Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
[email protected] — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Tijuana meat quality called into question
Lack of inspections, party politics blamed
Tijuana's La Segunda newspaper this week offered a report that sanitary meat — be it beef, chicken, or pork — is out of control in Tijuana, devoid of any kind of quality control or review.
According to the article, meat inspection is glossed over at best and non-existent at worst. Carlos Garay Sánchez, director of Grupos Liberales, points to the PAN party as the reason meat has become suspect in the city. The party allegedly let meat inspection slide since 1989, when stringent laws were once in effect.
The article states that under municipal law, the governance of meat quality comes under the auspices of city hall, and, of late, says Garay, this quality control is non-existent and market meat is untraceable to its origins.
“There are no guarantees for the meat sold, its processing or origin,” said Garay.
There is an expression in Spanish, where one is warned not to accept gato por liebre or “cat for rabbit” (i.e., “Don’t buy a pig in a poke”), and Garay feels that it is time for city hall to step up to the plate, take the bull by the horns, and own up to its responsibilities.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Tijuana meat quality called into question
Lack of inspections, party politics blamed
Tijuana meat quality called into question
Lack of inspections, party politics blamed
Tijuana's La Segunda newspaper this week offered a report that sanitary meat — be it beef, chicken, or pork — is out of control in Tijuana, devoid of any kind of quality control or review.
According to the article, meat inspection is glossed over at best and non-existent at worst. Carlos Garay Sánchez, director of Grupos Liberales, points to the PAN party as the reason meat has become suspect in the city. The party allegedly let meat inspection slide since 1989, when stringent laws were once in effect.
The article states that under municipal law, the governance of meat quality comes under the auspices of city hall, and, of late, says Garay, this quality control is non-existent and market meat is untraceable to its origins.
“There are no guarantees for the meat sold, its processing or origin,” said Garay.
There is an expression in Spanish, where one is warned not to accept gato por liebre or “cat for rabbit” (i.e., “Don’t buy a pig in a poke”), and Garay feels that it is time for city hall to step up to the plate, take the bull by the horns, and own up to its responsibilities.
Comments
Surprise, surprise! Carlos Garay Sánchez is a politician affiliated with the PAN's arch-enemy, the PRI. So I'd take whatever he says with a grain of salt. He would say or do almost anything to discredit the PAN.
In over two decades there, I never had a single issue. In fact, they will grind beef and pork fresh for you in the larger markets. Is it under-inspected? No idea, but I have more confidence in meat I've bought and cooked in Baja that from some places in San Diego. That's just me, everyone has their own comfort level when it comes to food. But is it political? Or how about ultimately, isn't just about everything political?
I appreciate that this piece contained no Anthony Weiner jokes, by the way.
One thing I would be leery of? All of the poultry that is some sort of convoluted mix of chicken and turkey and ostrich (in lunch meat and hot dogs and so on). You're seeing that even in San Diego now. It's in Mexico as well, and not that I'm and expert but I stay away from that stuff.
Why would Carlos Garay Sánchez make false claims about uninspected meat in Tijuana to discredit the PAN party when the mayor of Tijuana, Carlos Bustamante, who would be responsible for inspecting Tijuana meat is a member of the PRI party?
You need to do more homework, Bob.
Hey, refried, they will grind beef and pork in the US too. For free. Try any Stater Bros. market sometime. Then read this about Mexican meat:
"MÉXICO CITY - The Federal Commission for Protection Against Health Risks (Cofepris) suspended the operations of two slaughter houses. The first in Xalapa and the second in Córdoba in Vercruz due to the presence of clenbuterol in cattle.
In an interview with EL UNIVERSAL, Álvaro Pérez Vega, commisioner of Health Operations of Cofepris, explained that so far this year they have closed 14 businesses due to the presence of the substance and they have been systematically reviewing 32 companies since 2011."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PuXia1zQmyA "60% of Mexican Meat Contaminated With Clenbuterol"