{"id":198365,"date":"2007-11-14T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/14\/ag-department-approves-treatment-to-make-meat-look-good-long-after-it-is-rotten\/"},"modified":"2007-11-14T14:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T19:49:00","slug":"ag-department-approves-treatment-to-make-meat-look-good-long-after-it-is-rotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/14\/ag-department-approves-treatment-to-make-meat-look-good-long-after-it-is-rotten\/","title":{"rendered":"Ag Department Approves Treatment to Make Meat Look Good Long After it is Rotten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/11\/13\/AR2007111302016.html?nav=rss_print\/asection\">No, I am not joking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The meat packers got permission to use Carbon Monoxide to keep meat looking fresh (it makes hemoglobin very red).  It should be noted that they approved it as &#8220;generally recognized as safe,&#8221; or GRAS, which meant that there was no public review.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, this technology is banned by banned by the European Union, Japan and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img228.imageshack.us\/img228\/6931\/gr2007111400180zn5.jpg\" \/><br \/>God bless the George W. Bush Agricultural department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I am not joking. The meat packers got permission to use Carbon Monoxide to keep meat looking fresh (it makes hemoglobin very red). It should be noted that they approved it as &#8220;generally recognized as safe,&#8221; or GRAS, which meant that there was no public review. FWIW, this technology is banned by banned by &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1012,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-food","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}