Bad Meat? Wal-Mart Doesn’t Care.
Bad Meat? Wal-Mart Doesn’t Care.
A news team in Wisconsin does the gassed meat story again and guess what large grocery chain was one of the losers?:
We went shopping back in July. We bought packages of ground beef from stores all over the area. Within a couple of weeks, many of the packages had turned brown or green and smelled bad. But some remained bright red, looking fresh.
The FDA says it’s OK for a meat packer to add carbon monoxide to its products. The meat is then packed in a handy, airtight container. We found those containers at Aldi and Super Wal-mart in Mukwonago. We suspected the packages contained carbon monoxide, because weeks after the expiration dates passed, the meats were still bright red.
We took those bright red packages of meat to a food scientist at SF Analytical labs in West Allis in November - four months after buying them.
“That looks good,” said Mark Moyer, our expert. But when we popped the containers open…
“That’s just rancid. That’s rancid meat,” he said, breathing through a mask we had provided him to help alleviate the smell.
The problem? Some of the meat still looked good.
“The worst case is that there’s e. coli or salmonella in there,” Moyer told us. “There’s a deception there, this one obviously looks good, and it’s way past.”
As bad as it was, one package bought more recently - just six weeks ago - didn’t smell bad. It didn’t look bad either. “There’s a possibility somebody could get sick eating that,” Moyer explained his concerns.
What you need to remember is that months ago Wal-Mart claimed it had already stopped selling carbon monoxide treated meat.
In the end though, I’m no longer surprised by stuff like this. Remember the Nazi t-shirts that still aren’t off the shelves (as of last week)? Besides, how can Wal-Mart control what gasses their suppliers use when they’ve outsourced the cutting process to those suppliers at the same time they regularly shake them down for ever-lower prices.
Now more than ever: Only a fool would eat meat from Wal-Mart.
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A news team in Wisconsin does the gassed meat story again and guess what large grocery chain was one of the losers?:
We went shopping back in July. We bought packages of ground beef from stores all over the area. Within a couple of weeks, many of the packages had turned brown or green and smelled bad. But some remained bright red, looking fresh.
The FDA says it’s OK for a meat packer to add carbon monoxide to its products. The meat is then packed in a handy, airtight container. We found those containers at Aldi and Super Wal-mart in Mukwonago. We suspected the packages contained carbon monoxide, because weeks after the expiration dates passed, the meats were still bright red.
We took those bright red packages of meat to a food scientist at SF Analytical labs in West Allis in November - four months after buying them.
“That looks good,” said Mark Moyer, our expert. But when we popped the containers open…
“That’s just rancid. That’s rancid meat,” he said, breathing through a mask we had provided him to help alleviate the smell.
The problem? Some of the meat still looked good.
“The worst case is that there’s e. coli or salmonella in there,” Moyer told us. “There’s a deception there, this one obviously looks good, and it’s way past.”
As bad as it was, one package bought more recently - just six weeks ago - didn’t smell bad. It didn’t look bad either. “There’s a possibility somebody could get sick eating that,” Moyer explained his concerns.
What you need to remember is that months ago Wal-Mart claimed it had already stopped selling carbon monoxide treated meat.
In the end though, I’m no longer surprised by stuff like this. Remember the Nazi t-shirts that still aren’t off the shelves (as of last week)? Besides, how can Wal-Mart control what gasses their suppliers use when they’ve outsourced the cutting process to those suppliers at the same time they regularly shake them down for ever-lower prices.
Now more than ever: Only a fool would eat meat from Wal-Mart.
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