mmmmmmmm, Ammonia flavored beef...

Better this than a fudge-packing plant.

Where they hog steaks?

I just read that headline and thought it was referring to the basketball game. I was getting my fork out.

/gotta love March

Cargill Meat Solutions

Jesus Christ, what a sh*tty name. Who in their right mind would eat meat from a corporation that promised 'meat solutions'?

If Fark is worth its salt, this thread won't be about absurdly volcanoing preformed patties and ribeyes caught in tree branches, but about the soulless, perspectiveless committee thinking that even entertained the notion Cargill Meat Solutions might even approach being an acceptable name for an abbatoir.

Nobody's gonna believe me when I tell em it was raining meat this morning.

I'm just thinking about the woman they interviewed who was staying in the hotel behind the meat packing plant.

I want her travel agent.

And what's the deal about the Booneville principal? There is a whole other story here me thinks.

Kentucky Fried Children: mmmmmmmm, Ammonia flavored beef...

Probably the tweakers stealing the ammonia.

Welcome to the Machine: I just read that headline and thought it was referring to the basketball game. I was getting my fork out.

Me too, especially since KOMO is a Washington Station.

Go Cougs!

skifdank, I am not complaining, but how is that relevant to this thread?

Wolfmanjames: skifdank, I am not complaining, but how is that relevant to this thread?

Do not question. Never question. It interrupts the hawt.

Wolfmanjames: skifdank, I am not complaining, but how is that relevant to this thread?

Two chicks on the verge of making out is always relevant (to my interests).

Eric Schlosser was right all along.

hillbillypharmacist: Cargill Meat Solutions.

It's Cargill.

Cargill : Archer-Daniels Midland :: Bechtel : Halliburton
(approximately; Halliburton is more purely oil services now)

It doesn't surprise me that they consider processing of animal flesh to be a "solution".

Wolfmanjames: perhaps slightly irrelevant.. It's from an image search for hot or hotness which I figured was at least semi-related.

&

Gregory F. Stuart: I'm unsure, but if you poke around in their index where I found this pic, I don't doubt you could get more info on them.

/it does spice up the thread nicely

Meat Problems

Somebody must've clicked on one of the cows too many times.

/can't possibly be obscure

Can we get about 3 tanker trucks of barbecue sauce and a dozen railroad cars of Sam Adams to this meat plant Western Arkansas please?

We done et, but they's plenny, hep youself

I hope the bacon is ok. For gods sake, won't somebody think of the bacon.

hillbillypharmacist: Who in their right mind would eat meat from a corporation that promised 'meat solutions'?

You will, and you will never know it (new window).

But, you are right. It is just the kind of name you'd expect from a soulless corporation like Cargill.

ps
The Booneville plant seems to be a Cargill Value Added Meats Facilities. More bang for the buck.

"value added" meats sounds like some soulless middleman bought cheap and is selling high, or maybe taking one ton of ground chuck and adding 5 oz ground sirloin to resell as "premium" somehow.

I almost forgot - thank you, subby, for sparing us the tired 'your dog wants' cliche. I would give you +1 if I bothered with TF.

dipdunk: "value added" meats sounds like some soulless middleman bought cheap and is selling high, or maybe taking one ton of ground chuck and adding 5 oz ground sirloin to resell as "premium" somehow.

Value added meats? How do I say this... have you ever read The Jungle?

I guess that means the blood drive we were supposed to hold there Tuesday is cancelled...

the voices in your head: I almost forgot - thank you, subby, for sparing us the tired 'your dog wants' cliche. I would give you +1 if I bothered with TF.

dipdunk: "value added" meats sounds like some soulless middleman bought cheap and is selling high, or maybe taking one ton of ground chuck and adding 5 oz ground sirloin to resell as "premium" somehow.

Value added meats? How do I say this... have you ever read The Jungle?

Mmmmm... Maggots and rat droppings. Now that's what I call value!

hillbillypharmacist: Cargill Meat Solutions

Jesus Christ, what a sh*tty name. Who in their right mind would eat meat from a corporation that promised 'meat solutions'?

I've pondered that name many times. I wonder who out there has a "meat problem".

If Fark is worth its salt, this thread won't be about absurdly volcanoing preformed patties and ribeyes caught in tree branches, but about the soulless, perspectiveless committee thinking that even entertained the notion Cargill Meat Solutions might even approach being an acceptable name for an abbatoir.

Hey, they're offering not just meat but meat solutions. Who wouldn't want help with their meat problems? I know I would.

