Grocery Store Commodity Beef

NOT SO REAL.

Corporate controlled, industrial production

• Feeding diets not natural, and stressful to ruminantsExternalize costs onto the environment, people, and community

Slaughtered and Processed by multinational meat packers

• Animals may travel long distances from ranch to feedlot slaughter
• High speed, dangerous kill lines
• Low paid, refugee workers
• Unsanitary slaughter practices – Self inspection (HACCP)

Maximum use of performance enhancing compounds

• Including hormones, steroids, beta agonists, sub-therapeutic antibiotics
• Increases weight and lowers cost by $200 per head
• Illegal in Europe
• Reduced tenderness and quality
• Negative impact on disposition and health of animal

Ground beef may include meat from 1,000’s of animals

May be sourced from several foreign countries

May have solution added

• Typically 12% solution added with Modified Atmospheric Packaging (MAP)
• May contain water, beef flavoring, flavor enhancers, preservatives, etc.

May contain Advanced Meat Recovery (AMR)

• Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB aka Pink Slime, mechanically separated meat, etc.) may be included at 10% or more in the grind.

May be blade tenderized

• Increased pathogen risk