that you had to touch and smell dead flesh.

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There are planets and other things just as ugly, what did you think you'd expect when you magnify up close to stuff, did you expect pristine meat? It's a dirty world, you eat thousands of 'little monsters', bacteria and other organisms a day you breath them in constantly.

One wonders if this man has ever taken any science courses in his life.

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Salami, frankfurters, and sausage have been made of left-over bits from the butcher's shop for a long, long time. This is nothing new - from the description, I was expecting mold colonies, ground-up bug bits, and fingernail clippings.

What it is is close-up pictures of pretty normal cheap meat. You want quality? Go to your natural foods store, and they'll have food that looks fundamentally the same under a macro lens, with less preservatives and flavor additives. Frankly, as an exposé, it lacks punch.

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I'm baffled as to the point of this photo-essay. The comments are banal and the pictures unsurprising.
Yes, the Oscar Mayer wiener looks pretty lousy and grey (not available here in the UK as far as I know) but in general, who would learn anything to change their opinion from these pics?
Processed meat looks pretty weird if you magnify it. So what? I expect a tofu burger would too, or Quorn, or a boiled egg.
This is just a platform for the photographer to make himself look and sound superior.
You don't like processed meat? Don't eat it. You want to be vegetarian? Go be vegetarian.
Tell me about the politics of my food, exploitation, animal cruelty, etc, fine. But don't tell me you don't like how it looks. I don't care.

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I AGREE THIS ISN'T MUCH OF A PHOTO ESSAY - IT WOULD BE MORE INTERESTING IF THE PHOTOGRAPHER HAD BEEN ABLE TO SCIENTIFICALLY IDENTIFY WHAT HE WAS SHOOTING, AND THE "I'M SO BUFF" PHOTO OF HIMSELF AT THE END IS RIDICULOUS.

BUT I THINK THE MAIN POINT IS THAT THESE PRODUCTS ARE NOT MEAT BUT FAT - AND PLENTY OF IT. PEOPLE SEEM TO THINK THIS IS IRRELEVANT AND IT IS NOT. AMERICAN'S ARE CRASHING TO THE GROUND IN RECORD NUMBERS DUE SPECIFICALLY TO THE FAT GLOBULES THAT HAVE PERMEATED THEIR ORGANS, MUSCLE AND SKIN. WHEN SURGEONS CUT INTO PATIENTS, WHAT THEY NOW SEE - UNLIKE FORTY YEARS AGO - LOOKS REMARKABLY SIMILAR TO WHAT'S SHOWN IN THIS PHOTO ESSAY.

THE OLD DITTY, "OH I WISH I WERE AN OSCAR MEYER WEINER" HAS COME TRUE - WE'VE DONE THIS TO OURSELVES. IN HOSPITALS THEY NOW HAVE STANDARD WHEELCHAIRS AND AN EVER-INCREASING COLLECTION OF "DOUBLE-WIDES" TO MANAGE THE HUMANS WHO HAVE TURNED TO WHALES EATING ALL OF THIS BLUBBER.

ADDITIONALLY, WHEN YOU SEE A TOMATO, OR OTHER VEGETABLES AND FRUITS PHOTOGRAPHED IN THIS WAY, THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL, NOT UGLY; RICH WITH MOISTURE AND VIBRANT COLOR. THEY LOOK LIKE THEY WOULD SUSTAIN LIFE! IT WOULD HAVE BEEN GREAT TO SHOW THESE PHOTOS NEXT TO CLOSE-UP PHOTOS OF ORANGES, CELERY, CUCUMBERS AND PLUMS! THIS STUFF LOOKS LIKE DEATH, DEATH, DEATH! AND IT TRULY IS KILLING, KILLING, KILLING.

WITH REGARD TO THOSE WHO SAY - YEAH, SO WHAT, SO GO BUY A BETTER GRADE OF MEAT - THIS MEAT IS WHAT POOR PEOPLE EAT. THEY CAN'T AFFORD A BETTER GRADE, OR ORGANIC.

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AFTER your body has processed it?

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I am on Mike Adams' email list and he does have a lot of good, informative reports generally. However, when I went through this one last year, here is what I wrote him:

...I looked at the photos you posted and, although I really am not anywhere near being a fan of any of the meats you portrayed, I have to say that I found the demonstration wanting. The reasons for this is that you:
a. did not offer any comparison pics of say organic processed meats that contain no artificial colors, preservatives, additives, etc. (they do exist)
b. failed to prove that the lumps, bumps and discolorations on the pics were anything other than the given textures of the meats you portrayed at macro settings. So what? Big surprise! Sausages and luncheon meats contain meat and fat. Meat and fat looks extra gross when magnified (actually, it looks gross to some of us, regardless). "Discolorations"? The "discoloration" you referred to in the Coto salami seemed to me to be just a crushed piece of black pepper magnified. The "discoloration" in the Jimmy Dean sausages, I suspect was just a bit of actual meat that somehow strayed in there.

Well sure you got a lot of hits on the photos, because the introduction sensationalized them. But frankly Mike, the delivery was, in the end, wanting. And I say this with well-meaning because I know you meant well. But if you want to make a point (assuming there is a point that can be made here - I don't know because I've not done photos like this myself, so I wouldn't know how it would all wash out in the end...), I think you should offer comparisons. I suspect this would be hard for you to do, because I believe you are a vegetarian, right? So, basically, to you, all meat is dead animal and highly undesirable for human consumption (which I tend to agree with, mind you...). But if this is the case, then you need to make this case with all sorts of meat, not just the processed stuff you are picking at. Although, admittedly, the ingredients list is enough to make my hackles and bile rise much more than the touted photos.

My point is that this is a good project. It can be a great project if it is balanced and true and presents alternatives for comparison. As it stands, it's just a bunch of photos that look kinda yucky, but not necessarily for the reasons you want to state. Not everyone is going to say "Eeeyuck! I will never eat Jimmy Dean again." Some will wonder, like I do, what the point is to these photos and this presentation. There is no denouement, if you will...

I don't mean to be critical, Mike. It's just that I have read many well-rounded, well thought out, well presented reports from you. And, because I have, I know you can do better.

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They look great!

I've never seen 'em at my Wally's World... where can I get 'em?

Yummmm...

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want to see made. Do you suppose the law is any better?

We seriously need a National Initiative petition Law. We need participatory democracy. Remember Pat Buchanan says that we don't have a democracy. We have a republic. He says we don't want a democracy. The republicans at the top are against democracy. This started with Alexander Hamilton.

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