MRI to detect best cuts of meat?
By earthsong
@earthsong (589)
United States
January 17, 2009 9:47am CST
I was just reading a discussion on another forum about how a team of Japanese scientists have found a way to use the MRI to detect the best cuts of beef. Genetically modified foods, antibiotics and hormones added, do we really need one more thing done to our meat that might come back to haunt us? We don't know what this can do to the human body directly, who knows what doing this to our food can turn out to us... I know its not like radioactivity, but I'm leery of it, none the less. Opinions?
2 responses
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
18 Jan 09
Wow. That is neat. I hope that it works. I know we have had alot of bad meats on the market lately. It would be nice if something could detect good meats. I do not think it will harm us. I think it may do us some good.
@earthsong (589)
• United States
18 Jan 09
Thanks for the reply. It wouldn't detect whether the meat was good or bad, just where the best cuts of meat (how to cut it) were.
@loveyevi (513)
• United States
20 Jan 09
MRI's use magnets to get a picture of whatever you are scanning, so I am relatively sure that it does no harm to the human body. Doctors use them everyday to diagnose and see inside the human body, so I do not see how it would adversely affect meat. I had an MRI when I was younger, and did not hear any side effects that would come from it, unlike x-rays where you get the radiation. I do know that an MRI test is very costly, I think they should stop worrying about what the best cut of meat is and to use them appropriately in hospitals.
