The Consumer Trap

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

What’s Behind a Brand?

beef

The frozen hamburgers that the Smiths ate, which were made by the food giant Cargill, were labeled “American Chef’s Selection Angus Beef Patties.” Yet confidential grinding logs and other Cargill records show that the hamburgers were made from a mix of slaughterhouse trimmings and a mash-like product derived from scraps that were ground together at a plant in Wisconsin. The ingredients came from slaughterhouses in Nebraska, Texas and Uruguay, and from a South Dakota company that processes fatty trimmings and treats them with ammonia to kill bacteria.

Posted by Michael Dawson | Filed in Bad Products, Corporate Marketing 101, Lies

What’s Behind a Brand?

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