MountainMan, you are basically correct, but so are those who argue against the premise. The 'finely textured meat trimmings' are edible, and it's unlikely to be detrimental to ones health. Point is they used to be only dog food. We still have Spam, potted meat, and the like, just a mush of cheapest ground-up leftovers.

It's curious that you argue for your particular sex education based upon the premise that the parents are ignorant about matters they engage in themselves, and thus cannot 'adequately' teach their children matters regarding sexuality, yet on the flip side, you turn around and say ‘Let the people decide’ on labels which sometimes are impossible for the average person to read unless they have a degree in chemistry.

MSG: Textured protein
Autolyzed yeast
Yeast extract
Yeast food
Glutamate
Glutamic Acid
Autolyzed plant protein
Sodium caseinate
Calcium caseinate
Hydrolyzed protein
Hydrolyzed vegetable protein(HVP)
Hydrolyzed plant protein (HPP)
Soy protein extract
Natural flavors

MSG is a poison and that is a fact. So is aspartame, but like cigarettes no one has yet proved the correlation of aspartame and the diseases proported to be caused by it. It does create a craving for carbohydrates which will lead to weight gain. One is likely better off using refined sugar than this crapola which the FDA says is fine. Just remember that the FDA went along with the cigarette companies until.......

On the other hand, I use honey or agave nectar as a sweetener, however, the problem, as usual is the processing:

www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/11/tests-sho...

The gist of the issue is that as long as consumers buy by sight, the food companies will provide nice looking products that appeal to the eye.

Mar 30, 2012 -- 10:23AM, christine3 wrote:

Very true.  And you are talking about the canned meats or dried.  But the ground meat with pink slime in it at grocery stores has nothing on the label, at least not on the label in the store I shop from.

Then finely textured beef trimmings are not in there.

The people have a right to know what is in the meat they are eating.

They have the right to be told the truth.

Mar 30, 2012 -- 11:10AM, christine3 wrote:

There was a painter named Smokey who was very interested in making a penny where he could, so he often thinned down his paint to make it go a wee bit further. As it happened, he got away with this for some time, but eventually the local church decided to do a big restoration job on the outside of one of their biggest buildings. Smokey put in a bid, and, because his price was so low, he got the job. So he set about erecting the scaffolding and setting up the planks, and buying the paint and, yes, I am sorry to say, thinning it down with turpentine......... Well, Smokey was up on the scaffolding, painting away, the job nearly completed, when suddenly there was a horrendous clap of thunder, the sky opened, and the rain poured down washing the thinned paint from all over the church and knocking Smokey clear off the scaffold to land on the lawn among the gravestones, surrounded by telltale puddles of the thinned and useless paint. Smokey was no fool. He knew this was a judgment from the Almighty, so he got down on his knees and cried: "Oh, God, Oh God, forgive me; what should I do?" And from the thunder, a mighty voice spoke.. "Repaint! Repaint! And thin no more!"

LOLLLLLLLLLL........:-)

However, the paint bought at the store is already thinned according to the product quality level. Some covers better than other. The cheaper is generally thinner and not the best buy for new never painted drywall, sic, even with a primer.

Paint that will be sprayed, for the most part, has to be thinned and strained.

As a General Contractor, I have to watch for this, but my guys have generally been with me a long time.

Mar 30, 2012 -- 11:44AM, christine3 wrote:

Mar 30, 2012 -- 11:34AM, Esdraelon wrote:

LOLLLLLLLLLL........:-)

However, the paint bought at the store is already thinned according to the product quality level. Some covers better than other. The cheaper is generally thinner and not the best buy for new never painted drywall, sic, even with a primer.

Paint that will be sprayed, for the most part, has to be thinned and strained.

As a General Contractor, I have to watch for this, but my guys have generally been with me a long time.

My dad was a general contractor.  In those days he was called a carpenter.  He was self taught and built all the houses we lived in.  Like some nomadic Indian tribes, he'd build a house and we'd move into it.  He'd build another house, sell the former, and we'd move. We moved all the way up a costal hill that way and got a good view overlooking the Pacific Ocean!  He only worked by himself.  I got to pick up plug nickles for him and scrap wood into the fire; that was my job.  Those were the "plugs" on the electrical outlets.  I don't know if they are like that anymore.  Those were the good old days for me.

That's the good old days, my dad was a carpenter.

Yeah, those plugs are still in the boxes, we call 'em 'knockouts'.