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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1890152, member: 68&quot;]Ham is being pumped full of water.&nbsp; The exact technique I don&#039;t know but I suspect they are spending huge amounts of money to build vacuum chambers.&nbsp; They are filled with hams and flooded with a water and sodium tripolyphosphate solution.&nbsp; When air pressure is returned the ham sucks up all the chemical and water and the sodium salt keeps the water from coming back out.&nbsp; This can more than double the weight of the ham which doubles the sale price and triples the cost.&nbsp; The world is poorer and the consumer is poorer but the company gets a huge windfall.&nbsp; They also use sodium nitrite in ham which is a deadly poison in even small quantities.&nbsp; This is to preserve the color and they use so little that people survive.&nbsp; Neither of these chemicals have ever been tested on man.&nbsp; There is no legitimate use of sodium tripolyphosphate to my knowledge.&nbsp; It is not a preservative or curative but is only used to add water weight.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&nbsp; opened a ham a couple months back that I bought at Aldis (Cooks) and it sprayed water for several seconds.&nbsp; It was so &quot;salty&quot; that I could eat it in only small portions. Even after the pressure is released lots of water remains in the meat so it can&#039;t be cooked covered or it boils in that water instead of baking.&nbsp;&nbsp; Everytime I try to thaw something in my frig it leaks all over because plastic bags are flimsier now and everything is soaking wet so red colored water leaks everywhere.&nbsp; You spend extra money at every step and you lose half the cost of the product if it&#039;s half water. Chicken and fish are the worst but&nbsp; most people won&#039;t complain.&nbsp; They package things like scissors in plastic that requires a sledge hammer to get into.&nbsp; Across the board most products are getting worse with ever less concern for the customer.&nbsp; Yet people still buy the stocks of these companies and the CEO&#039;s get bigger and bigger bonuses and pay.&nbsp; We&#039;re wasting more resources than we use now days.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Millions of machines were made to call people at home and bother them so even laws against it won&#039;t stop it.&nbsp; Now lots of money has been spent to increase the weight of things sold by the pound so we&#039;ll have wet products for a long time.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I just can&#039;t think of anything more representative of the age of greed than zinc cents.&nbsp; How better to remember this era than nice Gem zincolns?&nbsp; They should never have been made at all and quality is so abysmal it&#039;s a wonder any exist in Gem.&nbsp; But in reality most are fairly common in Gem and can be picked up for almost nothing.&nbsp; Only six or eight dates are really challenging and these are cheap as well since there is no demand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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