What Harmful Chemicals Are In The Meat You Eat?

It is very important to know what you are eating. Harmful chemicals can lead to illness & disease.

CR-Health-Inlinehero-chicken-salmonella-0219Many people may not realize it, but much of the meat we eat contains synthetic growth hormones and other chemicals that may be harmful to us. Why would cattle owners want to use growth hormones? It is all about money. Ranchers today want to produce more cattle in a shorter period.

Chlorine Baths

Why do U.S. poultry processors use chlorine? It “kills bacteria, controls slime and algae, increases product shelf life [and] eliminates costly hand-cleaning labor and materials” in addition to disinfecting “wash down” and “chilling” water. “Pinners” in the slaughter facility who remove the birds’ feathers by hand wash their hands with chlorinated water to “reduce odors and bacterial count” after which the birds are sprayed to “wash all foreign material from the carcass.” Meat is similarly disinfected with chlorine, says one industrial paper, especially because conveyer belts are “ideal breeding grounds for bacteria.”

Carbon Monoxide

According to the Food Safety and Inspection Service FSIS directive, carbon monoxide is used as a part of modified atmosphere packaging system introduced directly into the bulk or master container used for bulk transportation of fresh meat products. Meat products are subsequently repackaged in packages not containing a carbon monoxide modified atmosphere prior to retail sale.” Carbon monoxide is also used to “maintain wholesomeness” in packaging “fresh cuts of case-ready muscle meat and ground meat,” says the FSIS directive.

Ammonia

It has only been a few years since the nation’s stomach churned when it saw photos of “pink slime” oozing out of processing tubes and bound for U.S. dinner tables and the National School Lunch Program. Looking like human intestines, “lean, finely textured beef” (LFTB) was made from unwanted beef “trim” and treated with puffs of ammonia gas to stop the growth of E. coli. While the company making most of the nation’s LFTB, Beef Products Inc. (BPI) shuttered three plants and laid off hundreds of employees two years ago, it is since fighting back and has brought a lawsuit against ABC news.

Other “Safe and Suitable” Ingredients You Don’t Know You’re Eating

Unless you’re a chemist, you may not recognize some of the other ingredients in the FSIS directive, but that doesn’t mean you want to ingest them. Take “cetylpyridinium with propylene glycol for bacterial control.” While cetylpyridinium is a germ-killing compound found in mouthwashes, toothpastes and nasal sprays, in meat production it is combined with propylene glycol to “treat the surface of raw poultry carcasses or parts (skin-on or skinless).” Yum.

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