Comments on: Talk Healthy to Me https://ecosalon.com/government-lies-misinformation-about-health-nutrition-safety/ Sun, 29 Nov 2015 15:51:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.25 By: Susan Goldberg https://ecosalon.com/government-lies-misinformation-about-health-nutrition-safety/#comment-38084 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:22:00 +0000 http://ecosalon.com/?p=86143#comment-38084 First, it’s important to know that the processed beef that becomes hamburgers now commonly contains fatty trimmings that were once relegated to pet food and tallow manufacture by the beef processing industry. Also,untreated beef contains ammonia that is typically about 6 on the pH scale. The USDA signed off on raising the pH of the meat to as high as 10 in order to destroy E. coli, but studies have raised potential issues surrounding the palatability of a pH-9.5 product. And finally, there is this question: do we really want to eat a food that needs to be treated with ammonia in order to be safe?

]]> By: Grabowski https://ecosalon.com/government-lies-misinformation-about-health-nutrition-safety/#comment-38081 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:18:00 +0000 http://ecosalon.com/?p=86143#comment-38081 Just to clarify: meat processors merely enhance the amount of ammonia already existing in ground beef in order to raise the pH (alkalinity) of the meat so that E-coli cannot live in it. The ammonia (added as a puff of gaseous ammonium hydroxide) is odorless and tasteless and it makes ground beef safer.

Thank you.

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