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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] meat from walmart
  • Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 13:04:54 EDT



> >Ray, I am not sure if the stuff you find in hams is the same. I
> imagine it is. Sounds like James would know. : )

More's the pity, but I do. Those watery holiday hams (I must confess my
bigotry here and tell you that around there that sort of ham is referred to
as
'Yankee ham' as opposed to good old salt cured ham) indeed have phosphates.
They
aren't so much as injected as soaked in the stuff and the main reason, I'm
guessing, is to add water weight. But that's not the half of it, most of
those
hams also have sodium nitrate and sodium nitirite. The nitrate is no real
problem but the nitrite is unhealthy in the extreme. It is only there to
preserve the fake red color (the nitrate is to check rancidity).

Alas, and double alas, the otherwise magnificient real hams, Clifty Farms and
Smithfield (Tennessee style and Virginia style respectively) also have
nitrites. It doesn't mean I never eat them, but it was one of the main
reasons we
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