Comments on: Meat Glue: It’s Everywhere, But We Don’t Know It

By: Johnnymorales

Johnnymorales — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 22:54:43 +0000

Bryan Elliott that you are correct would not make your comment any less verbally aerodynamic, as it would still fly over the head of the person who wrote this article.

It’s anti-meat hysteria at its most hysterical LOL

Just how much is made clear in the sister article linked at the bottom.

By: Bryan Elliott

Bryan Elliott — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:57:00 +0000

Also, thrombin is banned in the EU. Transglutaminase is not.

By: Bryan Elliott

Bryan Elliott — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:55:42 +0000

“Since there’s no law ensuring that I be informed, I could be absorbing blood-clotting enzyme without suspecting it.”

You could very well be doing that right now. I mean: do you eat meat at all? Because animal blood has transglutaminase _in_ it. It’s blood-clotting enzyme.

By: JTR

JTR — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:09:15 +0000

Another powerful argument for becoming a vegetarian and enjoying better health than ever before by ridding your body of all those commercial toxins.

By: JohnnyMorales

JohnnyMorales — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:47:35 +0000

Hey I’m glad I heard about this. I have been wondering how Thai fish cakes get that wonderful rubbery texture. I bet they use meat glue. The notion that this is something horrible is absurd.

We’ve been eating it ever since we started eating meat, because animal meat has blood in it, from which this substance was first discovered and purified. It is NOT artificial, though perhaps now they have artificial means of mass production.

Oh and heaven forbid anyone mention this to cultures that enjoy blood sausages.

By: megan

megan — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:32:51 +0000

maybe some are missing the point here..simply, consummers have a right to know what is in their food,as the uk law requires on all food packaging. However there is vulnerability when buying loose meat in a store or eating out, as we do not ask for an ingredients list. Maybe this should be a new law, that ingredients are put on a menu for all items. In this way everyone can decide for themselves if they want to purchase a complete piece of meat or one that has been glued together with additives.
It may or may not cause harm, but we have the right to know exactly what we are buying and putting in our bodies.Passing a patchworked piece of meat off as an original one piece should be unlawful practice.

By: margaret

margaret — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:27:36 +0000

this man is mad in the head….hope his guts glue together and his anus swells

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:02:46 +0000

I agree with Harold (to a point). I think that we, as a society, are willing to accept risks we are used to. I once read a great description of this. It said, in effect, “want to vacation in Israel?” “not me, it’s too dangerous, what with all the terrorism”. In reality, you odds of dying from a terrorist attack on your vacation in the middle east is less than the change you will die in a car accident on the way to the airport. We are just used to one and not the other risk.

As to this issue, we need full disclosure. There is no reason I shouldn’t know what I’m putting into my body. I may still decide to do so but how can you think I don’t have the right to know? The FDA needs to rethink its purpose in the country or it needs to be replaced by an agency that works for us, not industry!

By: Karin Kloosterman

Karin Kloosterman — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 06:33:09 +0000

I wonder how much meat glue goes into those perfectly rotund balls of meat called kebabs served in Israel. They are rubbery and don’t fall from the stick. Sounds like a case of meat glue to me. I bet it’s also used in formed burgers found in North America. More investigation is needed. What about handlers of the stuff? What if it isn’t allowed to sit the fixed amount of time needed to bond? Will it bond inside our bodies?

By: SARA

SARA — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:59:39 +0000

DOES ANYONE THINK THE FDA REALLY CARES???? THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!

THANKS KARIN & MICKEY FOR SETTING HAROLD STRAIGHT!