be sterilized. In any ground product, the entire thing is surface. No part of it has been sealed away and can be assumed uncontaminated. But, as you note, that applies to anything we would call “burger.” (Or sausage, or whatever it is legally called in Mississippi)
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You want to know why BSE has not become a problem for the US meat industry?
Because if you find a positive result, you must report it. The best way to avoid a positive result? Don’t look for it.
The US does minimal to none BSE testing and the industry prefers the triple-S method for dealing with downed animals: Shoot, Shovel and Shut up. Cattlemen don’t report and nobody’s checking.
This is one advantage to the veg proponents: when meat kills it can be in utterly horrifying ways. And as @anon15383236 pointed out above, with modern manufacturing practices, a single infected cow could fe eaten by thousands of people.
Bon Appetit.
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Has nobody told you about the importance of owning the libs?
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Depends, how much melanin do you have? We need to know if you are a free speech advocate or a terrorist…
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I have no idea why anyone would buy a diamond, once you learn anything at all about the diamond industry.
Local stores here now offer a choice between ‘artisanal’ and ‘natural’ diamonds. Which is basically just a sly way of saying ‘you are suckers who make huge personal sacrifices for these little rocks’.
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Maybe if you took a very literal approach to eating the rich?
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Well, I’m playing on easy mode, so I have those melanin health pick-ups stacked in my inventory and chests and never use them.
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… egg plant …
I need to paste it here because I had my mind blown recently by it.
It would be misleading not calling it eggplant.
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The impossible burger isn’t bad. It’s not exactly the same, but it still hits the right cravings.
However, it’s always been a premium product everywhere I’ve been that offers it, and its mostly soy protein with some oil, some food starch, some flavoring, and its exclusive soy leghemoglobin that makes it pink and gives it a “bloody” sort of taste.
I’d say it’s cheap as chips, but chips are probably cheaper.
So paying extra for cheap protein, just because of patents and whatnot, in order for the privilege of patting myself on the back and thinking my choice of food actually matters in the grand scheme of things…
Yeah, that bothers me.
You want to help save the planet?
Make it available for cheaper than the cheapest institutional meat.
Otherwise it’s just a marketing angle.
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Wow! Those sensitive snowflakes sure are uptight about calling things by their “proper” name.
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As far as I know they aren’t yet profitable which is why it’s marketed as a premium product.
