>Anything that you cannot immediately tell what it is made from, basically. So a hamburger is HPV, piece of meat that you have cooked is not. Both burgers and

>Anything that you cannot immediately tell what it is made from, basically. So a hamburger is HPV, piece of meat that you have cooked is not. Both burgers and steaks are made from beef cattle; aren't they? I don't really understand why the prior preparation steps required to turn a steer into a cut of beef are not processing steps, whereas the relatively smaller actions required to grind a cut of meat and shape it into a patty are. An omelette is a HPF but a boiled egg is not? It doesn't seem like a useful metric.