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Hot Pockets Recalls 8 Million Pounds Of Meat Due To "Diseased & Unsound Animals"
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Last year saw a great number of widely publicized instances of food fraud and general nastiness when it came to the various items many of us regularly put in our bodies. From “fake tuna,” to rat meat in the streets of Shanghai, to alcohol in New Jersey diluted with “river water,” the list was seemingly endless.
While 2014 has been off to a slow start, it appears the corporate food industry in America is trying to make up for lost time. According to a news release from the USDA on Valentine’s Day titled: “California Firm Recalls Unwholesome Meat Products Produced Without the Benefit of Full Inspection,” we discover that:
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2014 – Rancho Feeding Corporation, a Petaluma, Calif. establishment, is recalling approximately 8,742,700 pounds, because it processed diseased and unsound animals and carried out these activities without the benefit or full benefit of federal inspection. Thus, the products are adulterated, because they are unsound, unwholesome or otherwise are unfit for human food and must be removed from commerce, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
Oh, and by the way, this is a Class I recall. What does that mean?
Basically if you live California, Florida, Illinois, Oregon, Texas and Washington you should stay away from Hot Pockets.
Scratch that. You should stay away from Hot Pockets no matter where you live. Forever.
Full USDA release here.
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it would help if they could explain what "diseases" were at play here
short hotpockets
long mama celeste frozen pizzas
MOM?!?!?!?!
Hot pockets are the food of Lazy fat asses, I have eaten some before when I was younger out of convenience but luckily I stopped consuming at an early age sensing that it wasnt healthy.
No wonder so many Americans have no logic or any sense of knowledge these days....it takes 5 years of eating hot pockets for the symptoms to finally manifest itself in the human brain and now America is just so dumbed out and numb that he or she wouldnt know if someone had their hands up their asses.
Soon there will not be enough animals in this world to feed the overpopulating human race and we may just turn cannibalistic and wouldnt even know it.
this is scripted, as in moar federal control. some one has to manage the gene pool. pockets was on the right track
Today we call them lack of freezer animals and blame it on the weather.
How the fuck do I play WoW now?
I suppose we better just learn to live with this. With no sign of population growth abating, eventually only the rich will be able to afford nutritionally sound food, naturally raised.
Enjoy your synthetic meat substitute:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/aug/05/synthetic-meat-burger-ste...
The politicians are diseased and unsound animals but the public is incapable of recalling them.
"Rancho Feeding Corporation"
I thought this was the company that owned Golden Corral?
Simply place a cheap "R" sticker over the "H" on the Hot Pocket packaging and you are pretty much good to go.
It'll save them millions over the recall...
The next "smiley face" discount special at Wal-Mart.
The Walmartians will SNAP them up.
This is bad news... fonestar can only hope that the 'Star Trek' tapes weren't compromised...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MEZ0UBhuxU
There's meat in Hot Pockets? I thought it was like those 'beef' burritos that whinnied when you microwaved them. Frankly if you're eating shit that comes in a plastic pouch, costs $.99, and HAS to be microwaved to be edible, you deserve every mouthful...
All NONSENSE. Just the same old game: make prices go up--use what ever excuse necessary, this time, diseased livestock? Sigh.
Yummy!
Next stop for this: Ballpark.
If it cant pass ball park specs, Purina.
Or maybe I have that backwards, Purina, Ballpark, Hot Pocket?
pods
Bits are falling fast!!
Like tits out of a bra fast?
Normally Hot Pockets cause nausea, vomiting and explosive diarrhea. How much worse could it get?
In best case we get the population reduction the elites envision.
turn them into brown slime.
What do you mean no sign of population growth abating? Did the last 6 years of population decline in Japan, the evaporation of Russia, the sub-replacement fertility rates in all of Europe and North America, the ageing of China ravaged by the one-child policy, and the 1.7 TFR in Iran, Tunisia, and throughout the Mahgreb, somehow pass below your radar screen?
All true for the places you mention but world-wide the overall population continues to increase sharply.
Well, I don't think people in sub-Saharan Africa are competing directly with us for food supplies; but considering what a hellhole of disease and warfare that place is, I think that once the Western aid dries up that population growth will inevitably reverse as well.
