Yum!

[germdoc]

Wish I hadn't come across this article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/op...y.html?_r=1&em

I've kind of lost my appetite...

[Uncle Cracker]

Think of all the food producers that are at this moment frantically adding maggots and rat droppings to their products to get them up to government-approved levels...

[Kristofor]

Well, I'm with you on the yuck factor there.

That said there's a difference between gross/unsettling and unsafe... I don't want to eat hair, maggots, insect eggs, etc, so I wouldn't buy products where those were frequently appearing components.

But if they're ground to the consistency of flour and sterilized I guess I would have no way of knowing and wouldn't care... Kind of like the saying about not wanting to know how sausage is made...

[jackellis]

Wish I hadn't come across this article:

Well Jeff, stop lookin'

I remember picking dirt, hair and grass out of a caribou carcass before it went off to be made into sausage and ground 'boo. No telling what we might have missed, and I don't want to know!

[Ed62]

I did some work for a corporate lawyer, years ago. I knew there were things like that allowed in our food. At one point, he was working on a case where a maker of peanut butter had problems because the amount of rodent droppings exceeded the limit. I never found out which brand of peanut butter had the problem, but I did know the lawyer ate Jif. I've been eating it ever since.

Ed

[cabinetman]

I can remember being dressed for the occasion (camo's and a boonie) eating worse than that...knowingly. Sometimes in certain conditions there is no other choice.
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[Gator95]

OMG, and I bet that potatoes sold at the local publix might have actual DIRT all over them.

[Uncle Cracker]

Read "The Jungle" (Upton Sinclair) sometime...

[messmaker]

Read "The Jungle" (Upton Sinclair) sometime...

You will stop eating meat!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Richard in Smithville]

This story came from my dad. After WWII, when dad was serving as occupation troops, the mill where there flour came from( to bake the bread) was infested with weevils. He picked the weevils out for the first two days and after that he just buttered and ate his bread with the extra proteins. He figured it was better than the meat being served anyway.