Wal-Mart now sourcing meat from…the field behind the factory?
We’re all extremely interested in how Smithfield/Wal-Mart talks their way out of this one. Not only is there something seriously disturbing about finding metal shards in your food [insert vegetarian prostheltizing here], killing cows with a shotgun is also a violation of the Humane Slaughter Act. Does this have something to do with Wal-Mart’s recent decision to restructure its meat department?
Pittsburgh Family Finds Buckshot In Ribs From Wal-Mart [WPXI-TV (Pittsburgh, PA)]
A local family said it found something suspicious inside a pack of ribs.
Saturday night the family ate ribs that Shawn McFarland had bought at a Wal-Mart in West Mifflin. On Sunday morning, everyone who had eaten the meat developed stomach cramps, nausea and diarrhea.
They claim they found small pieces of metal in the meat. Police later confirmed that the metal was buckshot embedded in the meat and bone.
Patricia Hinson said, “We came over my daughter’s house to have a nice family dinner. I didn’t know we’d all wake up Sunday morning sick. You worry about eating out and having food poisoning. Who’d think you’d bring your food home and it’s not safe.”
The family said that doctors at UPMC South Side Hospital later diagnosed nine of them with food poisoning.
Wal-Mart refused to return Channel 11’s calls. Smithfield Foods, the distributor of the meat, stated that further questions would have to go through their legal department.
Posted by Alex Goldschmidt on Thursday, March 27, 2008
COMMENTS
Lead Poisoning, Texas Style!
Ken V in Texas
Friday, March 28 at 05:24 AM
haha! I love it.
Alex Goldschmidt in
Friday, March 28 at 09:32 AM
Ken: Let’s take an inventory now--the rump was pumped with not only lead,but injected with MSM,saline water and probably gassed with carbon dioxide to enhance the color of the meat (even when long past sell-by date). The meat seems only a secondary vehicle in which to sell salt water and chemicals for a tidy profit.Wonder if the “ammo” came from WalMart shelves?
ddrb in
Friday, March 28 at 11:38 AM
ddrb;
Don’t you know, that in Texas, they use cattle for target practice? They ‘shoot them in the butt to watch them stampede’, just for the fun of it, you know how those ‘cowboys’ are with their ‘guns’, when they get drunk.
Charles in Brighton, Tn.
Friday, March 28 at 11:29 PM
Don’t you know...
You sound so knowledgeable, Charles in Dumbton, Tn.
Ken V in Texas
Saturday, March 29 at 05:22 AM
“killing cows with a shotgun is also a violation of the Humane Slaughter Act”
“Police later confirmed that the metal was buckshot embedded in the meat and bone”
I’m not up on my ammunition, but would buckshot really be enough to kill a cow, especially in a meaty area? I wouldn’t think it would and if it’s not than Alex’s commentary at the top is incorrect. I would think it is far more likely that Charles’ comment is more accurate and some idiots shot the cowwho knows when and they just missed it in the processing, or it’s a hoax like the whole finger in the chili at Wendy’s.
Dave in
Saturday, March 29 at 07:36 AM
“ you know how those ‘cowboys’ are with their ‘guns’, when they get drunk. “
Charles in Brighton, Tn.
Friday, March 28 at 11:29 PM
No,Charlesl,I DON’T know,how cowboys are with their guns when they get drunk,thankfully.....who knows ,with all those dark stores in Texas, the cowboys might start using the vacant buldings and empty parking lots for target practice,in the future.....
ddrb in
Saturday, March 29 at 10:26 AM
Charles,
I know what you mean, I had a dairy farm years ago and once we had a cow butchered and when we went to eat a ‘rump roat’, we found a number of lead BB’s in it!! Turns out, that one of our neighbors found it funny, to shoot the cows in the rump with birdshot!!
ddrb,
We have already said what could happen with those ‘Dark Stores’, but, unfortunately the unions know that their business model would never fly, so they won’t do it!! Actions speak louder than words and as the unions only put out WORDS and no ACTION, we’ll just have to resign ourselves that Wal-Mart will remain on top!!
RDS in
Saturday, March 29 at 10:40 PM
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