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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Oct 2, 2010 10:52:54 GMT -6
Below is a link and article from the site Country-of-Origin Label. www.countryoforiginlabel.org/ht/d/sp/i/34489/pid/34489DOES A MEAT PRODUCT NEED A LABEL? " Work through this set of questions and you should be able to determine whether COOL applies to the products you make.
A meat product from beef (including veal), pork, lamb, chicken, or goat must bear a COOL label or is subject to labeling providing COOL information if:
It is sold at retail,
AND
It is a muscle cut, or It is a ground product
The product is EXEMPT from COOL labeling requirements if:
The meat product is sold at foodservice (e.g., restaurants, institutions, etc.),
OR
The meat product has undergone specific processing resulting in a change of character (e.g. cooking, curing, smoking or restructuring) or has been combined with at least one other covered commodity or other substantive food component. The exemption includes, for example, the following:
a. Hot dogs and sausages b. Lunch meat c. Cooked products d. Breaded products e. Cured products f. Products in which the meat is an ingredient (e.g., spaghetti sauce with meat) g. Fabricated steak h. Meatloaf i. Marinated pork tenderloin" If anyone can find a better or more current link, please post it here.
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Post by graybeard on Oct 3, 2010 5:43:19 GMT -6
That last list is the one to avoid, anyhow, because of nasty additives. Digestion is the same process as spoilage, so spoilage inhibitors such as nitrites also retard digestion. That kinda' food stays in your stomach far too long. I guess it would be one way to diet - feeling full because your hot dog won't digest.
GB
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Post by waltc on Oct 15, 2010 23:37:33 GMT -6
a. Hot dogs and sausages b. Lunch meat c. Cooked products d. Breaded products e. Cured products f. Products in which the meat is an ingredient (e.g., spaghetti sauce with meat) g. Fabricated steak h. Meatloaf i. Marinated pork tenderloin"
Ahh shades of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle". Mystery meat combined from mysterious locales from around the world and flavored with synthetic ingredients that only a chemist can understand.
Eating most them is like eating off a roach coach, the texture of the meat is strange, weird hard objects is found in the "meat", it's flavor cannot be placed, one doesn't know if you're actually eating rat, dog, horse or a midget that fell into the meat processor.
Whats not to like?
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Oct 16, 2010 1:14:15 GMT -6
That last list is the one to avoid, anyhow, because of nasty additives. Digestion is the same process as spoilage, so spoilage inhibitors such as nitrites also retard digestion. No, it isn't. Spoilage is from auto-digestion by the meat itself. The breakdown in spoilage is the result of enzymes in the muscle cells of the meat itself, that get released into the meat causing protein breakdown. In contrast, digestion is the result of enzymes secreted into the digestive tract from the body, most of which are gastric, intestinal, or pancreatic in origin. Preservatives that prevent spoilage--or autodigestion of meat--have no effect on the enzymes secreted into the digestive tract. What can effect digestion of meat are things like anti-acids, since the proteolytic enzymes of the stomach only work in an acid environment. Reducing the acid in the stomach greatly reduces the activity of gastric proteolytic enzymes. In theory, at least, this slows the digestion of protein. In reality, it probably only has only a minor effect, because proteolytic enzymes in the small intestine do not require an acid environment.
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Post by lidonis1 on Mar 31, 2011 16:12:26 GMT -6
good post!!! +1)))
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Post by blueneck on Apr 20, 2011 19:26:26 GMT -6
Excerpt from the paid content section of Mfg and Tech news
WTO Wants To Eliminate Country-Of-Origin Labeling That product you're holding was not made in China, according to the WTO
Anyone know any more about this - if true its aboslutely criminal
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Post by graybeard on Apr 20, 2011 22:17:02 GMT -6
Mostly it doesn't matter anymore. It's all made in Communist China.
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Post by blueneck on Apr 21, 2011 4:51:56 GMT -6
We need more country of origin labeling. not less and especially the dishonest and misleading "distributed by" rather than "made in"
virtually impossible to make informed purchase decisions without origin labelling
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Apr 21, 2011 18:13:56 GMT -6
We need more country of origin labeling. not less and especially the dishonest and misleading " distributed by" rather than "made in" Exactly. I've been ranting about the "distributed by" deception for the last 5 years. It should be illegal to even use that label, since it's DELIBERATELY designed to deceive consumers and anyone who reads it. No one gives a rat's ass who "distributes" it, and these free traitor manufacturers know it. They're hoping Americans will think this label somehow means it was made in the USA. In fact, whenever I see the label, I assume it was not made in the USA--since it wouldn't even be necessary to state where it was distributed from. For example, almost every vitamin product is labeled as "distributed by Benedict Arnold Corporation, any town, USA." The vitamin product that does not say this is One-A-Day vitamins, which instead says "Made in U.S.A."
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