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To: Solon who wrote (136)	8/30/2006 2:06:08 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356

Canned meat can be a real witches brew of intoxicants or toxicants. Animal by products or chips from chordata and all is imho not that safe vis a vis BSE. I avoid all ground meats, and non-organic meats. I am sure the canning companies are almost as compliant and careful of hygiene as the animal feed companies and perhaps nearly as careful about proper nutritional balance or eventually they will be, but my problem with factory main line food is dufold, and I don't mean the underwear. For one if a gross oversight is made, then it is spread everywhere quickly, and its inclusion in the animal feed itself is a compounding pathology. This harms the most people, most quickly, and second, factory methods compound problems that may appear in feedlots where steroids, hormones and antibiotics are added. This is not to mention mechanical deboning methods, which can maximize inclusion of animal nervous system components which have special possibilities of pathology. Canned meats are high in sodium too, which is not good. The whole issue of factory cleanliness, lax inspection and lax bacteria testing, the low yield per carcass and subsequent incentive to cut corners is yet another group of problems with meats. EC<:-}