meat prices going up again

[DrLeftover]

Fresh on the heels of the invented hysteria about 'pink slime', which drove up the prices of everything made with processed meat, including soup, lunch meat, hot dogs, frozen dinners, and fast food, not to mention what it did to fresh 'butcher's counter' meat prices at the super market, now you have another made for TV news freakout.



Meat Glue.



For the record, 'pink slime' had been used for twenty years before the New York Times, with an axe to grind against the producer, trumpeted about it in an article and got a TV chef to banter on about it. Then the hype hit, and now hundreds of people who worked at the factories that produced it are out of a job, and you are slammed in your checkbook.



Stand by for the Meat Glue nonsense.



It too has been used for years, but all of the sudden, it's on the news.

 

[Jazzy]

I'd like to have my mouth glued around a nice T-Bone steak right now!

 

[Fatal Dawn]

Another article about the hype:





'Meat glue' issue involves wide misunderstanding, expert contends



UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The sticking point when it comes to the current furor over the use of products given the unappetizing name meat glue by critics of the food industry, is labeling, according to a meat expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.



Operators of meat-processing plants, out of necessity, adhere to a strict policy of accuracy when it comes to listing ingredients in products, said Edward Mills, associate professor of dairy and animal science. In facilities inspected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, truth in labeling is very serious business.



More: http://live.psu.edu/story/59874#nw4