Ed Huntress wrote:

"john" wrote in message
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I bet we all ate cat at one time or another if we ate chinese. I remember
a chinese restruant in Journal Square, NJ that was paying kids 25 cents
per cat back in the late fifties.


You *eat* in Journal Square? I try not to breathe there. d8-)

lol, I lived in Secaucus for many years. 50's to the 70's and worked
in the pig farms, in the truch maintance garage. I could never get near
"city fed pork" stuff while cooking smelled just like the garbage they
fed the pigs.



There also was the Chinese restaurant over near Somerville that was cited
for using roadkilled venison, and that was only a few years ago.


Nothing wrong with roadkill if the meat wasnt brused. I hit one once at
one in the morning and it was a clean kill... head hit the front bumper,
but wasn't in the mood to screw with it at 1 AM.





And Ed, do you remember Merkel Meats, that horsemeat tasted pretty good.


Some people think very highly of horsemeat. But then, I used to like
'possum, too, and I still think my _Gourmet_ magazine recipe for groundhog
in sour cream can't be beat.

I'm really not prejudiced against particular species. It's just what's done
to them.


My theory is that if everyone else is eating it and it tastes good,
don't ask what it is.






FWIW, I think that reducing the number of food inspectors is a very bad
idea. I also am wary of all of the fresh food we're importing, although that
one certainly is a losing battle. I'm shooting for increasing my percentage
of locally grown food this year, and it's not that tough to do.


There should be a lot of local grown food in your area or did the
farmers all decide growing houses was more profitable? The problem with
some 'locally grown food' stands is that you see the empty boxes behind
the stand that the food came in from distant places.



We know from experience, before the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act,
how things are driven by unregulated market forces. It's deadly. I can't
accept the idea that we can't have vastly improved food inspection, nor do I
believe consumers would fight the extra costs by lobbying to reduce
inspections.


I guess you read Upton Sinclair too.


In any case, it can't cost more than the present effects of using corn to
produce ethanol. Have you priced corn on the commodity markets lately? Holy
cow.


Ethanol is another ripoff by the food cartel, Cargill, ADM and others.
I am waiting to see how the govt changes the rules again on computing
the inflation rate to hid the increases in food prices due to the
increased cost of corn.



Some industries have a good inspection program but even with the
inspection programs things slip through the cracks. It does seem though
fot that much meat to be contaminated, there was a gross on going failure
in the inspection at Topps.


John


Something is screwy about that whole thing. I think there will be more to be
heard about that story.



We have a couple of new large scale meat processing plants opening up in
this area.... I wonder if there is a connection?




John