miércoles, 20 de julio de 2011

Di no al Clenbuterol, consume CERDO MEXICANO ¡¡¡¡

El Clenbuterol, de acuerdo a las normas de sanidad mexicanas, enmarcadas en la Ley Federal de Sanidad Animal, es una substancia PROHIBIDA para la alimentación animal.

En nuestro país, no es práctica común su uso y cuando llega a detectarse el intento de uso de dicha substancia, es de inmediato reportada y sancionada por las autoridades de Salud y SAGARPA.

Para el caso del cerdo, el clenbuterol es mortal para la especie, por lo que NINGÚN PORCICULTOR MEXICANO LO USA EN LA ALIMENTACIÓN DEL CERDO MEXICANO.

El manejo sanitario y nutricional del Cerdo Mexicano, es permanentemente supervisado por médicos veterinarios zootecnistas, nutriólogos y por la propia industria de transformación y procesamiento, para garantizar el abasto de carne con las cualidades nutricionales y sanitarias que permitan su asimilación por el ser humano. El clenbuterol es conocido como un simpaticomimético. Este medicamento es utilizado para asimilar efectos adrenérgicos en el cuerpo humano. El clenbuterol es un agonista selectivo beta-2 que se utiliza para estimular beta receptores en tejido graso y muscular en el cuerpo. El clenbuterol ejerce la mayoría de su efecto en la estimulación de tanto receptores beta-2 como de beta-3. El clenbuterol es uno de las drogas de rendimiento más incomprendido, ya que es verdad que es efectivo en “quemar” grasa corporal, pero erróneamente se ha mencionado que el clenbuterol es efectivo en causar ganancias anabólicas, comparándolo con esteroides anabólicos leves. Muchas de las aseveraciones sobre los efectos anabólicos del clenbuterol son derivados, estudiando los efectos en ganado bovino. El clenbuterol es efectivo en incrementar masa muscular y disminuyendo grasa corporal en animales que poseen receptores adrenérgicos beta-3.

En el ser humano, el clenbuterol se utiliza como un mucolítico y broncodilatador. Al estimular con clenbuterol a los receptores adrenérgicos beta-2 que recubren el tejido pulmonar, se van a dilatar lo bronquios, aumenta la capacidad de carga de oxigeno al cuerpo, permite mayor resistencia y duración. Precisamente por estas características el clenbuterol es muy atractivo para los atletas involucrados en deportes de resistencia donde se requiere ese impulso extra, para siempre estar en ventaja de los demás. También es popular entre los corredores de distancia y los ciclistas.

El problema con la variación de los efectos anabólicos en humanos y ganado bovino radica en que el ganado bovino tiene una abundancia de receptores tipo beta-3, el ser humano tiene muy poco o nulo receptores adrenérgicos tipo beta-3. Estos receptores beta-3, al ser ocupados por la droga clenbuterol, incrementa secreción y sensibilidad, de insulina / glucagón, causando mayor transporte de glucosa y amino ácidos hacia el interior del músculo esquelético, por ende, causando efectos anabólicos, que en el ser humano no se manifiesta. Lo que funciona en animales como anabólico, no necesariamente funciona en humanos, como es el caso con clenbuterol.

viernes, 15 de julio de 2011

Pork-tionary

America’s cut - A boneless, center-cut top loin pork chop cut according to specific industry standards.

Bacon - A cut of pork from the hog’s sides and belly that has been cured and/or smoked. It consists of fat interspersed with strands of meat. Available sliced or in a "slab" (one piece).

Bacon Bits - Small chips of dried, crisp bacon. Bacon bits can also be made from bacon-flavored soy or other vegetable proteins.

Bacon, Canadian-style - A cut of pork from the eye of the loin, located in the middle back of the loin. Canadian-style bacon is cut into round or oblong slices. It more closely resembles ham rather than regular bacon. Also called back bacon.

Bacon Grease - The fat rendered from bacon.

Banger - British slang for sausages traditionally made from ground pork and breadcrumbs.

Barbecue; Barbeque; Bar-B-Q v. - A method of slowly cooking pork in an open pit or on a spit using coals, hardwoods, gas or electricity as a heat source. The same effect can also be achieved using a grill by placing the pork on the rack away from the heat source. The food is frequently based with a tangy tomato- or vinegar-based sauce.

