Pixelated Semantics

A schizotypical inventory

Meat is misdirection

What parts of farmed animals (which are, incidently, currently being called 'difficult-to-manage property' by Wired--as if objectification equals palatability) are actually found in Aussie Meat Pies? As opposed to consumer expectations of what 'meat' content may mean, media sources are today disgorging reports that pie content includes:

• snouts
• ears
• tongues
• tendons
• blood vessels
• 'bits' of lung tissue
• 'other gristle'
• tongue roots

The SMH observes that 'a meat pie can just as easily be made from goat, buffalo, hare or camel (snout included) as beef or lamb' - providing it's not a wild animal. The only prohibited 'meat' ingredients are apparently foetuses and offal--unless they're 'clearly labelled'. According to Choice 'consumers should be aware that the word meat might not mean the same to them as it did to the food regulatory body'. The food manufacturing companies would seem to be only too aware of the disparity between public interpretation and letter-of-the-law labelling compliance, if the amount of non-muscular meat in their products is any indication.

Item posted by AutoEditor at 2:58 pm ::