I've watched Food, Inc, a documentary about the food supply chain and the crazy stuff going on in the food industry, specifically in agriculture, none of us know about or are shielded from finding out about. It's crazy, like the E. coli level in cows going up due to the forced feeding of corn instead of grass, meaning it is more likely to contract E. coli in undercooked beef than any other time in humanity's known history. Ham is no different, with pigs being slaughtered in unclean conditions, so unclean that workers in these pork abattoirs have infections in their fingers due to feces lodging itself under fingernails.
Wal-Mart is certainly a catalyst for this, with so much pressure to overperform while under budget. Wal-Mart alone could set a farmer for life in as little as a few years of purchasing, if the farmer was willing to sell his soul (translation: give up his control of how to farm).
But when ham turns out like that, cooked to perfection so as to rid the meat of its impurities as much as possible and glazed to a dark red, it makes all that melt away as I sink into a ham-induced stupor.
We love ham at the Ryder house. Sorry, Muslim audience and the Muslim friends we know, but it's true. In the Ryder household, chicken is the other white meat.
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