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I'm unsure how a photo of a loin chop suggests it was bought at the nearest grocery store. It didn't have a package with a grocery store name. It says it came
by SamBam 2y ago
I'm unsure how a photo of a loin chop suggests it was bought at the nearest grocery store. It didn't have a package with a grocery store name.
It says it came from a commercial meat processing facility, and I don't see any reason to doubt it. These facilities pre-butcher and package the meat, and are then sent out to grocery stores or wherever. I assume they got it straight from the source to avoid any potential confounding effects of a grocery store keeping the meat out of refrigeration, or mislabeling the dates, or whatever.
- ansgri 2y agoBased on my experience in academia in my country, and from what I read about academia worldwide, I'd say it was indeed very likely bought from ordinary store, since it's not a department dealing specifically with food (thus having convenient access to samples). Often a group of researchers just looks for a random important-sounding subject to apply whatever methods they are familiar with and don't think much about the domain they're getting into. Sometimes the result turns out interesting, more often they publish it wherever they can and move on.
- SamBam 2y agoExcept that they literally said "was supplied by the commercial processing facility." I don't see any reason to doubt their word. And as someone who also works in academia, in the kind of mushy low-budget research that these folks might be in, I take issue with the idea that we assume they couldn't just pick up the phone and call the meat processing plant. It's really not hard to do. I've randomly bought fish from fish processing plants, for my own personal consumption, and I didn't even have a grant and a grad student to do it.