My dad use to work at IBP in South Dakota in the early 80's. It was actually considered good work by many, if you can get it. Before the company got swallowed up or whatever, the pay was relatively good and the benefits weren't bad. He still hated the monogamous routine. Judging from the movie, I guess he did the right thing by moving to California and starting his own business.
Bump. So after Mr. Oliver gets on national TV and causes awareness McDonalds says no more BPI. I owe this movie to changing the way I eat though. At least it's a small step to making me think about liking the image of a Big Mac. http://blog.chron.com/lorensteffy/2012/01/mcdonalds-no-longer-using-pink-slime-in-burgers/
I still can’t bring myself to watch the movie but tons of people I know have. My diet has been radically changed over the last 2 ½ years (reduced my consumption of refined sugar by about 90%, no more red meat, added fresh vegetables, eliminated fast food and consume true “free range” eggs) and will eventually reach the point where the majority of what I eat comes from my own garden or farms/co-ops within 10-20 minutes of my home that I can visit and see how they do things. If I didn’t feed 8lbs of meat to my dogs every day, I would have no need for commercial meat products currently. Ultimately, my goal is to get out of the suburbs and the rat race all together and live on acreage growing/raising most of my own food and selling/trading the excess with other locals folks doing the same.
Sounds like a nice retirement. Don't let the feds get wind though, they don't like it when people sell the healthy raw stuff, especially milk: http://www.naturalnews.com/033280_FDA_raids_timeline.html http://healthimpactnews.com/2011/ob...raids-in-plan-to-increase-control-over-farms/
I heard about this not too long ago. It was my understanding that the feds only regulated transporting the milk across state lines but each state had its own laws regarding the sale of raw milk within the state. Either way, I have no interest in raw milk. I also plan to do this long before retirement age.
The thought of eating pink slime is horrible. I'm going to go chug some blue-green algae to help erase the thought from my mind.
BPI has stopped production of "pink slime" in 70% of it's plants because of "misrepresentation by social and national media". Amazing what a little information can do to get people to pay attention to what they eat. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/busines...eef-company-on-defensive-as-it-closes-plants/
Yeah, if we can get a cow in SF, I know you can get one in Houston! We are skipping the cow though this year. The studies on what beef, even grass fed, do to you on the long haul... just not encouraging. And I do love it so. Just trying to cut back on it.
Moes started this thread and now he's posting new threads about how real men eat fatty, greasy, hamburgers, lol.
Even Michael Pollan says it's ok to enjoy a nice hamburger once in a while. I'm sure he also understands hyperbole and satire as well.
