Posted on 11/22/2022 11:08:18 AM PST by Red Badger
A food processing plant belonging to one of the biggest faux meat companies is riddled with bacteria and food safety violations.
Internal documents and photos from the Beyond Meat plant in metro Philadelphia paint a picture of dangerous conditions with possible repercussions for consumers.
Bloomberg obtained the evidence from plant whistleblowers, publishing the findings in a Monday report.
A food safety attorney interviewed by Bloomberg indicated that the conditions at the plant were seriously unhygienic.
“If neat and tidy is one and filthy is 10, I’d put this at an eight,” attorney Bill Marler said of the plant.
A food processing plant belonging to one of the biggest faux meat companies is riddled with bacteria and food safety violations.
Internal documents and photos from the Beyond Meat plant in metro Philadelphia paint a picture of dangerous conditions with possible repercussions for consumers.
Bloomberg obtained the evidence from plant whistleblowers, publishing the findings in a Monday report.
A food safety attorney interviewed by Bloomberg indicated that the conditions at the plant were seriously unhygienic.
“If neat and tidy is one and filthy is 10, I’d put this at an eight,” attorney Bill Marler said of the plant.
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Purported photos from the faux meat plant — a 45-minute drive on the Pennsylvania Turnpike from Philadelphia — show mold growing on walls, as well as soiled containers used in food preparation.
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Official Photos and internal documents from a Beyond Meat plant in Pennsylvania show apparent mold, Listeria and other food-safety issues, compounding problems at a factory the company had expected to play a major role in its future https://trib.al/q1SAHYO
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Plant-based “meats” manufactured at the facility were found infected with the bacteria Listeria at least 11 different times since the second half of 2021, according to documents obtained by Bloomberg.
The food-borne infectious bacteria can cause illness for those who consume it, and it contains serious health risks for pregnant women, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
The FDA is yet to make a safety inspection of Beyond Meat’s Pennsylvania facility since the public company acquired the plant, according to Bloomberg.
Internal plant documents also suggested that inorganic materials like wood, string and metal had been found inside Beyond Meat products engineered at the facility.
In spite of this, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture “found no instances of nonconformance with regulations,” hailing Beyond Meat’s food safety protocols in reports that followed March and September plant visits, according to Bloomberg.
Beyond Meat declined to comment when questioned on the documents and photos by Bloomberg.
The company produces plant-based products made to resemble hamburger patties, sausages, and other staple meats.
Economic prospects for the faux meat industry have taken a turn for the worse in 2022, with demand for the chemically engineered meat alternatives failing to materialize as investors anticipated.
Proponents of fake meat point to it as an environmentally preferable alternative to the animal products that humans have consumed for thousands of years.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
Be sure to cook it throughly.🙄
In fairness it is beyond meat, so all that is legit.
Where’s Sinclair Lewis when you need him?
no one ever wants to see the fake sausage being made
smells like FTX
WOKE does not have to play by the rules
... or fake politics....................
You talking about Upton Sinclair?(and by extension, the book “The Jungle”?) Ultimately that would only result in is bigger and bigger government anyways.
As a slightly aside note, you may like this:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Everybody_s_Magazine/IoQDAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA608
“What is the truth about this Federal inspection? To put it into one sentence-again following Mr. Armour’s example by using italics-it is this: That the Federal inspection of meat was, historically, established at the packers’ request; that it is maintained and paid for by the people of the United States for the benefit of the packers; that men wearing the blue uniforms and brass buttons of the United States service are employed for the purpose of certifying to the nations of the civilized world that all the diseased and tainted meat which happens to come into existence in the United States of America is carefully sifted out and consumed by the American people.
This is a strong statement; and yet I might go even farther. I might say this also: that the laws regulating the inspection of meat were written by the packers, and written by the packers for the express purpose of making this whole condemned-meat industry impossible of prevention. The Federal inspectors have power to condemn meat, but they have no power to destroy it.”
(p. 612/612)
Sinclair is condemning progressivism in the strongest terms here. Sinclair was a “socialist’s socialist”, to use a phrase. He desperately wanted all meat processing to be nationalized and taken over by the federal government - to use the classic socialist rubric, Sinclair wanted government control over the means of (this) production. The quoted passage from his article makes that abundantly clear. It also makes clear that he hated the idea of regulation as conceived by progressives. He viewed excess administration and bureaucratic despotism as chicanery that favored “big meat” because it ended up leaving this specific means of production (meat packing/processing) in private hands which is illegal under socialist ideology.
Tks for fixing my post — I always mix up my “Sinclairs”.
Upton Sinclair was an idiot. Took his rather large payout from The Jungle (made about $30K, I’ve seen) and blew it on a utopian socialist — jews and blacks excluded, of course — community in New Jersey. When it burned down within a year, he tried to blame the Steel Trusts for it.
Btw, Sinclair Lewis was just another anti-establishment, anti-capitalist, only it was far more lucrative for him.
Among TR’s political stunts was to grab hold of “The Jungle” outrage and use it to force through the “Pure Food & Drug Act,” which federalized labeling content which, much to the meat packers’ delight, limited imported competition.
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