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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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Hot Karl!
Working from the IKEA food prep manual I see. I hope they check for rat turd and horse meat fillers.
People have to be fucking crazy to eat that shit in the first place, recall or not.
My kids used to like to eat that kind of processed shit until I started messing with their minds. Mouse pockets, spider pockets, turd pockets, finger pockets, bathtub drain soapy hairball pockets. You never can tell until you bite into one, Eat up. Not so fucking tasty now is it......??
gagging with laughter, that was great, thanks!
Not so hot pockets :(
I was wondering why I hadn't seen any stray cats lately.
I lived in Tokyo when I was 6 years old in 1947 and there were no cats or dogs anywhere. Go figure.
Plenty of rats though. Big mothers - I think they were called 'wharf rats'.
Bet the Chinese would cook the rats.
My Mother-in-Law swore that when the first Chinese restaurant moved into her neighborhood in the late '40's every stray animal disappeared.
This is no bullshit. I was just at the grocery store and I noticed the fat lady in front of me and her brood of overweight kids had their basket full of Hot Pockets on sale today. I noticed just because I have never eaten one, though I've heard they taste good. Anyways, these kids will be feasting on diseased animimal tissues tonight! As they say in Sweden "Smaklig Måltid!"
For some mysterious reason, the Hakarl Pockets marketed in Iceland, and the Surstromming Pockets manufactured in Sweden, have never really taken off anywhere outside of those countries
Hot Pockets DO NOT taste good, at least to me they don't.
Eight million pounds of meat represents a ginormous shitload of Hotpockets, given that there is only about a tenth of an ounce of meat in one Hot Pocket.
Take your choice, rodent meat or diseased/roadkill animals. It's an animal of some sort with spices added.
The FDA was too busy raiding backyard tomato gardens, Amish raw milk sellers, and little neighbor kids with cupcake stands. No corporate payola in those operations.
Just like in the movie, Idiocracy, "The FDA brought to you by Monsanto."
This went on for a year. List of toxic dump stores
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/0871ce45-1c81-4af8-99c5-e0d0d60...
Maybe someone's campaign contribution check bounced.
People still eat that shit?
This is very back-of-the-envelope but it gives a sense of the scale of this recall.
8.7 million pounds of meat. Assume about 2000 lbs. per steer. That's 4350 animals gone to waste at a time when the US cattle herd is at its smallest in 60 years. Of course, the crap meet they put in hot pockets is probably old Holstein dairy heifers that have outlived their productive milking lives, so we've already got some value out of them. But still, this is an horrendous waste. I'm sure a lot of people in this world would have been happy to have that meat, certified or not.
Factory food is bad "food". Total shit compared to making your own good food from as basic ingredients as you can find. Takes too much time to make real food? Then...eat shit you fooled consumer.
"Why do they dye the meat so red?"
"It's not dye. That's the natural color of an armadillo."
What the fuck is a hot pocket?
Sounds like vag to me.
....and just remember in the coming days...."Bankster....the other white meat".
LOL.
Well, the title did say "diseased and unsound animals!"
because it processed diseased and unsound animals and carried out these activities without the benefit or full benefit of federal inspection.
What's the difference between "benefit" and "full benefit". Without an inspection, what's to say these animals were diseased and unsound?
Manufacturers are foolish to poison their customers. But the government parasite has no reluctance to kill its host.
The one thing I didn't notice on the recallist was what we would call meat. Everything on the list was leftover parts, blood, heart, tongue, testicles, head, feet, tripe.
So that means that the meat in Hot Pockets isn't made from muscle tissue. I guess the meatball Hot Pocket is popular in Colorado though since it's probably made from rocky mountain oysters.
The thing is if you mention the parts a Hot Pocket is made from to a Japanese or Chinese person they would say what's the big deal. Having sat through many Japanese and Chinese dinners I almost don't want to eat again. Four courses of cow stomach and intenstine can do that do you.
OMFG!!! Soylent Green is made of PEOPLE!!!
HAAHAH - younster.
Now how am I supposed to get my daily allotment of wood pulp—eat some tree bark?
Soylent Green is people??????
at 8 million pounds i can guarantee that there's at least a few humans in there someplace.
dead finks dont talk but they are a free source of protein. dead circus animals
would be another intelligfent guess. no wonder vegetarians live longer.
another gift from the tribe, yum!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merage_family
Basically if you are a living human being you should stay away from Hot Pockets.
Before pulling up and reading this article, I ate my usual lunch of two sliced Tofurky sandwiches on organic whole wheat bread, with lentil salad. As I ate it, I thought somewhat sadly, "what a dreary little vegan meal, oh well." But now I feel great about that meal!!!!!!!!!! Thanks ZH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Send that stank to Moochelle at 1600 Penn Ave
Say Barry, honey boopkins, doesn't this pate taste like Rod Blagegovitch?
