Mystery Meat Macrophotography: An Up-Close Look Processed Meat

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from AlterNet's PEEK:



Mystery Meat Macrophotography: An Up-Close Look Processed Meat

Posted by Heather Gehlert, AlterNet at 2:00 PM on April 17, 2008.

Find out what's lurking inside salami, sausage and hot dogs.



"Mystery meat" gets its name for good reason. To get a sickeningly close look at the makeup of processed meats, check out this photo tour by Mike Adams. All products were purchased from Wal-Mart, and all images are untouched (except to correct brightness and contrast). A list of ingredients accompanies each "food" item. Yum!

The photo tour is at: http://www.naturalnews.com/PhotoTour_Mystery_Meat_1.html

[Divernan]

1. I have not eaten processed meats in decades and never fed it to my kids.

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2. I viewed the photo tour and just about threw up.....

.... I'm seriously considering vegetarianism.

[Systematic Chaos]

3. Oh my gawd, DO IT!

Go to vegweb.com and start perusing the recipes.

And, to help you along, let me share with you the thought of some yummy, rancid, frozen burritos I got from Albertson's a few months back. That was my last straw.

:puke:

[marmar]

5. Thanks for the vegweb link.....

My sterotype of vegetarian cuisine was salads, tofu and beans, but I've been going to some of the vegetarian restaurants in Ann Arbor lately with my militant vegetarian friends, and some of the menu items are quite creative and very tasty.

[Critters2]

6. I like salads, tofu and beans.

Try General Tso's tofu.

[Systematic Chaos]

9. I plan to, very soon.

My wife and I were both serious gluttons with the General Tso's chicken when we went to the Chinese buffets.

Best part is the tofu version won't have bits of nasty gristle in it. :P

[Warpy]

17. The only time I ever ate the stuff is at a summer camp

I was the smallest kid and at the end of the table and nothing was left on the platter but olive loaf and pickle loaf and maybe a couple of slices of mortadella. I skipped the latter and tried to choke down the former with every condiment known to summer camp kids. I failed miserably and ended up eating bread and water a lot.

Now I know why.

[MercutioATC]

4. Yes, but it's yummy.

...and, after you swallow, it all looks the same anyway.

[Wizard777]

7. If you get too close it become myopicphotography.

[Speck Tater]

8. Yummy! Made me hungry!

I have to wonder how much different those pictures look than pictures of, say, fresh free-range chicken meat. I'll bet ANY piece of meat looks that gross, or worse, close up. It's all in what we are used to looking at and what we are not used to seeing.

[uppityperson]

11. I'd like to see something like a banana, or a yogurt pop.

[TheMightyFavog]

10. This is why I switched to Kosher franks.

In order to pass rabbinical muster, Factories that make Kosher hot dogs have to be absolutely spotless. Plus, they only use certain parts of the cow.

Besides, kosher Franks taste better, espeacilly with mustard, relish, sport pepers, a little celery sat. :9

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12. Yup. I always liked the Hebrew National brand hot dogs....

.... They definitely tasted better and less "parts is parts"-ish.

[Critters2]

14. Maybe I'm just picky, but this doesn't look spotless to me.

The world's largest kosher slaughterhouse, Agriprocessors of Postville, IA:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=O-ascm17R9A

[bicentennial_baby]

13. It would be more interesting to see this done on higher quality meats,

instead of shite like Oscar Mayer and Jimmy Dean. By higher quality, I mean the actual artisanal products from places like Italy, or artisanal producers here in the U.S.

Just my .02

[asthmaticeog]

15. That guy's a fucking idiot.

Glibly making fun of beef hearts and nitrites. Um, organ meats have been used and served through all of history until just recently, when we apparently became too squeamish to eat all of our food. And nitrite salts are added to cured meats both to preserve them (the entire fucking point of curing meat) to prevent bacteria from growing in them and killing you. That's what gives ham its pink color, too, I notice the smartass/dumbass had no closeups of ham. Harder target for cheap ridicule, I guess. But he sure is doing a valuable service - pointing out that mass-produced factory-processed food sucks. Genius. Thanks, dude, I never would have known that supermarket charcuterie was trash if you hadn't bought the fancy camera. :eyes:

[tridim]

16. Actually that looks cleaner than I expected.

I never eat lunch meat, but I do eat the occasional sausage. Mmmmmm mmmm good!