They hate us for our Hot Pockets.
When it comes to store bought meat, I just say no.
I trap my meat. Traps last for years, work 24/7, don't run out of ammunition, don't require bait and are silent.
Learn To Trap
(except for the screams of the animals).
lol. Really?
Check out what a modern cable snare does to a trapped animal. Notice how he's in agony and screaming.
http://youtu.be/_yidRsc7rvs
You should subscribe to my channel. I have over a hundred videos where I catch animals. Funny thing, not a single one is screaming or suffering in any way.
Wild animals do their best to hide their pain; there is selection pressure for that behavior.
That said, at least a trapped or hunted animal gets to live a real life before being eaten, unlike a factory-farmed animal. I'll pass on them all, though, thanks.
Please explain to me how a 3/32" aircraft cable restraint with a relaxing lock causes pain in an animal. Do you even know what one is or how it works?
My father trapped during the 1950s; he came from a poor family, and it was a way to make some money. He's told me that age 12, he stood looking at an animal dying in a trap and thought "this is horrible. there has got to be a better way to make money." We still have his old traps; they are rusty and not really usable anymore.
I'm very glad that the technology has improved. Of course, not everyone is going to use your sort of technology, with your level of skill. In fact, I bet that most people, being idiots, will use badly made and designed traps, set them badly, botch it and cause a lot of suffering. What one can achieve, with intelligence and technology, is not what the average moron achieves. Well, animals in factory farms suffer too; so do animals in slaughterhouses. Like I said, I don't think what you are doing, is any less humane than almost any other source of animal flesh; in your case it is likely more humane.
The thing is, you don't actually have to eat animals. It is optional. You can just leave them alone. They have their own hopes, fears, preferences, beliefs, desires, attachments, and mates waiting for them. In the bible, the ideal presented is the Garden of Eden, where no animals were eaten or even used for milk. It is possible to approximate the biblical ideal now; all it takes are a few dietary supplements.
tenpanhandle; One of life's sole remaining virgins in the 'ways of the world' ...
Diarrhea Pockets. Enjoy your next NASCAR race.
Now what are me and the missus gonna eat on Easter Sunday, Lordy
Asian Markets. Bao is what hot pockets wish they could be.
JP MORGUE LONG Death Derivatives !
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "mystery meat."
Now we know what happened to all those Shanghai river pigs.
Adrift on brown waves
Then floats into US mouths
Garbage meets garbage
Ok they got caught but how long has this crap been in this crap
I tried to eat part of one of those things about 15 years ago. I'd say Hot Pockets have been polluted at least that long.
I've never eaten a Snot Pocket myself, but I have occasionally smelled them as somebody warmed one up in the microwave in the gas station/junk food emporium as I was paying for my gas (with cash, of course). The smell alone was enough to deter me permanently from even contemplating putting such filth into my system.
what's with all the hot pocket hate on here? Meat (some form) cheese and bread for like a buck while you are on a road trip and all of the sudden we turn into this guy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxuwXczWQC0
Or you take can take... you know... real bread and cheese that tastes good and doesn't need heating.
how do you do that when you are traveling on a road trip? You stop, pick up a 12 pack and some hot pockets and get back in the car and prepare for the farting contest. Good luck in a farting contest with real food.
Fonzannoon, please allow me to introduce you to broccoli, pears, dried apricots, hard-boiled eggs and the bean.
That's just unfair. Everyone knows you never go on a road trip with anyone who brings their own broccoli.
those are not my junks but if they help me win a farting contest debate i'll take em
Come on Fonz, what we are really talking about is high people.
Like, all I can do is hit 1 button on the microwave high.
That kind of high. Not as high as Johnny-Cash-eating-cake-in-a-bush-high, but really high.
http://9buz.com/you-may-be-high-but-youll-never-be-johnny-cash-eating-ca...
pods
Nice pic, LOL
I got to get my lazy ass going on a submission so I might post some pics (until that priviledge is promptly revoked).
pods
Best 4.5 minutes ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-i9GXbptog
don't forget the dreaded durian
Curses be upon it!
