Jeane=Claude;  thank you for reminding us of the broader mission that is
involved here without reducing it to a silly "them darn peta people" rant.
I am amazed at the consistent wisdom in your posts.
Rick
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From: "Ingrid Bauer/J-C Catry" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 8:44 PM
Subject: Re: [P-F] dehydrating meat


> ;
> >
> >I just got a food dehydrator and I'm eager to dehydrate meat. I would
like
> >to use ground meat, because it's cheap and it has some fat which I need
for
> >the calories. In all the recipes/instructions I find, there's no mention
of
> >ground meat, in fact everything I read says to use ONLY lean meat.
> >
> >My questions for this list are:
> >
> >1. Is it possilbe to dehydrate ground meat? Any suggestions how?
> >2. Is it SAFE (in terms of bacteria/parasites) to dry ground meat or ANY
> >meat without cooking first? I'm very particular about this because I am
> >recovering from an auto-immune disease. My immune system is weak and I've
> >had problems with intestinal infections. I always wash raw foods
carefully.
>
>
> it is not a good idea to store Dried ground meats because of the oxydation
> of fats .
> when the cells of foods are broken down ( thawing frozen meats  , cooking
,
> grinding ) .The content of the cells are reacting to each other creating
new
> coumpounds not present in the whole cells . the taste is different and the
> nourishing quality of the food can be questionned .
> From my point of view of a person with autoimmune tendancies ,this
creation
> of potentially triggering molecules is way more of a concern than the
> ingestion of bacterias,  parasites ( this critters are demonstrating
> themselves as maybe of utmost importance  for the organism to establish a
> healthy balanced immune system ) more and more research seems to reveal
> that.
>
> a comment about the concern for cheap food .
> The race to produce cheap food  since the industrial revolution brought us
> to that non sense situation where the health of humans and the environment
> is going down the toilet.
> From over 80 % of food producing peoples we end up to a 5 % or even less ,
> The rest being busy reaping the earth of other ressources to produces more
> material  things that one can appreciate , then more services than one can
> benefit from, to care for the diseases  or to fill the emptiness , of
living
> removed from the  nourishing earth  .
> that is the aim of this economy to gather in few hands what was  a given
to
> everybody  .
>  The inconscious desire to get a good deal out of this unfair
> system of exchanges , is exactely what is   maintaining  that system
> ( making you a good consumer)
> By boycotting the industry of producing cheap ground meat and asking
farmers
> for high standard of quality,  may be there is a chance to stop the
downward
> spiral of unhealthy life styles for you ,the farmers ,  the  animals .and
> the plants they eat.
>
> jean-claude