Obsessions With Meat, Taco Bell And Mexitarianism

There are actually people in this world who hate Taco Bell enough to sue, for like, $5 million dollars. According to Gustavo Arellano from the OC Weekly a California woman named Amanda Obney is suing Taco Bill in a class-action lawsuit because the crappy “Mexican” food chain doesn’t sell real beef as it advertises.

Quoting from the lawsuit, Arellano writes:

“Taco Bell’s advertisements that it sells ‘beef’ menu items containing ‘seasoned ground beef,’ is unsubstantiated, false and misleading. The Products, unbeknownst to consumers, are comprised substantially of meat filling and are mislabeled. Taco Bell’s ‘seasoned beef’ actually contains, among other ingredients, water, ‘Isolated Oat Product,’ wheat oats, soy lecithin, maltodrextrin, anti-dusting agent, autolyzed yeast extract, modified corn starch and sodium phosphate, as well as beef and seasonings.”

I try not to eat meat whenever possible. What does this mean? I ate a hamburger Sunday at a friend’s BBQ and a nice steak because my comadre insisted on feeding me Mexican-style. Thus and as I’ve written before, I consider myself a Mexitarian because I’m a vegetarian except when I have to appease my Mexican loved ones. After not really eating meat for the past four-ish years, you get to a point where you don’t really miss it and it’s not hard to live without meat — especially because I love beans so much.

The point is, even though Taco Bell is terrible, you can’t go wrong with beans! I’m not sure that suing Taco Bell over their meat lies is the solution, but when in doubt, leave meat out!