A Chinese couple from Sichuan province were appalled to see the meat they bought from a local butcher was glowing blue in the dark after they had hung it on the wall to keep it away from their cat.
But local health officials chided their concerns when they reported the ‘glowing meat’ to Chinese media outlet Sohu, saying the butcher could have purchased cows sold in Changsha, Hunan Province, called ‘garbage beef,’ because the cattle live on garbage in a landfill until they were old enough to be butchered and served on dinner table.
A worker in the landfill who had tasted the ‘garbage beef’ said ‘the taste seems different from normal beef, a little sour,’ perhaps due to some metal from electronic waste, molds and germs they’ve eaten from the garbage.
But according to an old BBC article, the most likely culprit was a bacterium called pseudomonas fluorescens. This type of bacteria were naturally present in the meat and could multiply quickly if not stored in correct room temperature and have a unique feature, it glowed in the dark.
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