It just goes to show you, if you want something done right, do it yourself. Don't be lazy, get off your @ss and do the work, be it sourcing good beef from a local, partner up with a few friends, go in on shares, or raise your own, personally, I won't deal with this crap, supermarket beef is something rarely bought in this house.
Besides the glue,(is it harmful or not) the point is, misrepresentation, are you getting 1 piece of meat, that you can cook like a steak or are you getting large chunk hamburger, that you think is steak, that you might grill, treat like steak and get nailed by bacteria or what have you, because it was not cooked through or treated like ground meat, because its label says steak. People "messin" with your food, I'd not want to be in your shoes if you sold me that and told me it was something different than it was, about the same as playing russian roulette with bacteria, highly disrespectful and to me that is the same as facing a combatant in a life or death situation, biologically, but the same in principle !
I assume this video originates from Australia ?
Don't matter, do the above, grow what you can in your garden, go to a farmers market and so on, who needs this mass produced garbage, especially when there is a resurgence of farmers markets, locally grown produce, livestock, sold in townships, and cities, both happen here and are the same distance as the darned supermarket! Heck, I have a beautiful farm stand near me, family owned, one of them own property adjacent, farmers market on Saturday in the town, and in the nearby city which is nice to go to. Near the other farm 30 miles north of here on the same road a local farmer has a tiny little store in an attached building, dairy and meats, locally grown, packaged, self serve, honor system, he leaves a till drawer, make your own change, camera is on ya tho, probably shoot you before you got off the premises if you stole, I think its awesome we have these things available to us, we did not before, what does that say about what people want ? Great thing is I can hit that place on the way home, kind of hidden and obscure, but I have met people coming over 30 miles to buy from them !
Problem is supermarkets make it too easy, and years back, we had an old school butcher who opened a shop, brand new building, he spent his life savings on it, rented half of the building out, offered the best quality meat you could buy, and one lousy supermarket right down the road put him out,of course there could have been other factors too, as I think now, but he did not give up, sold the building moved further out in the rural area, son followed in his footsteps, they have a meat locker, cutting area set up like a pro and butcher deer seasonally, and provide a good service for those who bring beef to him.
We do have some great local butcher shops again now though, and also a few that will process your venison, reasonably, with quality ingredients. Hot dogs, (frankfurters)are supposed to be made with the best meat, not filler by products, the butcher that makes them for me from venison adds pork, resulting in the best tasting dog, vacuum packed, $3 something a pound, bring him 15 pounds of venison, you get 30lbs of dogs for $60, better than any mass produced store bought dogs. Same with sausage. Maybe its not perfect, venison a little different than beef, but the easiest way for me to fill a freezer is filling all my tags, butcher each one immediately and freeze, there is my red meat for a year, and if for some reason it goes to waste, or I don't consume all of it, the deer are to the nuisance level. I do plant forage, they seem to finish nicely, I see what its in the stomach contents, grasses like oats that I have planted. I don't have to mend fences, have vet bill, worry about hay or feed. That source gets tainted, then I'd have to raise my own or buy from a local, either or, that eliminates this crap the way I see it.
People have to change their mentality and do the darned work.
The thing with vegans, as mentioned below, ah well, some are a little odd, some are sensible and there is a lot of health benefit, we have one in the family, but she's not an extremist, and will delve in other things because life is also too short not too, its more about being health conscious, within reason, some take it to a whole other level, into such orthodox manners about it, hard to comprehend living like that. If I could grow fresh produce year round, I would consume lots of it, who the heck can trust what you get in the store, red bell pepper, 13 different pesticide/herbicide, what about greens contaminated with salmonella or e-coli, you never know when the next batch of that comes out and where, I won't buy the stuff. This business model of mass produced food, with these now inherent risks, to me is broken and dysfunctional !
Farmers Markets, butcher shops, and similar have circumnavigated the garbage that can be found in a supermarket, just like craft beer did to mass produced brewers, they took high notice didn't they ? Many people don't want that crap anymore, some of the older generations are so used to it, they balk at it, don't give me any of that "funny beer", friends mom is like that, because that is all there was. Well its proven out, craft brewing is thriving right now, people will spend money on it to enjoy it at home, and not let a watering hole dictate what you can have and charge you double for it.
People need to wake up, you can put what you want on the table if you want to do the work, gee we see it all the time here, all the gardens and canning, sets a perfect example and is something I admire, also you can tell how proud people are of what they produce, that is what this country used to be about !!!!!!!!
