"Most American consumers may not know what BPI[R] (Beef Products Inc.) Boneless Lean Beef Trimmings are, but this lean, low-fat, and flavorful ingredient is key in producing a range of lean, high-quality, cost-effective products millions of American consumers enjoy every day including fresh and frozen hamburger patties, taco meats, low-fat hot dogs, beef stick snacks, and sausage, just to mention a few. BPI[R] Boneless Lean Beef Trimmings are found in most ground beef made in the United States."//allbusiness
"To make a long story short: Beef Products buys the cheapest, least desirable beef on offer—fatty sweepings from the slaughterhouse floor, which are notoriously rife with pathogens like E. coli 0157 and antibiotic-resistant salmonella. It sends the scraps through a series of machines, grinds them into a paste, separates out the fat, and laces the substance with ammonia to kill pathogens."//grist"Mechanically deboned poultry and this ammonia treated beef are processes that increase the amount of meat for people to eat without increasing the number of animals that are killed."//scienceblogs
"Half the water consumed in the U. S. goes to irrigate land growing feed and fodder for livestock. Huge amounts of water are also used to wash away their excrement.
U. S. livestock produce twenty times as much excrement as does the entire human population, creating sewage which is ten to several hundred times more concentrated than raw domestic sewage.
Animal wastes cause ten times more water pollution than does the U. S. human population; the meat industry causes three times as much harmful organic water pollution than the rest of the nation's industries combined."//chow
