Bad news for meat industry

[speeder]

My kind of guy. ^^^

[sammyg2]

I ate a snausage McMuffin this morning, now I'm not going to live forever. Bummer.

[sammyg2]

"Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible."

Euell Gibbons

A 1974 television commercial for Post Grape-Nuts cereal featured Gibbons asking viewers "Ever eat a pine tree? Many parts are edible." While he recommended eating Grape Nuts over eating pine trees (Grape Nuts' taste "reminds me of wild hickory nuts"), the quote caught the public's imagination and fueled his celebrity status.

Gibbons died on December 29, 1975, at Sunbury Community Hospital in Sunbury, Pennsylvania.[2] His death was the result of a ruptured aortic aneurysm, a complication from Marfan syndrome. Gibbons's health condition was possibly aggravated by smoking, a high fat diet, arthritis problems, and a lack of exercise.

[Rot 911]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

About twice a year I like to warm up to a nice filet with a dry martini and enjoy the steak with a glass of Columbia valley Pinot noire. If it takes a few days off of my life it's worth it.

Twice a year? Hell, I do that once a week.

[McLovin]

[gacook]

Originally Posted by Tobra

So bacon is bad for you again? Sunshine gives you cancer too. Has at least as much, if not more, to do with genetics. All my relatives live into their 90's and keep their wits about them, despite smoking cigarettes for decades, eating butter, bacon, eggs, steak and all sorts of bad for you stuff.

If I have to give up eating steak and bacon to pick up a few years, bad years at the end, I would rather keep having my T bones, BLT's and bacon wrapped, cream cheese stuffed jalapeno. mmm, bacon wrapped jalapenoes

If I eat blackened fish, would the carcinogenic black stuff be cancelled out by the fish oil? I am going with that, and eating oatmeal to cancel out the bacon fat, so it is all good.


I think that paper was a reinterpretation of old study data.

Damn you, Doc! Now, I'm craving those jalapenos...

[sammyg2]

My grandmother (father's side) is 101 years old, and she is NOT HAPPY!
She is mean, crabby, and generally unpleasant to be around.

I DO NOT want to live that long. Not even close.
The quality of life really starts to slide after a certain age.

[flatbutt]

Try uncured bacon guys...you'll love it.

[Iciclehead]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

Try uncured bacon guys...you'll love it.

Does it still need to be attached to the pig?

Sounds aggressive....

Dennis

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by Iciclehead

Does it still need to be attached to the pig?

Sounds aggressive....

Dennis

No, not technically. But then you'd know it's fresh!

[J P Stein]

More drivel from who?........will probably get a bonus from those that pay the tab. Progress?

[javadog]

If we processed meat like the French, Italians and Spanish, this would be a non-issue.

JR

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by javadog

If we processed meat like the French, Italians and Spanish, this would be a non-issue.

JR

I've never had a French, Italian, or Spanish sausage McMuffin.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by Iciclehead

Does it still need to be attached to the pig?

Sounds aggressive....

Dennis

MMMM pork bellies.

[javadog]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

I've never had a French, Italian, or Spanish sausage McMuffin.

Go to a McDonalds in Europe. It's a trip...

Better yet, never go to a McDonalds anywhere.

Make your own sausage, never buy it. I don't recommend curing your own bacon, but there is the Bacon of the Month Club...

In between, eat jamon, coppa, etc.

JR

[Hydrocket]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

I looked into smoking my sausages and they recommend putting preservatives in it to keep bacteria from growing during the smoking process. You have to be very precise about temperature to keep it cool enough not to cook it but warm enough to keep bacteria from growing.
I watched a "How It's Made" episode on TV showing a bacon factory. I wasn't so fond of bacon after watching that. They stab it with rows of needles and inject chemicals.

I smoke my own bacon. It's easy to do.

Here's a slice of a slab I did last week.

[fred cook]

Originally Posted by speeder

This just came out this morning. I'm probably doomed, I eat way too much red meat.

From an economic standpoint, it's going to be rough times for Texas and much of the farm belt of the USA with falling commodity prices and now this. From an environmental standpoint, raising cattle is worse than all the cars and trucks on the road plus the coal-fired factories if you factor in water usage and greenhouse gas emissions, plus a few other things.

I don't see the death of the beef industry but I'm glad I'm not invested in it or any other commodity right now.

The press release:
Processed meat can lead to cancer; red meat is risky too, WHO says - LA Times

Heard about this a couple of days ago. Had bacon for supper in protest!

[Hydrocket]

^^everyone has to do their part!!

[onewhippedpuppy]

We get meat from my in laws, they buy at least one cow per year and have it butchered. Grass fed, no hormones or other crap like that, just tasty fresh meat.

[J P Stein]

But what do they feed the grass?