"you guys ready to hit the road?"
"Yep, i brought the broccoli"
"GTFO of the car!" (doors slam and car peels out with broccoli guy standing there)
I'll bring the Genny Cream Ale and kill all y'all!
(that is what actually put Kodak out of business, no lie)
pods
can you give me the short version of how that happened?
Okay, the story goes like this. I heard it second hand because nobody will admit to taking down that great american icon.
So, the new craze in the wintertime in upstate was dart leagues at the time of the demise. The guys from Kodak loved their darts. The leagues started out one night at first. Then twice a week, and 3 nights a week at the end.
Well, rumor has it that one of the big wigs at Polaroid had a brother in law who was a Genny distributor. They hatched up a plan to have Genny Cream Ale specials on dart nights, and the next morning saw mass evacuations of building after building on the Kodak campus.
They simply could not withstand that kind of lost time and went out of business, much to the delight of the Polaroid guy.
The Genny Screamer killed Kodak.
pods
can I pass that on and embellish it? I feel like that story should be passed along and embellished.
If you can work in "and that's why you cannot eat fish out of the Genesee river" that might be a start?
pods
ROTFLMAO! (wiping off tears)
Smart boy. Frankly I think this recall is a bit pointless to me because all animals raised in CAFO operations are ALL diseased. Considering 70% of all antibiotics are used in farm animals, the bacteria they carry are notoriously resistant to major classes of these drugs. If people would see how animals are slaughtered in cattle yards and the fecal spray on everything it may give them pause. Then again, looking at the average American, may be not.
Miffed;-)
it takes me 3 1/2 weeks to get over a cold now. same for everyone i know. 20 years of eating food stuffed with antibiotics and i'm 37 and healthy and a bad cold will be the end of me. amazing.
Cold is a virus. I usually go years without one. Pick a target, someone who has a cold but not looking destroyed.
Hang out with that person.
Get the cold, get it done & over with.
Be good for another 3 to 7 years.
Antibiotics do not work on a virus & there is no cure for the virus that causes a cold.
Oh well, Miffed, you know the old adage:
I think that is about the most comically disturbing thing I have ever read akak.
pods
Hahahaha! I logged in just to say that made me laugh.
That was one of the few that I looked at and then went back again and laughed my ass off even harder at.
Me too. I just went back and started reading this thread again. I have laughed so hard. I like Hot Pockets (or I used to before this thread).
I tried. I made my case. Can't win em all.
Screeching away leaving the brocolli guy just standing there was my favorite part. I hate brocolli.
Then I remembered your story of going to get a sandwich or salad or whatever and leaving it in the deli, and that cracked me up all over again.
And THEN I remembered somebody posted the story about their friend who said, "Are you driving? I took three hits of acid and I can't tell if you're driving or I'm driving."
Now I can't stop lauging.
This poop joke is missing a roadside.
Fonestar the biggest Gox sucker on ZH.
The riots going down right now in front of MT-GOX HQ are bigger and uglier than anything on earth, why is ZH not have the balls to POST?
Funny ZH pumped the BITCOIN bitch all the way to the moon, but on its collapse they are fucking silent.
Of course we know that btc mining and exchanges are all TYLERS,... their fucking terrified of the coming lawsuits all in USD, nobody is going to SUE for BTC having no value.
MT-GOX was always non-liquid, but now they have completely quit any attempt to return customer money. The folks near mt-gox in JAPAN want their life savings back, there will be many dead bodys, this is YAKUZA.
Basically if you live California, Florida, Illinois, Oregon, Texas and Washington you should stay away from Hot Pockets.
Basically if you are alive and breathing you should stay away from Hot Pockets. Although the BBQ...
That's sort of the problem. They didn't do autopsies on the downers they turned them into food before they died.
thats right
trade one nasty frozen crap cake for another
'murica
fuck yah
1 heat source + 1 pan + A small dab of butter + 2 slices of bread + a couple of slices of block cheese = pan-grilled cheese heaven. Tapatio optional but recommended.
Small dab of butter? That's crazy talk.
