Do you know what your eating?
... and New Zealand have quotas. A quota in this case is how much of their beef can be imported. Australia’s quota is 378,000 metric tons, and New Zealand’s quota is 213,000 metric tons. Fast food chains need lean beef. So they buy lean beef with about ten percent fat and mix it with byproducts of packing plants, thus results in fat content of ground beef. McDonald’s is the biggest buyer of both Aussie and United States beef. McDonald’s is experimenting with 400 of its 13,000 restaurants with imported beef. While we are on the topic of importing beef, here are some of the regulations it must pass. Imported beef for human or animal consumption must be de-boned. It must have lymphatic and nerve tissue removed. Animals must have an antemorteme inspection. This means that they have no diseases and are inspected after there killed and slaughtered. The last one is that they must be obtained from a country in which BSE has not been reported during a time period when that country permitted use of ruminant MBM in ruminant feed. BSE stands for Bovine Spongiform Encephatopathy also known as “mad cow disease.” This mean’s that any country that has or has had mod cow disease cannot import their beef into the United States. Today’s government scientists have developed a new device t...