Why are burgers considered 'junk food'?

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    I also like to mix in extras to bulk it up. Whatever veg is going handy, but commonly it will be finely chopped carrot, celery, sometimes sweetcorn, and of course onion. If I add veg (other than onion) I find I also need to add a little bit of flour, otherwise they wont bind together too well. The flours only role is to mop up surplus moisture from the veg, which would otherwise make the mix to sloppy sometimes, and the flour is only added as an 'emergency fix' to stiffen it up enough to form into burgers.
     
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    Sorry, missed that bit. Couldn't you get it from a butcher that gets it from a named farmer? Might be pricey, though.
     
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      The trouble is if you want to eat healthy or organic you have to pay through the nose for it and food prices are already crippling people. Those £2 ready meals or a pack of value mince is going to contain the worst cuts of meat possible. If I had the money to do so I'd buy straight off the farm and make sure it was all organic but farm shops are SO ridiculously expensive.

      You can't guarantee that your food hasn't been tampered with unless you buy organic which tends to have a very short shelf life and a high price tag.

      I'd love to buy all organic meat and veg but sadly my budget simply won't stretch to it. I try my best by making as much of my own food as possible, cooking with healthy oils and draining off and excess fat off meat and mince. At least that way I have some control over what's in my food.
       
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      They're not,because The Growth Promoters will be in the cattle cake for the beef aniamls (not sure if it's bin baned or still in use today) Beef cake/nuts, as it says on the label not to be fed to sheep,


      Yes with silage, hay and maize, but the cattle cake/nuts/meal will have lots of ingredents from all over the world, some ingredents are sprayed with nasty chemcils to kill the bugs that are living in the ingredents on the ships or in the sheds that it's stored in before it get to the mills to make the cattle cake nuts
      Urea Wheat and Costic Wheat is fed by some farmers, which is Urea Fertilizer or Costic Soda added to wheat to breck it down so the cattle can eat it with out passing straight through
       
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        Organic can also be tampered with as well, that's why i will not buy Organic from a shop, the only Organic food i eat is from a trusted place, my garden as i know what i've put in it

        Just go back to the Horse meat, not the only thing that's going on and will not be the last


        Will she tell her husband what went on?
        http://www.thedrum.com/news/2014/03/17/ad-day-aldi-tea
         
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