Gross and Disgusting? Taco Bell Uses Vegan Meat as Food!

Okay so today I watched a news story where the anchorwoman turned up her nose, made the "icky face", and said "Ewww!  Just listen to what Taco Bell is putting in their tacos"!  Well, I expected to hear some really gross stuff.  Story however is that Taco Bell is being sued for adding "meat extenders".  Meat extenders, according to their site consisting of: Isolated Oats, Wheat, Soy Lecithin & Soybean Oil, Yeast, along with sugars and spices.  Now, I'm wondering... What was the "OMG! I'm gonna barf!" statement all about???

Hum... What these ingredients are is basically Textured Vegetable Protein - TVP is just made of plants!  Legumes and grain!  What on earth makes this food so unappetizing compared to what's in the "beef" products that are consumed at Taco Bell and other places?

Textured Vegetable Protein

Really??? Oats, Wheat and Soy are "disgusting"- But consuming blood, tendons, veins, muscle, bone, gristle, growths, abscesses,  tumors, scar tissue, fat, (possible *ooops*!) evisceration contents... Eating necks, joints, legs, behinds (and anus parts), tongues, snouts, testicles, livers, lungs,... brains...  Ummm - That's not disgusiting???  I apologize, I digressed to the (awful) "offal".

Even if the "natural" flesh, blood and guts don't turn a stomach, the plethora of allowable  drugs, pharmaceuticals, wormers, pesticides and insecticides should.  Oh, and don't be deceived that these chemicals are being properly monitored.  Just yesterday The New York Times reported that the FDA is suing the dairy industry for inadequate testings and excessive drug residues in slaughterhouse calves and moms...

"The agency said that it planned to test milk from about 900 dairy farms that had repeatedly been caught sending cows to slaughter with illegal levels of drugs in their systems.

It said it would test for about two dozen antibiotics beyond the six that are typically tested for. The testing would also look for a painkiller and anti-inflammatory drug popular on dairy farms, called flunixin, which often shows up in the slaughterhouse testing".

Now... If this anchorwoman (or anyone else) is still not convinced that oats, soy and wheat aren't that "yucky" after all - This 34 page listing of FSIS approved chemicals in meat processing should alarm anyone.  From ammonium hydroxide to xanthan gum, there are moisturizers, stabilizers, preservatives, coloring agents, gasses, antimicrobials, dyes and bleaches... Maybe a little dioxin too, but whose counting?


There's Sodium hydroxide to minimize fecal material from adhering to carcasses - Oh yummy!
There's Chlorine gas for reprocessing contaminated poultry carcasses... I don't even wanna know!
There's  Alkyl polyglycosides to wash beef after the hide has been ripped off, to remove any extraneous hair, dirt, etc.) during butchering... Sure, just like pressure washing your driveway!


So, Ms. Anchorwoman... And anyone else who finds oats, wheat and soy repulsive:

There's Sodium tripolyphosphate a sequestrant/anticoagulant for use in recovered livestock blood which is subsequently used in food products.  And Polyglycerol ester added to fresh livestock blood during collection to eliminate foaming...

Now, a word to Taco Bell... If you could replace all the "beef" with 100% "TVP", I know for sure this one vegan would be delighted to return as a customer!

And the funniest thing of all is this - The cattle folks are worried this incident may shed a bad light on them... That people may distrust their industry all the more.  But might they have a valid fear that lots of unknowing (Taco Bell), TVP eating folks find this food very acceptable after all!?! 

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What Happened to Joe Camel? Drome"dairy" - Milk's Big Secret...

A new group of unweaned human adults wants to drink the milk of yet another species... The camel.

Touting claims similar to, and some beyond pushers of "cow's milk" - There seems to be some interest here in the U.S.  There are more than a dozen camel dairies.  And the milk was USDA approved for human consumption in 2009.

I have just two concerns regarding camels milk:
One is that IF "nutrition" is part of the scheme of consumption... Shouldn't humans be drinking hyena milk?  It has 15 times more "protein" than cow's milk... And about 10 times more than camel's milk.  No, probably not... hyenas aren't as docile as camels and cows - They just wouldn't be as easy to exploit...

And that leads me to my second question... Knowing all I that I do about what happens to baby calves in cow dairies... It makes me wonder - What happens to the male camel calves?  The baby "Joe" camels?  Certainly they must be stolen from their mothers - In order for the humans to steal the milk as they do from cow calves.  I'm curious - will they have baby camel igloos and hutches to make a killing from those infant's bodies too?

Ah! But think of the new markets it will open!  Manufacturers of bigger prisons housing and feeding equipment.  And hey!  What about all those slaughterhouses that will have to be redesigned to accommodate for their "humane" slaughter as well!  Quick!  Someone call Ms. Grandin... She's got more animals to design "stairways to heaven" for... Or would these be stairways to Alla?

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