A leaked internal document revealed Beyond Meat products manufactured at the plant had tested positive for the harmful bacteria Listeria at least 11 times in the second half of 2021 and the first half of this year, Bloomberg reported on Monday.
The document was reportedly provided by a former employee who was worried about conditions in the plant, which is located within an hour of Philadelphia. Two other ex-employees confirmed that bacteria had been found at the facility.
The outlet also obtained internal documents stating that various contaminants, including string, metal, wood and plastic, had been found in Beyond Meat products produced at the plant as recently as last December.
Bloomberg published photos from inside the facility that were provided by a former employee. The pictures showed “what appear to be spills, unsafe use of equipment, and mold on walls and ingredient containers,” according to the report.
The perfect food for vegetarians.
– Mold, listeria, and other bacteria are organic.
– the metal is a source of iron
– wood and string are fibre
Mmm, mmm, good…its “scam-delicious” 🙂
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st St Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
a MAiD diet.
BM. Beyond Meat= Bowel Movement
This article reminded me I need to go take a dump.
Haven’t these people ever heard of Virex II?
Or bleach, for that matter?
Beyond food.
And not even cheaper than real meat…
Not even at NoFrills…..where this morning when it was mainly seniors, very few masks.
Real meat does not have these issues often, although some processing plants may. Warning to all: never assume that the fake stuff is not in your Mc take-outs, as fake food will get cheaper.
Even supermarkets add a lot of crap to “lean beef”.
Beyond Meat isn’t food, it’s a science project. By all accounts, it looks to be frankenfood that makes hotdogs look healthy. You’d have to really hate your health and digestive system to eat that over-processed garbage.
Our red meat has a short, supervised trip. Shot in a field, skinned and butchered at home. Steaks and roasts in the freezer. Sausage mixed, smoked and frozen. The rest ground and packaged at the local butcher, where you can get a look at the cleanliness of his facility.
Most people don’t hunt for their meat.
Most Canadians agree that you need to pay for state permission to do so.
I had a guy here call me a weirdo for getting a partridge with an air-gun, and a very good shot it was, if I do say so myself. Also, saved me a few bucks.
I imagine that this plant, like most meat plants, has a dirty side and a clean side, and that the article is just fear-porn, something that Canadians on both the left and the right are addicted to.
I did a practical work term at a big meat packing plant as part of my chemistry program. I didn’t see anything like what these pictures show. The microbiologist’s lab was adjoining the chemistry lab. Products were tested in both labs for quality control and safety. Plus an electric griddle for morning taste tests of product samples with our morning coffee.
That Beyond Meat plant is not hygienic and would not pass inspection or basic Quality Assurance/Quality Control.
Depends if it has a clean side and a dirty side.
I worked in a chicken processing plant in the late 80s.
The dirty side was full of chicken sh*t, dust and feathers, not to mention live chickens hangin upside-down on a line crapping themselves.
The clean side could tell if you walked in to say hi to someone with a smoke hidden in your hand.
I imagine that this plant you worked in wasn’t taking in live animals in one end, and spitting out packaged product at the other.
The bacterial load on live animals is pretty high, in fact, all workers on the dirty side of the plant had to get over it with slight fevers and what have you in the first couple weeks of employment. This is in Canada, and I’m sure that people will say “but we’re much better now”, as if chicken was some kind of toxic horror in the 1980s.
Like I said, fear porn to keep the gullible masses clamoring for Big Gov’t to keep them safe.
The meat plant I worked at started with livestock . It had a kill floor. At the time it’s name was intercon packers. I toured it all in orientation but not during the livestock unloading. All meat production starts messy, even hunting. It gets cleaner and sanitized after that. There is no excuse for the kind of conditions seen in that Beyond Meat plant.
Chicken processing is not like processing other meats which is not like what BM is trying to do. Chicken processing is inherently filthy as the animals are dipped in bath that gets progressively more contaminated with chicken waste, hence they are all Salmonella contaminated. Pretty sure they didn’t leave dollies sticking up out of the feed funnel cripes. Or mislead reporters about government visits.
I work in labs, you’re not supposed to leave cardboard out it gets moldy. I don’t understand how they have mold on the plastic containers.
This is why I stick with cloned meat grown in vats under controlled conditions. As Churchill wanted.
The mysteria of listeria hysteria. Isn’t grass feed beef plant based protein?
Yes, grass fed beef is plant based protein produced by a bioreactor, but it’s not what Bill Gates wants you to eat, and he knows what’s best for everyone!
/said no one ever