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You hear it from everyone, your doctor, health
associations, even weight loss associations, "read the
ingredient labels". Until recently this only applied to
food that was prepared ahead for you. You never had to
worry when you were making a roast for your family, you knew what
you were using for ingredients and just how fresh they were. But in
today's time of "Superstores" and "Super-marts" you have to read the
ingredients even on food that you always considered to be fresh and pure.
Is the meat that you purchase in these "Superstores or "Super-marts" 100%
meat? Is it possible you are paying for something that you didn't intend
to buy?
In a recent investigation, packages of meat that were being sold
in these large stores of today, listed ingredients such as water, sodium
phosphate, potassium lactate, dextrose, salt and natural flavorings. What
happened to the meat?
What happened to the meat is that it became a victim of
cost cutting and labor savings programs that the large stores of today are
using. The byproduct is that when you, the consumer, shop these large
stores, it's possible that you are no longer buying fresh cut 100% meat. You
could be buying meat
that was cut hundreds of miles away in a processing plant. The water and
other ingredients are then added to make it look fresh cut and preserve the
meat.
Some of the "Superstores" of today already don't have to employ
butchers to cut meat. All of their meat is packaged and trucked in.
Most "Superstores" are carrying prepackaged meat to some extent. Some
just carry prepackaged poultry with water added. Some sell pork that was precut and
prepackaged with added ingredients. Instead of listing
the additives as ingredients, some label the product using the
following statement, "flavor enhanced with". Many sell you ground meat that they
label as their better quality, leaner Hamburg, that was pre-ground in one of
these processing plants. No meat cutting experience or any detailed
knowledge of meat is required. Our children will never know the pleasure
of asking their butcher for advice on that special cut of meat, for that very
special dinner.
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