Strong Words from Congress on CO Meat
"Firms like Hormel and Cargill that believe it is acceptable to endanger consumers if it helps the companies' bottom lines will soon learn that this Congress will not tolerate their deceptive practices,"
said Congressman Bart Stupak in a press release yesterday. The Democrat from Michigan was congratulating Tysons Food, Inc. for quietly informing the Committee on Energy and Commerce that it will phase out the deceptive practice of treating meat with carbon monoxide to preserve the blood red color associated with freshness – potentially long past meat spoilage.
Tysons, the nation's largest producer of red meat who has gotten a bit of criticism from Food & Water Watch on things like factory poultry farming, can't say we never say anything nice about them again because: Good job Tysons for listening to the 93% of Americans who think the practice is lousy! And unlike Starbucks with it's nebulous phase-out of rBGH, Tysons even set a date! Consumers can expect products produced after September 7th to be produced without carbon monoxide treatment, according to the company's letter to the committee.
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