Barding - A process of wrapping thins sheets of pork fat or bacon around lean meat or poultry to prevent it from drying out during roasting.

Blade Steak; Pork Steak - A relatively tender piece of pork from the shoulder. Available with bone or boneless.

Boar - An uncastrated male hog.

Bologna; Baloney (bah-LOH-nyah; bah-LOH-nee) - A precooked, highly seasoned sausage made from a mixture of meats, such as pork, beef, veal and/or chicken. Bologna is typically served as a cold cut or sandwich meat.

Braising - A method of cooking pork by simmering it in liquid in a tightly covered pan over low heat. Braising is similar to stewing, but uses a smaller amount of liquid.

Bratwurst (BRAHT-wurst; BRAHT-vursht) - A fresh German sausage made from pork and seasoned with ginger, nutmeg, coriander or caraway.

Braunschwieger (BROWN-shwi-ger; BROWN-shi-ger) - A soft German sausage made from pork liver and enriched with eggs and milk.

Butterfly - A process of cutting boneless meat evenly to but not through the opposite edge, leaving the uncut edge as a “hinge.” When the meat is open, it resembles the wings of a butterfly. Pork loin chops and tenderloins are sometimes butterflied.

Carnitas (Kahr-NEE-tahz) - Mexican for “little meats” or small shreds of browned pork. Usually eaten with salsa or used as a filling for tacos and burritos.

Casing - A membrane used to encase ground meat for sausages before they are cooked or cured. Natural or animal casings come from the intestines of cattle, hogs, goats and sheep. Artificial casings, made from collagen, are edible. Some artificial casings (cellulosic casings and fibrous casings) are not edible and are peeled away before the product is packaged (skinless franks, for example).

Cervelat (SER-vuh-lat) - A type of sausage made from pork and/or beef and seasoned with herbs, spices and other flavorings such as mustard or garlic. Cervelats are cured, dried and smoked. They range from semi-dry to moist to soft.

Chicharrón; Chicharón (chee-chah-RROHN) - A Mexican pork snack made from pork skin that has been fried twice at different temperatures.

Chitterlings; Chitlins; Chitlings (CHIHT-lihnz) - Cleaned, small intestines of freshly slaughtered hogs. Chitterlings are used in soup or battered and fried, or used as sausage casings.

Chop n. - A cut of pork from the loin. Depending on the section of loin where originated, pork chops are named loin, rib, sirloin, top loin and blade chops. Chops are available boneless or with bone attached; thickness varies from 1/2 to 2 inches.

Cracklings; Cracklin’s - The crisp skin of fried or roasted pork after the fat has been rendered.

Crown Roast - A rack of pork or rib roast turned into a circle and tied.

Cure; Curing - A process of infusing meat with a solution of salt, sugar and nitrite to enhance flavor, color and shelf life. Cured products may also be smoked.

Cutlet - A thin, boneless piece of pork cut from the loin. Thickness varies from 1/8 to 1/2 inch.

Dry-Heat Cooking Methods - Cooking methods using air or fat to transfer heat through conduction or convection. Common dry-heat methods for pork include roasting, broiling, panbroiling and sautéing.

Fatback - The layer of fat running along the hog’s back. It is available unsmoked and unsalted, and used for making lard and cracklings.

Finger Meats - Slivers of pork between the ribs. Also called rib fingers.

Frankfurter - A cooked, cured and often smoked sausage. Frankfurters are either skinless or stuffed in a natural casing and linked. Frankfurters are made from beef and/or pork and up to 15 percent poultry.

Fresh Pork - Pork that has not been frozen, cured, smoked, precooked or otherwise processed to a form that changes it from its original meat.

Frill - A strip of paper curled and rolled at one end, and slipped over a protruding bone for decoration. Often used on a pork crown roast.

Frizzes (FRIHZ-ihs) - Dried Italian pork or beef sausages that are squiggly in shape and flavored with garlic and anise.

Frizzle - To cook thin slices of fat, usually bacon, until it is crisp and the edges curl.

Grades for Pork - Pork grades are: U.S. No. 1, U.S. No. 2, U.S. No. 3, U.S. No. 4 and Utility. Pork grades are a general indication of product yield, with less emphasis on the quality. Pork carcasses are seldom graded since carcasses are processed to trimmed primals and subprimals before sale to retailer or further processed cured products.

