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  • 2014-01-16 (xsd:date)
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  • Has Meat from Diseased Animals Been Approved for Consumers? (en)
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  • In January 2014, many Facebook users were appalled by a widely shared item announcing that meat from diseased animals has been approved for consumers and featuring a nauseating picture seemingly documenting the sort of thing that shoppers might now be purchasing from grocery store meat departments: However, that information was very old news, not a description of a recent event. The text was lifted directly from a July 2000 news article describing the implementation of new federal rules for classifying animal carcasses: The accompanying photograph had also already made the rounds of the Internet before this item went viral. We don't know its specific origins, but speculation about what it pictures includes its being a cut from the carcass of an animal with a spinal abscess: (en)
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