The poor deserve more than 'nearly meat' burgers

Even before I became a sissy, whiny vegetarian, a friend told me about his stint working in a burger-processing plant. He and his co-workers were instructed to remove, and I quote, "every last bit of crap" from carcasses for processing. Less officially, stray meat particles would be swept up from the floor, or scraped from their boots, straight into the vats. A committed meat eater, my friend said that he hadn't eaten a burger since.

I was reminded of this when I read about the imminent EU directive concerning "desinewed meat" (DSM). This is a process of removing the flesh from carcasses, which is deemed more suitable than mechanically separated meat (MSM), at least for beef and lamb, since it's considered less likely to spread diseases such as BSE. Read full article at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/08/barbara-ellen-eu-ban-poor-meat