MegaCorp Fraud: Fast food hamburgers: what are we really eating?

[boutons_deux]

Americans consume about 5 billion hamburgers a year. It is presumed that most hamburgers are composed primarily of meat.

The purpose of this study is to assess the content of 8 fast food hamburger brands using histologic methods.

Eight different brands of hamburgers were evaluated for water content by weight and microscopically for recognizable tissue types.

Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) staining was used to evaluate for brain tissue.

Water content by weight ranged from 37.7% to 62.4% (mean, 49%).

Meat content in the hamburgers ranged from 2.1% to 14.8% (median, 12.1%).

The cost per gram of hamburger ranged from $0.02 to $0.16 (median, $0.03) and did not correlate with meat content.

Electron microscopy showed relatively preserved skeletal muscle.

A variety of tissue types besides skeletal muscle were observed including connective tissue (n = 8), blood vessels (n = 8), peripheral nerve (n = 8), adipose tissue (n = 7), plant material (n = 4), cartilage (n = 3), and bone (n = 2).

In 2 hamburgers, intracellular parasites (Sarcocystis) were identified.

The GFAP immunostaining was not observed in any of the hamburgers.

Lipid content on oil-red-O staining was graded as 1+ (moderate) in 6 burgers and 2+ (marked) in 2 burgers.

Fast food hamburgers are comprised of little meat (median, 12.1%).

Approximately half of their weight is made up of water.

Unexpected tissue types found in some hamburgers included bone, cartilage, and plant material; no brain tissue was present.

Sarcocystis parasites were discovered in 2 hamburgers.

http://www.annalspathology.com/article/S1092-9134(08)00062-2/abstract

:lol

[baseline bum]

So boutons' idea of the perfect burger is a bunch of Slim Jims between two buns?

[MultiTroll]

:lol
http://videosift.com/video/Troy-McClure-stars-in-MEAT-YOU

[boutons_deux]

So boutons' idea of the perfect burger is a bunch of Slim Jims between two buns?

You Lie

anyway, slim jims and other such shit are heavily processed, tainted, carcinogenic garbage, with buns also being heavily processed garbage.

[Clipper Nation]

So boutons' idea of the perfect burger is a bunch of Slim Jims between two buns?
Nah, the Boutons Burger would probably be some gross veggie burger with lettuce instead of the buns :lol

[TeyshaBlue]

boutons after a busy day in the forum.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7HQDWxWP2Gc/UHUKp3S22BI/AAAAAAAAAKU/DsG27Gtdcp0/s1600/ben_stiller_2005_11_10.jpg

[InRareForm]

Nah, the Boutons Burger would probably be some gross veggie burger with lettuce instead of the buns :lol


Gmo.free
Glutenfree too :lol

[boutons_deux]

BigFood is feeding you garbage, put some bacon on it and slurp that shit down.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

BigFood is feeding you garbage, put some bacon on it and slurp that shit down.

But is it really bacon?

[UZER]

BigFood is feeding you garbage, put some bacon on it and slurp that shit down.

But is it real garbage? Or fake garbage?

[boutons_deux]

beta-agonist Zilmax!

It's What's For Dinner

Exclusive: Video of 'lame' cattle stirs new concern over growth drugs

At a beef industry conference in Denver last week, the animal health auditor for meat producer JBS USA presented a video (http://www.reuters.com/news/video/most-popular?lc=int_mb_1001) showing short clips of cows struggling to walk and displaying other signs of distress. The animals appeared to step gingerly, as if on hot metal, and showed signs of lameness, according to four people who saw the video.

The people in attendance said the video (http://www.reuters.com/news/video/most-popular?lc=int_mb_1001) was presented by Dr Lily Edwards-Callaway, the head of animal welfare at JBS USA, as part of a panel discussion on the pros and cons of using a class of drugs known as beta-agonists - the additives fed to cattle in the weeks before slaughter to add up to 30 pounds to bodyweight and reduce fat content in the meat.

Edwards-Callaway told the audience the cattle had been fed a beta-agonist, but did not identify which brand. She also said various factors - including heat, transportation, and animal health - may have contributed to the behavior seen on the video, according to JBS spokesman Cameron Bruett. He said the video showed cattle were "reluctant to move," and told Reuters JBS wanted feedback from animal welfare experts, who were among those attending, on what JBS's own staff had been seeing.

Reuters was unable to determine what feedback was received. Edwards-Callaway did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

The video was shown on the same day the nation's largest meat producer, Tyson Foods Inc (http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=TSN&lc=int_mb_1001), declared it would no longer accept cattle that had been fed the most popular brand of the feed additive, called Zilmax, a powerful and fast-selling product from pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. Tyson, in a letter to its cattle suppliers, said the decision resulted not from food-safety questions but its concerns over the behavior of animals that animal health experts said could be connected to the use of Zilmax.

The JBS presentation and Tyson's decision to ban Zilmax-fed cattle underscores the increasingly complex tradeoffs facing the agricultural sector as it seeks to engineer greater volumes of food at low cost. Tensions have grown in the drive to meet that goal, including fears about animal welfare, mounting criticism by consumer advocates, and industry concern about the effect of biotechnology (http://www.reuters.com/sectors/industries/overview?industryCode=159&lc=int_mb_1001) on product quality, such as whether beef still has the fatty marbling that some consumers like.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/13/us-usa-cattle-jbs-drugs-idUSBRE97C02M20130813?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews

If even BigAg monster Tyson won't eat it, why would anybody else?