When does meat taste meaty?

Gregorio 2022-04-23 07:03:04

The old man would occasionally say: Now I can eat meat every day, but the meat has no meat taste, it is not as good as before. After watching this documentary, I began to understand the reason why this meat is not meaty. Everything is related to the industrial processing of food. In the United States, which pursues economic benefits, food is produced in an industrialized model. Monopoly food companies make huge profits out of it, at the expense of the public who pays a health price. If I hadn't seen this movie, I would have had a hard time believing that a child would have lost his life by eating a hamburger. The meat of the burger is made of ground beef. Tens of thousands of intensively farmed cattle are mixed into ground beef, and if a sick cow is mixed in, it can no longer be isolated from the ground beef. The poor kid just got sick from eating a beef burger with germs, costing his precious life. When ordinary food becomes deadly, where can the public feel at ease? The film also records the irony of the problem: the amount of bacteria in chicken processed in a closed large-scale food factory far exceeds that of chicken processed in an open environment on an ecological farm, but the relevant health department ordered the ecological farm to be transformed. Why are food factories exempted? Watching such a film makes people worry. Food companies put profits first, and government departments ignore them. What should the public do? Fortunately, ecological farms have begun to emerge, and niche farmers have returned to traditional farming methods. Although small, but at least there is a place to choose when you want to eat meaty meat.

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  • Title card: SB-63 passed the State Legislature. But Governor Schwarzenegger then vetoed it.

    Eric Schlosser: These companies fight, tooth and nail, against labeling. The fast food industry fought against giving you the calorie information. They fought against telling you if there is trans-fat in your food. The meat packing idustry for years prevented country-of-origin labeling. They fought not to label genetically modified foods; and now 70% of processed food in the supermarket has some genetically modified ingredient.

  • Eric Schlosser: These companies have legions of attorneys. And they may sue, even if they know they can't win, just to send a message.