Grilling - A method of cooking pork over direct heat on an electric, gas or charcoal grill.

Ground Pork - Pork that has been ground or finely chopped. Ground pork is unseasoned and usually available fresh with an average lean-fat ratios of 70% lean, 30% fat.

Ham - A cut of pork from the hind leg that has been cured and smoked.

Ham Hock - The lower portion of the hog’s hind leg, corresponding to a human’s ankle. Available fresh, but more often ham hocks are cured and/or smoked.

Ham, Cooked/Fully Cooked - Cooked ham is ham heated to a temperature of at least 145ºF. This product must be kept refrigerated at all times. Fully cooked ham is ham cooked for lengthy periods at temperatures as high as 250ºF. Both cooked and fully cooked hams are cured and/or smoked. They can be eaten as is, but the flavor is generally improved by further heating prior to serving.

Ham, Country; Country-Style - A dry-cured ham. The ham is hand rubbed with salt, sugar and nitrate; packed in the curing ingredients and usually smoked. A country ham is much drier than injected-cured hams and has a sharper flavored due to its high salt content.

Ham, Fresh - A cut of pork from the hind leg. Fresh ham has been neither cured nor smoked. Also called pork leg or leg of pork.

Ham, Green - A fresh ham.

Ham, Picnic - A cut of pork from the upper part of the foreleg and includes a portion of the shoulder. By definition, it is not a true ham. However, the Picnic is cured in the same manner as ham, giving it a ham-like flavor.

Ham, Smithfield - A ham processed and cured in the area of Smithfield, Virginia. Originally, the hogs were raised on hickory nuts, peanuts and acorns, but today’s hogs are grain-fed. The ham is processed by dry-curing, seasoning, hickory smoking and aging for 6 to 12 months. The result is a meat that is lean, dark in color and has a salty flavor.

Ham, Wet-Cured - A ham treated with a brine solution of water, salt, sugar and spices. The brine ensures that the meat stays moist and tender and lends ham to its appealing taste and texture.

Hock - The lower portion of the hog’s foreleg (Picnic shoulder), corresponding to a human’s ankle. Also called shank.

Hog - A domesticated pig weighing more than 120 pounds.

Hog Jowl - The cheek of a hog. It is usually cut into squares, then cured and smoked. Also called jowl bacon.

Hog Maw - A hog’s stomach stuffed with sausage, then simmered and baked.

Hot Dog - Usually refers to a frankfurter served on a bun. Also refers to just the frankfurter or wiener itself.

Lard - Solid or semisolid white fat made from rendered pork.

Lard, Leaf - Lard made from fat around the hog’s kidneys.

Larding - To insert strips of fat, usually pork or bacon, into a lean cut of meat before it is cooked. The purpose is to add flavor and moisture. The strips are inserted with a special tool called a larding needle.

Lardon; Lardoons (LAHR-don; lahr-DOON) - 1. Long strips of fat use for larding meat. 2. A French term for bacon that has been diced, blanched and fried.

Leg of Pork - An uncured cut of pork from the hind leg. Also called fresh ham.

Liverwurst (LIHV-uhr-wurst; LIHV-uhr-vursht) - A soft, ready-to-eat sausage made from 30 percent pork liver mixed with other meat. Available smoked or cooked, and in links, loaves and slices. Also called liver sausage.

Loin Roast - A roast cut from the loin section. Depending on the specific roast cut, a loin roast can be available with bone (crown roast, for example) or boneless (top loin roast, for example).

Marinade - A seasoned and/or acidic liquid used for marinating.

Marinate - A process of soaking meat in a seasoned liquid to enhance its flavor or in an acidic liquid to tenderize less tender cuts of meat.

Medallion (meh-DAL-yuhn) - A term referring to a small round or oval boneless slice of meat.

Moist-Heat Cooking Methods - Cooking methods using water or steam to transfer heat through convection. Common moist-heat methods for pork are braising and stewing (cooking in liquid).

Natural - Pork processed and handled in compliance with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) natural standards. These standards prohibit the use of artificial ingredients, coloring ingredients or chemicals, and allow only minimal processing.

