Karsceal Turner – I Got Next
It is truly becoming a nightmare to determine what is in that Quarter Pounder with Cheese, that two-piece meal with sides or that Chinese take-out.
It seems every year, the FDA is coming out with all sorts of updated lists of what isn’t good to eat. What was good one year isn’t always good for the future. Unfortunately, much of Americans’ diets still revolve around fast food.
Is it real ground beef?
A recent post on the Social Network sparked this informational head’s up. McDonald’s was accused of serving up human meat according to numerous sites, (go and see for yourself). The image accompanying the small blog is of a pink slime which looks sort of like ice cream…totally gross looking. I long ago banned McDonald’s from my pallet, but if I hadn’t, that photo and accompanying story may have done the trick, or not. I didn’t take it on it’s merits, I looked further, and looked for similarities across the board and began to wonder, what the hell else is in the food at these joints?
It’s been more than a year since the industry was “pink-slimed,” a term coined by ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer and British food blogger Jamie Oliver. The term, of course, was the sensational characterization of lean finely textured beef (LFTB). LFTB is a 100% beef product produced by a process developed by Beef Products Inc. (BPI) of Dakota Dunes, SD, which separates fat from lean in beef trim. Until the sensational ABC News expose, LFTB was commonly used as an ingredient in school lunch programs and fast-food burgers. The fact is that billions of pounds of the product have been produced and consumed over the years without any reported problems. The nasty connotation in consumers’ minds that beef is tainted with chemicals persists.
There is a difference between hysteria surrounding what’s in that burger and scientific fact. As with most food scandals, they go on for years unnoticed before the beans are spilled.
Despite the overall findings that consumers have absolutely no idea what they are eating – including human remnants – in 85% of the products.
South Africa’s Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries deputy director-general downplayed it by asserting that we are not becoming unwitting cannibals:
“It is possible that (if tested) we could find traces of human DNA in meat. However, even if we do find human DNA, it does not mean we are eating human flesh,” the source said.
As reassuring as this is, evidently the eliminating of healthy microorganisms in the processing of foods is what the FDA is supposed to be protecting us from. However, since there is an acceptable standard of nasty foreign entities during meat processing, we may have been exposed to cannibalism for decades now. Don’t even get me started about Chinese take-out, which I have banned from my palette.
As good as the Pig’s been to us?
Cat, Dog, and Rat, is what scriptures, and the Qur’an tells us. And still, you can’t get enough of those pork chops, pork ribs, and pork roast.
Never mind the holidays when you get your fill of chitterlings and haw maws with the full understanding of the fact this is rooted in Black people’s culture. It was what the master left for his slaves. Even after being freed, it is still delicious with tabasco, along with that fried chicken and other rich foods which have already been proven to kill people but go right on being delicious.
I know you looove that bird!
It was allegedly thought that the KKK tainted Church’s Chickens chicken recipe with an ingredient that would render all Black men sterile.
I’m less concerned with the urban myth as I am with what the hell is injected into Church’s chicken at hatcheries and the processing plants to make those portions so unbelievably big.
Studies have suggested that the use of genetically modified varieties is in use in our foods especially that bird.
About 90% of the planted area of soybeans in the US are genetically modified varieties. Soy protein concentrate is used in meat and poultry products to increase water and fat retention and to improve nutritional values. This would expand to include all your favorite chicken joints including KFC, Church’s and Popeye’s. BTW, when Church’s was taken over by Popeye’s Famous Fried Chicken and Biscuits in 1989, the unfounded conspiracy theories about sterility waned.
Is Chinese food actually Cat and Dog?
It‘s entirely possible, but not likely here in the United States.
Eating dog meat is a long-standing culinary tradition not just in China, but also Korea. Cat meat can be found on the menu in China, Vietnam and even parts of South America. A number of cultures and various religions consider the consumption of cat meat to be taboo for humane reasons, including here in the United States. It is estimated that around 4 million cats are eaten in China each year, and that the number is rising.
There are about ten grades of chicken from free range organically fed, to reconstituted pressed chicken pieces “with extra water for juiciness,” from anywhere that is cheap, (usually Brazil). This may account for some of that great stuff folks love to inhale at the mall. From my research, however, to serve cats is too expensive to even bother with.
The cheaper stuff has no real flavor and a funny texture. It is also often thin and curled up. You love that extra teriyaki sauce don’t you? I know you do. I will say this, a business simply has too much to lose by serving an animal patrons consider as pets. Some cultures call us barbarians for eating chicken, which by the way, is one of if not the nastiest animal, but still delicious.
Still, before you turn your nose up, let us keep some sort of perspective here. Remember the look on your face when you read about people eating cat and dogs in China? This is exactly how they feel when we take a bite of that chicken from Popeye’s and that sirloin steak from Publix. I’m just saying…
It’s a startling fact that we don’t know much about what our food comes into contact with. And we have scientists and regulatory agencies continually asserting how safe our food supply is.
Are you unsettled at the prospect of ingesting someone else’s particles and blood? Do you wonder what else will be found when the next scientific investigation is conducted here in the USA? Perhaps you should be.
Although I decided to do some research on some favorite foods you’re likely eating with the full understanding that many readers will turn a blind eye to these words in print.
As a one-time connoisseur of mountain oysters, squirrel, deer, raccoon, goat, alligator, shark and rabbit, I will simply remind the reader, you are what you eat, whether it is horse, cat, dog, or remnants of human beings.
In any case pay a little bit more attention and continue your own research into what you eat and how contaminated it could be, before you fry it up.
