Friday, May 30, 2008

just meat


While shopping for orbed shaped glass for orgonite, we ran into the guy who delivers helium to the dollar store. He was a pretty lively guy who liked to talk and told us of some of the gases on his truck, some of which are going to the meat processing plant in Humbolt. He said he had some pretty dangerous gases, one of which is carbon monoxide. Realizing carbon monoxide is that nasty gas that kills you if you run your car in a closed garage, I asked what in the world anyone would use it for. He said it's used to inject meat to keep it looking red and fresh. All the meat you see in Wal-Mart is injected with carbon monoxide to keep it looking fresh and alive.
I suppose you can paint a corpse with flesh colored paint but it won't make it any healthier.

I made up my mind right then and there to never buy meat at Wal-Mart. There are better places to go besides the big box meat markets that don't poison their food... for now.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I would never buy meat at Walmart, thank-you for the information, and you heard it from a man delivering helium to the dollar store?!?!?

karmasurfer said...

Yup. He's been in the business for a long time. Says if you want good meat go to a real butcher but if you want poison go to Walmart. I used to wonder why their beef looked so much redder than anyone elses.