Comments on: Secret of Fresh Meat: Carbon Monoxide!

By: j ancion

j ancion — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 22:51:44 +0000

I am about to become a vegetarian. Meat these days is absolute crap. I am on a sodium restricted diet and cannot even find chicken that isnt laced with salt. I guess I am going to have to raise my own livestock, but then we would make pets out of them and not want to kill them to eat. I suspected something funky with the case ready meats when I observed the packages were pressurized and commented at the time that they were probably pumped full of some gas. I wonder if its is safe to drive after you’ve eated a CO steak ?

By: Bim

Bim — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 02:07:12 +0000

no commment

By: mercedes

mercedes — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 15:12:21 +0000

not only is using this gas deceptive, what about what it does to the flavor of the meats? wal-mart sells this crap , its tasteless!

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 00:11:22 +0000

Hemoglobin (the stuff in blood that carries oxygen to all of your bits) and myoglobin (the same stuff, only in muscles {ie meat}) has a greater affinity for CO than oxygen. Bad for breathing, good for nice looking steaks I guess.

By: David

David — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:43:20 +0000

See? CO2 really isn’t the issue.

By: Arlo

Arlo — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:17:05 +0000

Just “CO” guys.

By: David

David — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 04:19:38 +0000

CO2 isn’t the issue. Deceptive marketing practices is.

By: John Anderson

John Anderson — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 20:45:00 +0000

It has been noted elsewhere that this info is from a company that makes an older competing product, CO2 has itself been around for quite a while, and the FDA says it is not a problem after about 20 years of use.