wff_ng_7 wrote:
> "Margaret Suran" > wrote:
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/di...=1&oref=slogin
>
> I started noticing this a couple of years ago with fresh pork products. I
> bought it unwittingly on several occassions, and wondered why the pork had
> an unpleasant soapy taste (to me). I finally made the connection, and saw
> that one of my local supermarket chains switched over pretty much entirely
> to enhanced pork. There are supermarkets that do still carry non-enhanced
> pork, and big meat packing companies that still provide it to them. Hatfield
> Foods and Smithfield Foods seem to offer both non-enhanced and enhanced
> fresh pork, but that doesn't mean the supermarkets carry the non-enhanced
> versions.
>
> I think the phrase on the label "minimally processed, no artificial
> ingredients" is an indication of meat that hasn't been injected. I knew
> turkeys were injected with things for decades, as what is a self basting
> bird anyway? Back in my days of deep frying turkeys, I knew to get a
> minimally processed one since I was going to be doing my own injecting
> (injecting a pre-injected bird is counterproductive). I think fresh turkeys
> tended to be minimally processed, but frozen turkeys could be either. My
> father specifically bought the minimally processed ones because of his
> sodium restricted diet.
>
> --

(this is not directed directly to wff_ng_7, but, to the thread in
general)
I live in California in a town of over 60,000 population. We are
served by 3 supermarket chains; Safeway, Albertson's, and Nugget, a
local chain. I can say with assuance that I have never, ever bought a
piece of enhanced meat that was not labeled as such. There are plenty
of brands and varieties of enhanced meat for sale in all of the markets
and, when you include ham, bacon, turkeys, sausage, lunch meat, and so
on it would easily make up 60% of the meat for sale. All you have to
do is read the label to tell the difference. I repeat, read the label!

D.M.