Gaffigan was right!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-i9GXbptog
A chicken Mc. Nugget is about 40% chicken and the rest is shit that glues everything together. I won't guess what the other 60% is, but I would say it is every other part of the chicken, including what it shits!
So why is anyone suprised when something as disgusting as the name "Hot Pockets" has a jizz load of hot crapo whapo in it?
Any one up for rat and donkey meat? According to the meat industry, if its meat its meat. Which means pink slime burgers are as good as free range Rib Eye.
Next up on the menu Americana. Soilet Green. Anyone remember that one?
"...jizz load of hot crapo whapo..."
Well, that makes me want to head to the fridge and grab a frozen box of Soylent Stoffers.
I thought "Hot Pockets" referred to small armed mooslim drone targets.
The magic of industrialized food production. We all gotta have it.....when we want it......in the shortest amount of distance to drive to it.......with the least amount of time to prepare it.......and at the cheapest possible cost.
At this point.....I'd rather have a Hot Pocket made of Soylent Green. At least a lot of humans in their office cublicles... ( stalls ) .... keep themselves in pretty good shape down at the local gym.
Although I wouldn't want to find myself picking out any leftover silicone in my teeth.
Get real already. Food supply is/has been compromised for slowly creeping decades. IF you are idiot enough to eat any of this garbage then?
Enough garbage jokes about it. When a society gives GMO power; when life lives in cages of torture in order to make McNuggets and pressed, soy formed chicken products; when a shameful % of the population is living on food welfare that is being redeemed at corporate fast food/no nutrition outlets???
Give me a break USA. There has come a time to quit making these idiotic jokes and to do something. Corporations are people???the lunacy of this.
I am absolutely running out of adjectives that apply; to how disgusted I am with the USA.
So is the rest of the world.
Don't worry. It's only the government, the financial and social elite, and about 60% of the population that are, broadly speaking, worthless. Eveything else in the States is pretty good.
LET THEM EAT CAKE!
Mmmm.... Cake....
guess who wants cake!
ANOTHER IDIOT CHIMES IN.
In all kindness please enjoy your future life that is given to you; enjoy as a caged and diseased chicken. Enjoy as a murdered, sentient mammal murdered for "bigger penis" tusks.
Your lack of any sense of how stupid your remark is . Beyond idiot. Think you are funny and cute?
Make mine ptomaine...
AND ONE MORE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQSRB_feUJ8&
hot pocket
The act of shitting inside a fold-out couch and then re-closing it, leaving it for an unsuspecting guest. (see similar terms: "upper-decker", "mexican waffle", "trunk muffin")
Fuck...The Kraken is so much better when not nostrilized...(you funny bastard).
Ewww
Hot Pockets are fit for my ex wife's son, and that's about it. I'd not feed them to a hungry stray dog. The garbage people willingly choke down is astounding. But Corporate America pukes the shit out and the sheep hork it down.
"hork it down"
I may have found my new word for the week, thanks
http://www.movieweb.com/movie/ratatouille/hork-it-down
I might abandon my moniker and re-incarnate as HorkItDown. Thoughts?
HorkItDownthenHurlItUp
Hork-N-Hurl a new fast food franchise.
Hmm, what for menu items?
Hork-N-Hurl: Jerk Pork (now made from REAL Jerk!)
A "Mad Cow Downer" burger enriched with brown slime (rendered from politicians) on a GMO Monsanto sesame seed bun.
Haggis on a stick.
THE THIRST MUTILATOR!!
"Hork Pockets!"
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
I'm safe till Stouffer's shows up in the news. Had two stuffed bell peppers for lunch. Never have bought a Hot Pocket.
Confucius says:
DO NOT EAT ANYTHING THAT COMES IN A BOX.
The only Hot Pocket I like is my wife's.
Your wife's hot pocket is OK...I've had better.
as long as you dont microwave it to long, you can use it the same way
thanks American Pie!
one time, in band camp....
You clearly have never had a Hot Pocket. It would burn your pecker right off.
@ Mayhem,
Don't you mean brown (Anal) Male Pockets?
BaZing!
What about Eggos?
