On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:19:43 -0400, Siobhan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>... USDA
>Gov't  Surplus Beef, given to low income people, is also of the same grade.
>Grading changed in the 1960's.  ...  This was in response to lobbying
efforts by the meat industry.  They
>were complaining that too much meat was being 'wasted'.

Ray Audette wrote:
>Hamburger, as a U.S.D.A. grade of meat, is different from the ground beef
> that you buy at your grocers.  Hamburger ...
> is added fat trimed from feed-lot cattle.

> Because added beef fat must be listed as "beef byproducts" on animal food
> labels, hamburger is not an approved grade of meat for commercial animal
> foods.

So, after all if it comes to cattle, Ray knows it.

Which parts McD ever makes the "lean meat" of is one story.
If there's really eyes, lips, tongues, ass or only pure ground steak in
shouldn't care a paleo. It's anyway the best meat quality, in many aspects.
And i think the rumors are wrong, they use muscles only. But...

.. they add other trimed feed-lot cattle fat.

How nice.
Not only because of w-3 fats...
Any wild game in the savannah had less than half the fat, the "foreign" beef
from McD had *before* they add more fat.

You can read it in many books about fat and heart diseases
this saturated fat bomb, enriched with all poisons of mass
industry-agriculture .. well,
happy munching...

Have you seen this of paleodiet?
http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?A2=ind0007&L=paleodiet&D=1&O=D&P=54
and
http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/CGI/wa.exe?A2=ind0007&L=paleodiet&D=1&O=D&P=432

Brain has 8% fat, btw.

Amadeus Schmidt
"Eat like naked in the savannah with a stick and a stone"