In July 2007 I became upset after noticing the amount of water contained in the John Morrell center cut ham steaks packeged in vacuum sealed plastic wrapping. I had purchased two of the ham steaks so with the second one I used some Bounty paper towels, weighed them and then pressed as much water as I could out of the ham into the paper towels and weighed them again. The weight of the water absorbed by the paper towels = 27% of the stated weight of the ham steak. You encounter the same situation when you buy whole chickens from Claxton or Tyson. It's probably the same with other poultry packing houses. Claxton Poultry is about twenty five miles from here so I called the plant and a supervisor told me that they are allowed to put the water in there. The water content of the Claxton chicken was 23%, counting the weight of the sanitary napkin looking thing in the package with the chicken. The weight of the chicken was not stated on the Claxton package but on the Harvey's grocery store meat market weight/price per lb./price lable. I believe the reason this goes on is because so many people are apathetic to the situation, just as they are about politics. The only way I know to beat unscrupulous market place practices is to grow your own.