Value Added means that any redneck within 100 miles of the plant may stop by the conventient conveyor belt in the back and dump all the road kill they can run over at 12.5 cents per pound.

/loves his sausage

skifdank: Wolfmanjames: perhaps slightly irrelevant.. It's from an image search for hot or hotness which I figured was at least semi-related.

Very good. Carry on, sir.

No thanks, had a prime rib the size of my head at Easter dinner...

the voices in your head: I almost forgot - thank you, subby, for sparing us the tired 'your dog wants' cliche. I would give you +1 if I bothered with TF.

dipdunk: "value added" meats sounds like some soulless middleman bought cheap and is selling high, or maybe taking one ton of ground chuck and adding 5 oz ground sirloin to resell as "premium" somehow.

Value added meats? How do I say this... have you ever read The Jungle?

I submitted it with a "your dog wants his steak well done" headline.

/seems like I suck
//Prime Cut was a great movie

It was the first known frozen-beef-dust explosion in the industry's history.

YES unfriendly_cat! I've always read the Ha-Ha guy in my head with Stephen/Phil's voice, which always makes it that much funnier...

/ha ha!
//dangly parts...

FTFA: The plant employs employed about 800 people.

FTFTA

Ey, look at all that meat, ain't she the bitter end?

PeeOnYou: Skifdank: nice JB, but I'll do you one better

Dobby?

Gelatinous: hillbillypharmacist: Cargill Meat Solutions.

It's Cargill.

Cargill : Archer-Daniels Midland :: Bechtel : Halliburton
(approximately; Halliburton is more purely oil services now)

It doesn't surprise me that they consider processing of animal flesh to be a "solution".

Would you say.... a final solution???

/you know who else liked final solutions...

Junior Samples wanted for questioning
/Obscure?

Hopefully there were maximum human casualties to balance it all out.

morning_foil: Hope not too done. I like mine medium well.

Medium well?? Christ man, just eat your shoe.

I saw this in the movie Mosquito Coast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito_Coast

Ammonia assplosion.

Ok, I am quite aware of said facility. Visited there(said facility) recently. They produce hamburger patties/roast beef for major fast food chains, and steaks for some sit down restaurants, etc. You have probably consumed something from that facility and been unaware of it. Especially if you have been in the southern region of the country in the last decade.

The biggest item related to this is that there were no injuries, from the fire or ammonia release. The next is that the entire town is now going to have issues with employement in an already down economy. They are a full hour from the nearest population center large enough to handle 800 workers looking for employment.

//For my two sense, as an employee, Meat solutions does sound off
///Thats why they recently changed it to Cargill Animal Protein

JoeHio:
//For my two sense, as an employee, Meat solutions does sound off
///Thats why they recently changed it to Cargill Animal Protein

Soylent Green was already taken?

hillbillypharmacist: Jesus Christ, what a sh*tty name. Who in their right mind would eat meat from a corporation that promised 'meat solutions'?



Heh, heh. Meat Solutions. Sharks. (new window)

PeeOnYou Nice job also,But I thought it could use a little touch up.

JoeHio
Ok, I am quite aware of said facility. Visited there(said facility) recently. They produce hamburger patties/roast beef for major fast food chains, and steaks for some sit down restaurants, etc. You have probably consumed something from that facility and been unaware of it. Especially if you have been in the southern region of the country in the last decade.

The biggest item related to this is that there were no injuries, from the fire or ammonia release. The next is that the entire town is now going to have issues with employement in an already down economy. They are a full hour from the nearest population center large enough to handle 800 workers looking for employment.

//For my two sense, as an employee, Meat solutions does sound off
///Thats why they recently changed it to Cargill Animal Protein

I have also been to said facility numerous times and worked in that division of Cargill Foods at one time. The operation takes sub-primal cuts of beef and cuts them to portion controlled steaks, ground beef, etc. Thus the "added value". They do seem to change name of the division every few years for whatever reason - over the last 10 years that plant has been under the moniker of Cargill Processed Meat Products, Excel Specialty Products (Excel is/was the meat division of Cargill Foods), EM Pack, and Cargill Meat Solutions. I am not familiar with the Cargill Animal Protein name, but that sounds like it would be more affiliated with the Feed Division.

Major customers included Outback, Sonic, Arby's, Ponderosa and a lot of private label products. It will be interesting to see what becomes of the operation - that community has seen a number of setbacks over the past few years with the closing of two other manufacturing facilities resulting in the loss of approximately 400 jobs. The freezer was added to that building approximately 7 years ago and that plant had increased its workforce the past few years.

So that's what that smell was..