Nitrates/Nitrites - Approved food additives used as curing agents, color stabilizers and/or preservatives in processed meats. Sodium or potassium nitrites, used in the curing process, inhibit the growth of “Clostridium botulinum” spores (the growth of which can result in botulism). Sodium and potassium nitrates, approved only for drying and curing and in certain dried sausage products, naturally convert into nitrites during dry curing and in the intestinal tract.

Pancetta (pan-CHEH-tuh) - Italian pork-belly bacon cured with salt and spices, but not smoked. Available rolled in a cylinder and used to flavor pastas, sauces, meats and vegetable dishes.

Pig - A young domesticated hog weighing less than 120 pounds.

Pig, Suckling - A 6- to 8-week old pig. The meat is light in color, moist, flavorful and tender.

Pigs Feet - The front feet of a hog that have been removed from the shoulder slightly below the knee joints. Pigs feet are available fresh, cured, cooked or pickled.

Pigs in Blankets - Small cocktail sausages wrapped in pastry or bread dough, then baked. The term also refers to breakfast sausage wrapped in pancakes.

Pork - The fresh or salted meat from hogs when prepared for use as food.

Pork Belly - The boneless side portion of the hog remaining after removal of the loin, fatback and spareribs.

Porketta (por-KET-ta) - An Italian-style pork roast seasoned with fennel and garlic.

Primal - The major divisions when a carcass is separated. Pork primal cuts are leg, loin, belly, spareribs, shoulder and jowl.

Prosciutto (proh-SHOO-toh) - An Italian-style ham that has been seasoned, salt-cured and air-dried, but not smoked. This sweet, delicate flavored ham is thinly sliced before using.

Prosciutto Cotto (proh-SHOO-toh KO-tao) - Prosciutto that has been cooked prior to eating.

Prosciutto Crudo (proh-SHOO-toh KROO-doa) - Prosciutto that can be eaten raw because it has been fully cured.

Rack of Pork - The pork equivalent to a rack of lamb. Also called pork rib roast.

Render - A process of cooking meats over low heat to melt and extract fat from connective tissue.

Rib Roast—See Rack of Pork.

Riblet - Pork bones with meat and some fat.

Ribs - A cut of pork from the loin or side. Pork ribs come in three basic cuts—back ribs, spareribs and country-style ribs—depending on the section of the hog where originated.

Ribs, Back - A cut of pork from the blade and center section of the loin. Also called baby back ribs because they are smaller than spareribs.

Ribs, Country-Style - A cut of pork from the rib end of the loin. Country-style ribs are sold as either “slabs” (one piece) or in individual pieces. They are the meatiest variety of ribs.

Ribs, Spareribs - A cut of pork from the belly of the hog. This variety has the least amount of meat per bone, yet a favorite because of their delicious taste. Plan one pound per serving.

Rillettes (ree-YEHT; rih-LEHTS) - A French appetizer made from slowly cooking meat, usually pork or poultry, then mashing it into a paste and packing it into small ramekins. It is served chilled used as a spread on toast.

Roast n. - A large cut of pork from the loin, leg or shoulder. Common pork roasts include crown roast, loin roast and rib roast.

Roasting v. - A method of cooking pork in the oven in an uncovered pan, and without adding liquid to the pan.

Rub - A mixture of spices, herbs and sometimes salt that is used to season pork.

Salami (sah-LAH-mee) - A highly seasoned, Italian-style sausage made from pork and beef. Salami is rarely smoked, yet similar to cervelates in that both styles are cured and air-dried.

Salt Pork - A fatty pork cut from the hog’s sides and belly that has been cured in salt. Usually used as a cooking fat or flavoring.

Sausage (SAW-sihj) - Highly seasoned ground meat typically stuffed into a casing. Available in links, patties and bulk. Sausage products may be cooked or uncooked, cured or uncured and smoked or unsmoked. The sausage family contains hundreds of varieties.

Sautéing (saw-TAY-ing; soh-TAY-ing) - A method of preparing pork by cooking it over direct heat in a small amount of fat.

Scrapple - A Pennsylvania Dutch dish made from chopped “scraps” of pork simmered with cornmeal and seasonings, then packed into a loaf pan and chilled. Scrapple is usually sliced and fried in butter or bacon fat before serving.

Shank - A cut of pork from the upper or lower portion of the foreleg (Picnic shoulder).

