No false claims here....From the "Grist" article: "Beef Products buys the cheapest, least desirable beef on offer–fatty sweepings from the slaughterhouse floor, which are notoriously rife with pathogens like E. coli 0157 and antibiotic-resistant salmonella."

Abby sometimes exaggerates or reaches unfounded conclusions - she ought to be more careful, as those habits affect her credibility. Surely her intention is not to just manipulate the readership into responding?

Ammonia is one of the waste products of human excretion. Let urine stand long enough, it forms ammonia. That's what makes your kitty box stink. It's used to cut animal grease in various processes such as fullering and tanning. Yum yum!

In any case, there is no way in hell I would feed my dog American McD hamburger meat - I wouldn't feed my dog anything I wouldn't eat myself, and that includes dog food. We are entitled to better, and so are our pets.

The USFDA also accepts a certain amount of rodent droppings, insect parts, animal hair in our food, as those are impossible to eliminate completely from the harvesting-storage-processing chain. But that's a long way from actually ADDING toxic substances to the food, eh.

Another interesting additive is meat glue, used to glue together bits and pieces of assorted trimmings, which are then wrapped in plastic, sliced, and sold as a higher-priced "cut". I never buy any meat that's been wrapped in saran and then sliced - kind of a tip-off. Kind of a rip-off. At least, meat glue is actually made from meat and not peepee.

But vegans are dangerous people, waiting on every corner to attack responsible law-abiding meat-eaters. Have you not seen the anti-vegan websites and occasional foaming-at-the-mouth meat-eater commenters here? Mad Cow maybe?

Hitler was a vegan so that proves it. Oops! Godwin just got me.

Not to worry - you'll get your ration of insect parts, rat hair, and rodent poop in the veggies and grains you eat. Gawd only knows what all is in the tofu!

Read Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" - it's about the meat processing industry in Chicago in the 30's (?). It caused quite a stir, as Lewis described men falling into vats of lard being processed along with the lard. I suspect that human body parts end up in the food chain more often than we care to recognize - "long pork" the Hawaiians used to call it.

Lewis was disappointed in he public response, as his intention apparently was to raise consciousness about human rights,labour and safety violations in the meat processing industry, but people cared only about the purity of their food.

What makes you think GOoPer shit is any different then Demo shit?