According to the Times, last year an estimated 5.5 million
pounds of the ammonia - treated beef was used in the National School Lunch Program, in part because — big surprise — it's cheaper than other ground beef.
Saying the smoke wasn't packed with too many particulates and that the thousands of
pounds of ammonia gas that once graced Central Warehouse (a former refrigeration and dry storage facility) had been drained by its circa 2000 owners.
Not exact matches
What does trouble me is BPI's use
of a raw material which by its very nature is highly pathogenic, such that we all might be endangered in the case
of human error (as when BPI's
ammonia system stopped working for sixty seconds in 2009, leading to 26,000 +
pounds of infected meat)(http://nyti.ms/56MIYK) or a new strain
of E coli — not part
of BPI's admirably advanced testing protocol — emerges (as one did in Germany last summer, killing 345 and sickening 3,700 +.)
And from the NY Times: In early 2003, officials in Georgia returned nearly 7,000
pounds to Beef Products after cooks who were making meatloaf for state prisoners detected a «very strong odor
of ammonia» in 60 -
pound blocks
of the trimmings, state records show.
Search the NY Times for this gem: «In early 2003, officials in Georgia returned nearly 7,000
pounds to Beef Products after cooks who were making meatloaf for state prisoners detected a «very strong odor
of ammonia» in 60 -
pound blocks
of the trimmings, state records show.»
Meanwhile, researchers were showing that besides soil and water contamination, hog CAFOs emit high volumes
of the potent greenhouse gas methane (
pound for
pound, hog manure produces twice the methane
of cattle manure) and
ammonia, which has been linked to respiratory ailments.