Shank End - The lower portion of the foreleg (Picnic shoulder). Also called hock.

Shoulder - Pork from the front leg (either the upper arm Picnic section or lower blade Boston-style section). The terminology for pork shoulder can vary widely depending on the region. The Boston-style section is also called a shoulder butt or Boston Butt.

Smoked; Smoking - A process to preserve and flavor pork by exposing it to smoke, or applying liquid smoke externally as a curing ingredient.

Sow - An adult female hog.

Spam - A registered trademark name for a canned ground pork shoulder and ham product introduced by the Hormel Company in 1937.

Stewing - A method of cooking a less tender cut of pork by simmering it over low heat in enough liquid to cover the meat. Also called cooking in liquid.

Subprimal - Basic cuts of meat from a primal. Subprimal cuts are further produced into retail cuts.

Sweetbreads - The thymus gland or pancreas of calves or lambs, and sometimes young hogs. Pork sweetbreads are slightly stronger in flavor than sweetbreads from other young animals, and usually need to be special ordered.

Tenderloin - An elongated, tender muscle from the loin. Available whole as a tenderloin roast or sliced as tenderloin filets or medallions.

Tripe - The stomach lining from cattle, and sometimes hogs and sheep. It has a subtle flavor and tender texture.

Variety Meats - The edible organs and glands from meat animals. Variety meats include the brain, heart, kidney, pancrease (sweetbreads) and hog intestines (chitterlings).

Wiener (WEE-nuhr) - See Frankfurter.

Wild Boar - A wild hog in which most domesticated hogs were derived. The lean meat is darker and richer in flavor than pork.

Wurst (WURST; VURSHT) - German for “sausage.”


Fuente http://www.porkandhealth.org/PorkPreparation/68/Porktionary.aspx

Alianza Estratégica USMEF - GPCM
















En una interesantísima y productiva reunión de trabajo entre la US Meat Export Federation y el Grupo Promotor del Cerdo Mexicano, se logró un importante acuerdo de alianza estratégica para impulsar acciones conjuntas en beneficio de la industria porcina mexicana.

Sobre la base de que un incremento en el consumo de carne de cerdo en México los productores de cerdo tanto de nuestro país como de los EU se benefician, la US Meat Export Federation ha venido impulsando una inteligente campaña en nuestro país, que promueve el consumo de carne de cerdo, con el fin de incrementar de 15.7 a por lo menos 17 kilogramos el consumo per cápita anual de carne de cerdo en México.

Esta campaña está siendo desarrollada mediante anuncios en revistas, radio y televisión, a través del concepto “Recetas de Don Pepe” www.recetasdedonpepe.com.mx, que enfoca la campaña a fortalecer la percepción de la carne de cerdo como sabrosa y fácil de preparar, y cuenta con una inversión de US$1.2 millones.

El acuerdo de alianza estratégica entre la US Meat Export Federation (USMEF) y el Grupo Promotor del Cerdo Mexicano (GPCM), toca, inicialmente, los siguientes puntos:

1- Coadyuvar en la campaña de promoción al consumo de carne de cerdo que realiza la USMEF, impulsándola a través de los sitios de internet y redes sociales del GPCM (www.cerdomexicano.blogspot.com, www.facebook.com/amigos.cerdomexicano), así como la lista de correos del Consorcio Internacional para el Desarrollo Agrícola y Pecuario (CIDAP) y la cuenta de twitter de @cerdomexicano

2- Impulsar acciones conjuntas para difundir entre los porcicultores primarios vinculados al GPCM, las acciones que en materia de sanidad animal para la certificación de México como país libre de Fiebre Porcina Clásica, está financiando la USMEF

3- Realizar un intercambio permanente para la difusión de los documentos, estudios e información diversa que permitan el fortalecimiento de la Red de Valor del Cerdo

4- Identificar y operar los mecanismos que permitan que el incremento en el consumo de carne de cerdo, se traduzca en una relación ganar – ganar y en beneficios mutuos para los porcicultores Mexicanos y los Norteamericanos

De esta manera, se fortalece la integración de la Red de Valor del Cerdo Mexicano y se busca incrementar su consumo, en beneficio de la industria en general

Francisco Quintana Damián
Director de Vinculación
Grupo Promotor del Cerdo Mexicano, A.C.
Twitter @cerdomexicano
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