Evil Cheese
If there’s a grilled cheese sandwich in hell, it’s made with this. Let me introduce ya’ll to the next product voted Most Likely to Sicken Innocent Consumers.
There is an unregulated ingredient called Milk Protien Concentrate that appears in Kraft Singles, Velveeta, Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, and host of other like-kind food products. Basically, MPC is the gunk that’s left over from dairy processing.
MPC’s most appropriate use is for glue.
Kraft may not be the only company that hauls in this dairy waste product by the tons from unregulated sources overseas, but it is the most notorious. Ya see, using lots of MPC means less real milk, less real cheese. In short, it’s cheap.
Milk Protien Concentrate is NOT an approved food ingredient in the United States. It has not even been defined as what it is, exactly, by the FDA. ( how do you describe “gunk” scientifically?) Therefore, no standards for purity or nutritional value exist for MPC. Yet somehow, giant food agri-businesses companies like Kraft are positioning themselves to get away with murder. Hopefully it won’t come to that, but we’re talking the same kind of “protiens” China uses in it’s food products, and we know how well that’s turned out for their baby formulas, pet foods, and the like.
MPC is a dairy waste product. Not a food product. Because it’s not a food product, it’s snuck into the United States under cheaper tariffs. And then used for food. Ain’t that smart?
And because the source of the MPC in your slice of Kraft singles can be literally from a dozen countries, a contamination would be impossible to trace back to the point of orgin.
In the Fair Reporting sense that I honor, I’ll note here that not all Kraft products contain MPC’s. But because many of them do, you must read the ingredient label to know what you’ve got. Milk Protien Concentrate means you’re eating something that isn’t fit for human consumption.
The risk of mass food contamination is nothing new and it’s growing worse. The problem stems from outdated FDA regulations, lax or non-existent food inspections both home and abroad, economic pressures to be ever-cheaper for those Walmart shelves, and free trade agreements that resulted in corporate access to international garbage that can be re-packaged and disguised as food.
What’s more, big agri-companies like Kraft want the FDA to re-define what milk is, exactly, and what ice cream is, and what yogurt is, so that they can use more MPC in their products.
Don’t be surprised that Kraft doesn’t care about consumer health and product quality. After all, they’re owned by Philip Morris, a proud maker of cigarettes. They’re not easily daunted by things like serious illnesses brought on by the use of their product. Or lawsuits.
MPC hurts American dairy farmers who are already suffering from low milk prices. The mass importing of MPC as a substitute for real, honest food also puts the public at needless risk.
