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According to the USDA, you can't call this "beef" at all. Beef is defined as "flesh of cattle". Ground beef is defined as:
Chopped fresh and/or frozen beef with or without seasoning and without the addition of beef fat as such, shall not contain more than 30 percent fat, and shall not contain added water, phosphates, binders, or extenders.Which is certainly nothing like what Taco Bell is using in their products. That's the reason why an Alabama law firm is presenting a lawsuit for false advertising, claiming that what Taco Bell claims is "beef" in their commercials is just the aforementioned processed clustermass of disgust. I'm not a lawyer, but it seems they have a very good point.
Oh good another fast food is evil thread.
I love the stuff. Really, if you think about it, the ingredients to their "mud" is not all that different from any chili recipee. You people are getting grossed out over nothing.
Oh good another fast food is evil thread.
Taco Bell's meat filling looks like ground beef before and after cooking, but it has been augmented with fibers and other substances to keep the price low. That's how they can offer tacos for 99 cents—and that's fine: There's absolutely nothing wrong with their processed mixture apart from being gross.
The problem here is that the consumers may believe that this "meat filling" is actually beef while it's not. If it looks like beef, it's labeled as beef, and it's advertised as beef, then it must be beef—except that substance is not beef. It's just "meat filling". That could deceive the public, which is why there is a class action lawsuit in the works. Consumers have the right to easily learn what they are eating before making a decision to eat a taco or not, just like they need to know before buying cloned meat or genetically modified vegetables or products containing corn syrup.The final irony: The USDA says that any food labeled as "meat taco filling" should at least have 40% fresh meat. According to the Alabama law firm, Taco Bell stuff only has 36% meat. Perhaps they should call it Almost Taco Meat Filling.
Really. You put oatmeal and sand in your chili? Remind me never to eat at your house.
I read the ingredients and there is no sand and no I don't put oats in my chili. But there are no beans in the mix either...I side it was similar...not identical.
Silica = sand.
Thus ends today's chemistry lesson.
white castle rocks!!Not evil, just disgusting. And Taco Bell is one of the worst...although it has some tough competition with White Castle and Waffle House.
Same goes for del taco and jack-in-the-crack.The taco "mud" filling that Taco Bell uses in it's products is certainly not beef by any legal definition at all, but this news really comes as a surprising revelation to me.
Relevant information (which you apparently were far too busy to read):
Fast food is not evil. I still plan to eat chicken soft tacos and bean burritos at Taco Bell. But, consumers have a right to know, EASILY, what they're eating. For instance, that the "meat" you're eating in your taco is only 36% actual "meat." That's how the free market, ideally, should work. Give customers information, and let the customer decide.
But, you can't falsely advertise your product, and promise MEAT when you aren't giving people MEAT.
white castle rocks!!
Silica - Minerals - Vital Health Zone
Silica naturally exists in certain foods like banana's, which contain 13.9 mg per 250 grams. It is especially present in oats and lettuce. So if you are putting oats into the mixture you are going to have silica in it. It is not necessarily sand as in sand at the beach. Yes, it is in the same family...but it is completly different.
You mean, if I eat enough bananas, I can crap out my own glass menagerie? Cool. :mrgreen:
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