Wednesday, January 26, 2011

I have a dirty little secret

I love Taco Bell. I mean love it, none of this "fresh fit menu" or "fresco style" stuff, full fledged nacho cheese volcano taco deliciousness. A total violation of my effort to eat real food, its a vice. BUT I can't eat them anymore because I found out some very disturbing information about their "seasoned beef" yesterday.

Taco Bell is being sued for calling their "taco meat filling" seasoned beef when it is only 35% meat. ONLY 35% MEAT!!!

USDA requires anything labeled beef to be 70% beef 30% fat. USDA requires anything called meat to be at least 40% meat. Taco Bell couldn't even meet the 40% mark!

This means no more Taco Bell for me.

You can read the story here

1 comment:

Stacey said...

I too love Taco Bell and used to eat it fairly regularly when I went to B-School. I was glad when we moved here that there wasn't one close to me. And yes, I am equally disturbed when I heard that information about the % of meat. Gross.