/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Technology sure is scary.

>>4766482
>>4766482
the fuck?
wish you could file a lawsuit

They say beef sausages, they didn't say how much of it was beef.

but if it said turkey sausage you would be pissy that there is beef in it at all

>>4766490
not if the percentage of turkey was higher than anything else

>eatable casing
>eatable
uwot

>>4766556
It's the same as edible and perfectly correct.

>>4766700
edible != eatable
They have different meanings.

This doesn't make sense, why add other meats during the production process?

>>4766777
Because mechanically seperated poultry is cheap as shit.

In the US it was deemed unconstitutional to force companies to show the amount of beef in a beef product.

>>4766801

That's because consumers, most of whom know nothing about science, would then develop this prejudicial view that "less beef" means "lower quality".

It's the same as the GMO witch hunt. There's no need to label because GMO is not something to be afraid of.

It amazes me when fearmongers demand to be given information that they're unable to understand in the first place.

>£6/kg
Holy shit, why would anyone buy that crap?

>>4766814
monsanto pls go

>>4766814
I support labeling stuff, which consumers want to know and also understand that most of them have little knowledge of the consequences. The thing is that this level of stupidity is common place throughout all consumer goods. Brand clothing is a typical example. If people would rather pay a higher price for a higher beef content, then let them. All it does is concentrate the market more on high beef content foods with no net loss in the food industry.

>>4766814
Except if you call it beef on the label, you should have to actually be selling beef, and inform the customer if it isn't actually all beef.

I mean, how would you feel if you went and bought some gold jewelry, only to find it was actually 80% brass, 15% aluminum, and only 5% actual gold?

This one always gets me
http://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Baxters-Favourite-Oxtail-Soup-/42441011?sku=42441011&dnr=y
>1% cooked oxtail meat
Different food types have different regulations on labeling.

>>4766829
This is a bit different, because gold plated jewelry would still be gold jewelry. A better comparison would be: how would you feel if you bought ground beef, and instead it was mostly ground chicken - which has no fat and little compared to beef?

>>4766829

If you were too ignorant to notice, then why should you care?

If you were able to notice, then eventually the free market would stop things like that from happening.

This isn't rocket science, people. We don't need the nanny government to stick their fingers where it doesn't belong. The government is for protecting the property rights of large corporations, as interpreted by those large corporations. Asking them to make grandma not dump boiling water all over her twat is for statists who would rather deny you the right to drink a 24 oz slurpee than have successful companies making money.

>>4766835
Do you know the percentage of oxtail meat in an actual oxtail soup?

that's not allowed where I live, where we don't deepthroat corporate cock, then bendover and ask for more ass rape

lol murrrikans you fucking dumbasses

>>4766840
Well, people are pressuring the government, which regulate labeling, to force them to put things on the labels. This pressure is already forcing some companies to be more transparent, without government mandate.

>>4766851
>pound sterling sign in image
You're not very good at this.

>>4766840
>mfw liberitarians are incompetent retards who can only make money by outright scamming people and fight tooth and nail to be granted the right to do so

>>4766870
You just don't get it do you?

>>4766879
>the will of the consumer is the ultimate rule!
>stop wanting things I don't want to offer, consumer!

Libertarianism only works if the consumers are all picky and whiny as fuck. The second they start saying, "oh well, I guess this is good enough", the whole system collapses in a pile of shit products.

>>4766879
>>4766888
Not true. If libertarians had their way, we'd also have very strong property laws, and would have very strong laws for dealing with criminal behavior. Lying on the packaging isn't right. There's a difference between having a free market, and allowing people to outright lie on packaging.

Most of the best oversight groups are non-profits, not the government - because they aren't fucking bought out by the companies.

>>4766897
I don't see how that contradicts what I said here >>4766888

>>4766482

Because it's just the product name. For example, if it was the only one of their range containing beef, it would make sense to call it their 'beef' sausage.

This is where ingredients lists are to the benefit of the companies. Because once you've got the ingredients you can call it what you want and it's caveat emptor, read the small print.

Besides, if you could sue over a product name, think of all the money Nescafe Gold Blend would have lost by now.

>>4766899
not the anon you were talking to but what you said implies that companies would be free to lie their ass off and the populace would have complete knowledge about every product on the market.

>>4766814
>There's no need to label because GMO is not something to be afraid of.

then there's no need to not label it

>>4766897
Libertarians are basically anarchists. They believe human desire and market forces should be the only government.

>>4766840
That "free market" you speak of consists of far too many retards. If the product isn't actually physically harmful, they probably wouldn't get edged out. Especially if they can sell their shit for cheap. The masses love that shit.

must taste like shit to add e621 in there

>mechanically separated
That phrase has always creeped me the hell out when I read it.
Makes me think of some robot just raking its claws over a chicken, tearing the flesh off chunk by chunk as the bird flaps around helplessly.

>>4767229

>>4767229
Hey, I happen to like e621.
It helps increase the muscle mass in my hand.

..and dick.

>>4767254

The truth is actually much worse than that.

>>4767229
I love me some e621 at night

>>4766482
that is absolutely disgusting and should be against the law, FIRST, your paying for a product, and that alone should be grounds for false advertising.

SECOND, i read everything before i buy and then again before i eat it, and if i saw that in a food, i would toss it right into the trash can. no way.

>muh shitty processed, glorified bologna in a casing has questionable ingredients
>IS DIS LEGAL?
Considering they've been putting unwanted and questionable meat additions into slurried product in a tube for centuries I'd say....yes. And I'd say compared to Upton Sinclair's era of meat packing, the ingredients are actually probably a lot more sterile and safe to consume.

>>4766814
>>4766829
You again. 2nd time this week.

When will you understand that nobody cares about your poor hunger children?

>>4767257
Post full picture pls.

When I reverse image search I just get planes.

>>4769873
>is this legal?
>DUEHRR CONSIDURIN THEY DID DIS LONG TIME AGO BUT DEY STILL DUE IT TUDEY ITS OKAY!

>>4769873
>they've been putting unwanted and questionable meat additions into slurried product in a tube for centuries
>muh urban myths

>>4769911
What is precedent faggot.
And mechanically separated meat product is perfectly legal, the ratio of chicken to beef that you desire is purely a consumer choice. If you want a product with a higher beef content then buy something else.

>>4769912
>seriously believing that is an urban myth
1/10 Stop that and go read a book about the meat packing industry.

>>4769916
>muh misconceptions

>>4767254
>mechanically separated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkDaajzamfA

>>4769914
Like beef sausages instead of turkey sausages?

That would be sensible.

>>4769929
Too bad we don't see the interesting part where the machine separate the flesh from the solid parts.
Is it just pressed against a grid or so;ething< the fish waste looked really clean and dry.