Just What Are You And Your Athletes Eating At The Track Meets?

 Just What Is This Anyway??

This past weekend Lauren and I took a little weekend break and went up north of Los Angeles to a small city called Clovis very near Fresno for the CIf High School Track & Field Championships. It was hosted at Veterans Stadium. The weather was very warm about 97 degrees in th day time and around the 80′s into the evening. The meet started the running events about 6pm so the heat didn’t seem to be such a factor. The performances both days were amazing and Lauren couldn’t help being inspired by all the “Big Girls” fast times.

 Aston Purvis 100m 11.17 (Lauren just turn to me with her mouth dropped open)  That was for starters. Read about all the result and even see some video footage here. Eating good on a schedule was tough up there because the meet ran so late, they didn’t allow the cooler I brought so we kinda roughed it, but we didn’t go to the stands to eat. Glad I was some what prepared, but it was tough. Mostly on Lauren not me,she kept giving that look of starvation.Which she wasn’t she just didn’t want what I had  which was fruits.popcorn, sandwiches . Oh well she survived.

Now on to my topic “Just What are You Eating At The Meets? Well I know that the smells of the food cooking at the youth meets is always enticing but is it all that good for us. We are constantly telling our kids to eat healthier but we serve food that speak against every thing we tell them week after week. Hot dogs,funnel cakes…I need not go on. Once in awhile I guess,it ‘s just that we are out there weeks on end so it really can become weekly very easily.

Take  a look at the picture above what do yo think it is?

 A) Strawberry ice cream

B) Chicken

C) Plastic foam

D) None of the above

What you need to know:

“Folks, this is mechanically separated chicken, an invention of the late 20th century. Someone figured out in the 1960′s that meat processors can eek out a few more percent of profit from chickens, turkeys, pigs, and cows by scraping the bones 100% clean of meat. This is done by machines, not humans, by passing bones leftover after the initial cutting through a high pressure sieve. The paste you see in the picture above is the result.

This paste goes on to become the main ingredient in many a hot dog, bologna, chicken nuggets, pepperoni, salami, jerky etc…

The industry calls this method AMR – Advanced Meat Recovery.

In 2004, as a result of  mad cow disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy), the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) ruled that beef could no longer be processed this way, because testing showed that parts of the bovine central nervous system ended up in the meat.

As for products using mechanically separated chicken and pork, FSIS ruled that they are safe to eat, but required them to be labeled as such.

Despite them being safe, FSIS states that no more than 20% of the meat in a hot dog come from mechanically separated pork.”

The more you know about food the more you don’t want to know more….YUKY..

Thanks to foodedcate.com for this enlighten and gross story…I will never look at hot dog the same again..

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