{"id":1776,"date":"2006-11-15T09:38:39","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T17:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/11\/councilmember_shocked_to_discover_that_there_is_such_thing_as_the_american_meat_institute.html"},"modified":"2006-11-15T09:38:39","modified_gmt":"2006-11-15T17:38:39","slug":"councilmember_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/councilmember_s.html","title":{"rendered":"Councilmember Shocked To Discover That There Is Such Thing As The American Meat Institute*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City Council again <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/471416p-396727c.html\">tackles the important issues<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>One City Council member wants to outlaw a process called modified atmosphere packaging that allows meat to stay red even when it&#8217;s not so fresh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s clearly deceptive,&#8221; said Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Queens). &#8220;People think they are buying meat that looks healthy, and it&#8217;s made that way artificially.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Janet Riley of the American Meat Institute said the process, which uses small amounts of carbon monoxide to extend the shelf life of meat, is safe and doesn&#8217;t mask spoiled food.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You would absolutely know if the meat was spoiled,&#8221; Riley said. &#8220;It would be slimy, the package would be bulging and it would smell &#8212; that smell is unmistakable.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*Another great band name!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City Council again tackles the important issues: One City Council member wants to outlaw a process called modified atmosphere packaging that allows meat to stay red even when it&#8217;s not so fresh. &#8220;It&#8217;s clearly deceptive,&#8221; said Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Queens). &#8220;People think they are buying meat that looks healthy, and it&#8217;s made that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandstanding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}