Meat Glue?????

I know my views on food are radical compared to mainstream America.  However, I started where everyone else did, I did not grow up on an organic farm, or with from the dirt hippie parents, I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit.  I ate whatever was at the store for much of my life.  Along the way, I began to learn and from that learning apply what I knew.  Even two years ago, I would still eat at the margins, 80/20 rule.  However, the alterations to food that have accelerated in the past year alone, have made it impossible for me to deviate from my path.  In my practice, I apply this, teaching every patient what foods will help them, which foods to avoid and how to source the good foods local to where they live.  Consequently, when more information is disclosed on the practices of the food industry, their methods and the lack of conscience behind them, I am bound to comment.  Therefore....

The following link describes the use of meat glue.  A compound designed to meld in an undetectable way pieces of meat to resemble a steak.  This glue is a health hazard all by its self, but for many that is not motivation, I know.  So, consider that you go to the store or to your favorite restaurant and buy a steak, you pay premium prices for steak, and unknown to you, what is served is meat pieces glued together.  This should get you angry, it should make you irate, it should make you demand your butcher or your restaurant owner certify that what you are getting and paying for is steak not glue meat. 

This personifies the problems with our food supply.  Bear in mind, I am not calling for more government oversight, or new rules.  I am calling for a food conscience.  As consumers, we have all the power to influence how and what happens to our food before we eat it, if you demand that the places you buy food certify personally that what you are getting is not glue meat, it won't be glue meat, but you have to speak up, stay informed and direct your money to those who are willing to be honest about what you are eating. 

The best way to avoid all this: buy grass fed and pasture raised meat processed at organic meat processing places in your local area.  In Michigan there are a few family owned meat processing plants, all of them ethical, open and honest and no meat glue! 

Meat Glue