This just isnt right!

[wnkt]

They are trying to take out bacon away from us!!!
I was at the grocery store yesterday and saw this.
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l313/wnkt/Misc/bacon1.jpg
Can you even call it bacon if it isnt cured?....its just lightly smoked raw pork belly strips.
and its Certified Humane.....other than they kill it and slice it up and eat it...very humane.
http://i99.photobucket.com/albums/l313/wnkt/Misc/bacon2.jpg


sorry for the bad photos...I saw them when I got home and found that I had some gunk on the cellphones camera lens.

[Jack2u2]

Uhhhhhh! yeah - I'll be buying that! right along with the veggie burgers and soybean steaks!

[bigabyte]

I'l bet they charge more for doing less!:lol::lol::lol:

[BBQ Grail]

Certified humane? Certified tasteless don't they mean.

Just because you call it bacon, doesn't make it bacon.

[Spydermike72]

What a shame....

[Bbq Bubba]

Anybody laugh at you takin pic's in the supermarket??? :eek::biggrin:

[wnkt]

Anybody laugh at you takin pic's in the supermarket??? :eek::biggrin:

I looked around before I took the pic with the cell phone....its not like I was setting up a tripod and kleig lights :-D

[Phrasty]

"Humane" cuz they play the hogs a lullaby before slaughter.... its true! WOULD I LIE TO YOU GUYS?!?! lol

[swamprb]

I saw that the other day, I didn't pay much attention to it but the "Certified Humane" tag did stick out. So whats the deal with Uncured Bacon?

[Rick's Tropical Delight]

i think 'certified humane' means it was a nice pig.

[Kentuckiana Gib]

You can't call it bacon if it's not cured. Around here it's known as fresh side and not bacon and it needs to be used a fresh pork, either eaten or frozen right away. Uncured bacon sounds like it might still be sick.

[tjus77]

certified humane? does that mean it came from pigman (seinfeld mod)

[Kentuckiana Gib]

I think that must mean the the meat was gently harvested only after the pig died of natural causes.

[Smokin Gator]

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

[BigBarry]

Farkin' tree-hugging Hippies!!!:mad::-P

Banning smokers, uncured bacon, what's next???

[thull]

I assume it could still be sugar/salt cured without adding nitrites or nitrates, right? If I read correctly, that's what Benton's in TN does, and they're the "in" bacon these days.

Excerpts from a 6/14/07 article from the ATL paper:

"But [Allan Benton] remains a bit befuddled by all the attention. 'This isn't rocket science,' he says, his mouth turning up in a slight grin. 'There are no secrets in the meat business. All it takes to make good ham and bacon is salt, brown sugar, time and patience.'...

Making bacon started the way Allan Benton makes it, before big-farm industry and quick-curing processes that use nitrites and nitrates to speed and cheat the process took over. Now, chefs and consumers are demanding a product they feel has been made by hand, with minimal processing and lots of aged smoky flavor."

My wife has bought the "uncured" stuff and it's alright. I plan on making some bacon eventually, but I don't know that I want to take the chance of not using some cure if I end up cold smoking.

[wnkt]

So....if its cured in salt and/or sugar...it still is cured.....just not using chemicals

[Divemaster]

So....if its cured in salt and/or sugar...it still is cured.....just not using chemicals
That's the way it sounds to me....