Why yes, yes it does snookems. Wasn't this a gift from Nancy? I shall have to ask her where she got it.
... Um, snookems... how did you know what Rod tastes like?
HotPocket = MtGoxBTC
That's all you need to know, ZH doesn't have the balls here, but the mystery meat in question used to Create BTC was 100% bullshit.
Just change MtGoxBTC for hot-pocket and then this POST makes sense.
So when I vomit, to which federal agency do I send it?
Washington has legal weed and rancid hot pockets....
Fellow smokers in Washington state...be careful when the munchies hit...
Time for some Bankster Pockets.
You have to stop eating if you want to avoid the poisoned food.
Find a local CSA or grow your own. Like anything else, if you want something done right ...
Should rename "Hot Pockets" to 'Ham Wallets" to cover their losses.
I haven't had a hot pocket in years. Good to know I haven't eaten any with this news.
I haven't had a hot pocket in years. Good to know I haven't eaten any with this news.
Everybody MISSED the big story in this (but fortunately, I am here) ... to wit, THIS:
Forget Hot Pockets—how did the US miss 8.7 million pounds of diseased beef in the first place?http://qz.com/178787/forget-hot-pockets-how-did-the-us-government-miss-8...
"So far no one’s reported any actual illnesses after consuming the beef.
That’s especially weird given that the recall is for every ounce of beef that Rancho Feeding processed in 2013, all 8.7 million pounds of it. Companies like Rancho Feeding are supposed to have not one but two USDA inspectors.
So how did Rancho Feeding kill cattle for 371 days without any? It may well be Rancho Feeding’s fault. Then again, by the USDA’s own admission (pdf) in June 2013, the FSIS’s staff is overworked and often undertrained."
What the fuck do you expect when the USDA basically allows meat plants do their own inspections???
"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."
Sounds like they got caught to me. My guess is this happened during the govt showdown where there were little or no inspectors????
The company should knowingly, on its own, only sell meat that is fit for consumtion. It should have its own inspectors. The problem is the govt NEVER penalizes this behavior really. If the govt does not check it they do what they want, regardless of the downstream consequences. Such is the greed for profit at any level. Take away their license to sell in the US and watch the others fall in line. The govt never lays a heavy hand on obvious misdeeds nor even lays a heavy hand on repeated over time misdeeds where its obvious the company has been warned. Put a few out of business by revoking their business charter (hey!! AG at XX state --- pay attention here - do your job) and this will stop immediately.
"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."
Sounds like they got caught to me. My guess is this happened during the govt showdown where there were little or no inspectors????
The company should knowingly, on its own, only sell meat that is fit for consumtion. It should have its own inspectors. The problem is the govt NEVER penalizes this behavior really. If the govt does not check it they do what they want, regardless of the downstream consequences. Such is the greed for profit at any level. Take away their license to sell in the US and watch the others fall in line. The govt never lays a heavy hand on obvious misdeeds nor even lays a heavy hand on repeated over time misdeeds where its obvious the company has been warned. Put a few out of business by revoking their business charter (hey!! AG at XX state --- pay attention here - do your job) and this will stop immediately.
Actually, the USDA is staffed with meat industry insiders who shift between private and public service, ensuring the govt always does what the meat industry wants. The regulations aren't very strict and aren't very strictly enforced, since there aren't enough inspectors and the folks in charge work for the people they regulate. Good luck with safe food!
Well said...
Regulatory capture by corporate interests in a highly evolved form...
Rancho Feeding Corp will now be bought out by Soylent Green company, and call itself "Food,Inc"
Or the Chinamen, who just bought Smithfield.
My Hot Pocket just whinnied.
Scared the crap out of the cat.
Don't admit that! They'll come, scoop it up, and feed it back to you!
Wait-what? Why is it when I don't follow Federal Guidelines, I can go to jail, lose everything I own, and get spanked with a chainmail glove with fishhooks welded to it-but the food industry has the option of a VOLUNTARY recall? (that's right-food recalls are voluntary)
If I dont' follow the rules, I get raped. The last time we had an outbreak, I think it was salmonella or E. Coli infected vegetables, they didn't want to name the responsible company to protect them!
Prion diseases; We shouldn't worry about that crap. Just eat it.. stop your complaining.
Prion diseases; We shouldn't worry about that crap. Just eat it.. stop your complaining.
It's not too late to back these into a cryptocurrency & call 'em DeadCowCoinz or CoinPocketz.
Unlike barbaric money like gold, this new-fangled currency transcends fundamentals and will acquire value by sheer panic, confusion & LULZ.