You might as well eat a waffle shoe sole.
They're coming out with new blue waffles.
For delivery to lemon parties.
"Produced Without the Benefit of Full Inspection". Oh no, meat without government benediction.
Does seem a little strange doesn't it.
What happened? Are they telling us that the slaughter house worked on 7MM pounds of meat and the FEDS just weren't invited for that week/month?
I know someone with a commercial kitchen which less than 1/10 the size of this slaughterhouse, and there 2-3 FDA employess who report for work everyday at the commercial kitchen's location.
Where's the Beef?
Where the BSE prions are.
I stay away from Hot Pockets (of trash), and most other highly processed foods anyways.
And 'Murikans wonder why they're so fat and sickly.
Today I witnessed an obese lady barely able to get out of an SUV while a cigarette hung from her lips.
Today I witnessed an obese lady barely able to get out of an SUV while a cigarette hung from her lips.
Once she keels, they'll grind her up to stuff the Hot Pockets. It's the circle of life.
Hot Pocket- It's People!!!!!
Were you in a Wal-Mart parking lot when you saw that lady? :)
Actually, yes I was. How did you know?
The other day I came to my car after purchasing dog food to find a massively obese woman waiting for me. She was extremely angry with me because I had parked too close to her car and she couldn't get in. I apologized profusely until I noticed both of our cars were perfectly in the parking lines. Then I noticed on her passenger side, there was no car and she couldn't even crawl over to the drivers side. Well,that pissed me off and I said may be she should consider losing 200 lbs and not face such a problem again. She got in my face and said " Listen lady, I did you a favor. I was going to ram myself in and scratch the hell out of your car. Instead I waited for you. You are the one that should be thanking ME!" She won the argument. I had nothing to say. So my solution is to now park significantly away from any store thereby eliminating the possibility a land whale parking near me. 10 steps to any locale seems to be the maximum they will tolerate.
Miffed;-)
I'm honestly surprised she didn't have a handicapped tag.
I always park in the last spot. I can get in and out of a store (even with the walk) faster than the land whales can find a parking spot.
Sometimes the best solution is a quick punch to the throat(s).
This was the best comment on the entire thread. LOL.
WTF is 'unsound'? Stop beating around the bush, assholes.
Also, this is apparently what gives hot pockets that flavor:
Oh you know, maybe some mad cow prions? "Prion Pockets"
You want to know what is in Hot Pockets. Google "pizzles". Go ahead - I dare you.
LULz.
NEW Bachelor Chow, now with Pizzles'n'Bits!
Hot Pocket Money then
they use actual meat?
This nation is currently being led by a bunch of unwholesome meat products dressed in suits. Where is the outrage and recall........??
Mystery meat in a box? In a frozen pocket? Unsound by nature, might as well eat the TV instead of the dinner.
Maybe the Nobel Prize winner can drone his enemies with hot pockets - they are probably more lethal. McCain did not distribute hot pockets at the Maidan in Kiev?
Aside from not being able to take a shit for a week, what other benefit would entice someone to ever consider buying this processed fucking crap?
Foul, disgusting food choice.
Since it's illegal to test for BSE, I guess we can rule that out.
Long victory gardens!
I was at a ASM conference and went to a talk with an Irish research specializing in BSE. Someone in the audience made a comment it had no relevance to us because the USA is free of BSE. The guy started laughing to hard he could barely contain himself. Kind of gave me goose bumps. The only argument against testing is a good one. Any lab engaging in it will quickly become so contaminated any future testing would have a high likelihood of false positives.
Miffed;-)
I dont eat meat. I eat pancakes
"Horse Pockets"?????
With the price of beef about to catch up with silver even a diseased cow is too valuable to not use.
I always thought those went to your FF joints.
Can we recall congress? They fit the description of diseased and unsound animals.
I had to look up the website to see what these things are,
now, i'm all for healthy eating an all, paleo etc,
but those things must be flippin irresistable when yer p1ssed:)
What? I am shocked hot pockets are not good wholesome food? I am shocked!
the only hot pocket I know or get near is the type that gets moist when you pet it. that type, I try to get my daily dose of