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Class Action Lawsuit Has a Beef with Taco Bell's Meat
Complaint alleges false advertising on Taco Bell menus and in ads
For anyone who's a fan of Taco Bell's Cheesy Gordita Crunch, or the stalwart
beef taco, the following news may not sit well: The "taco meat filling" -- as it
is labeled -- that the fast-food vendor uses is made up of only 36-percent beef.
Multiple news outlets, including WTOL-TV,
are reporting that a class-action lawsuit has been filed in Montgomery, Alabama by the law
firm Beasley Allen alleging that Taco Bell uses false advertising on its menu and in its
ads. The complaint says that Taco Bell should label
its meat as "taco meat filling" because it does not meat the minimum
requirements set by the USDA to be called "beef" or "seasoned ground
beef".
What makes up the other 64 percent? A combination of the following:
Water, isolated oat product, salt, chili pepper, onion powder, tomato powder, oats (wheat), soy lecithin, sugar, spices, maltodextrin (a polysaccharide that is absorbed as glucose), soybean oil (anti-dusting agent), garlic powder, autolyzed yeast extract, citric acid, caramel color, cocoa powder, silicon dioxide (anti-caking agent), natural flavors, yeast, modified corn starch, natural smoke flavor, salt, sodium phosphate, less than 2% of beef broth, potassium phosphate, and potassium lactate.
As Gizmodo points
out, ground beef is defined by the USDA as: "Chopped fresh and/or frozen
beef with or without seasoning and without the addition of beef fat as such, shall not
contain more than 30 percent fat, and shall not contain added water, phosphates, binders,
or extenders."
The USDA policy book says that food labeled as "taco filling" must contain
"at least 40 percent fresh meat". At 36 percent, Taco Bell's "taco meat
filling" can't even be labeled as such, let alone "ground beef". If it
can't even label its "meat" as "taco filling," what option does that
leave? Imagine ordering a "Meat-like 5-layer Burrito." (1.25.2011,
"To Achieve One World
Government it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism,
their loyalty to family traditions and national identification." (Brock Chisholm - Director of the World Health Organization)
"A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to
believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a
reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the Police
State Dictatorship it's going to
get." (Ian Williams Goddard)
The fact is that "political correctness" is all about creating uniformity. Individualism is one of the biggest obstacles in the way of the New World Order. They want a public that is predictable and conditioned to do as it's told without asking questions.
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." Thomas Jefferson