Friend or feast?
Phyllis Zhu
Orlando Weekly
Editor’s note: Stories of this ilk are included in the blog to inform those in our industry how agriculture is being presented to and perceived by the public.
Thanks to journalists such as Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma), buried somewhere deep in Americans’ meat-loving unconscious is the vague knowledge that the ground beef they grab from the supermarket has undergone a strenuous process of plumping, pounding, chopping and compressing – often not in that exact order – before arriving at its final package as a neat, plastic-wrapped glob of fleshy pink strings.
The Beef Blog 