6 Things Grosser Than Horse Meat In Your Burger

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there IS nothing gross about horsemeat...

Or dog meat.... or cat meat.... or vulture meat....

PopSci: Miss the point, you have completely.

People in the Anglosphere don't object to horse-meat because it's "gross". We object to eating horse, because horses have a special relationship to their human companions. We don't eat dogs and cats for the same reason.

Ancient tribes believed you could gain an animals strength by eating it.
So this burger will give me the strength of 1000 cows!

"Ancient tribes believed you could gain an animals strength by eating it.
So this burger will give me the strength of 1000 cows!"

You would be un-tippable!

What bothers me is not what is in the meat. It is the fact that PS is getting information from PETA. What kind of facts does one get from PETA? To me this is just lazy when writing the article.

@Chris Brownell ... Are you serious. You're bothered by the fact that PopSci took a sentence from PETA reading, "When animals' intestines are torn open during slaughter, feces spill out onto their flesh.". You're an idiot, that's hardly taking 'facts' from PETA. I would call it more of providing emphasis.

"What bothers me is not what is in the meat. It is the fact that PS is getting information from PETA. What kind of facts does one get from PETA? To me this is just lazy when writing the article."

agree. PETA has a history of, ahem, embellishing the truth. A simple video of a slaughterhouse, or for big sample size, several slaughterhouses would prove once and for all if intestines really burst open and contaminate the meat with feces. What if the E coli came fro somewhere else like blood spilling from veins that drain the intestines or maybe peritoneal fluid? I dont know.

Adam and Jaime would be disappointed.

Haven't had beef "hamburger" in a while...have heard these rumors; horsemeat truly is the least of our worries. Meat grinders have been around for a while, people; and if you grind your own, you feel a whole lot better about it. You can get the classic meat grinder your grandma had at Amazon for $23 and change (stainless is a bit more; but worth it; easier to clean). Then you can add water and spices, make it juicy and rare as you want it...

People have been making pink slime in their homes for thousands of years. They call it soup stock.

S. Aureus, better known as MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus), is resistant to some antibiotics, but not ALL of them. So your claim that "roughly 13% of meat contains harmful bacteria against which humans have no remaining defenses" is false. There are, in fact, defenses--just not as many as we'd like.

You're trying to make a point by using scare tactics which detract from your article. That's shoddy journalism. Do your homework--and don't try to con your readers.

lnwolf41 Alas I am the going to be few of a dying breed (not by burger) but old age. I eat a fair amount of burgers from fast food and other places. And sad to say I'm not fazed at all. Between the terroist blowing things up, glowble warming melting the ice caps, magnetic field around the earth getting ready to shift polarity,social/ economicl collapes of the USA, me miss spelling everything, an asteroid hitting the earth, cats and dogs living together, a gross burger is nothing.

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