Hottest Photo on Internet: Mechanically Separated Meat
This photo of pink paste has been spoiling appetites all over the Internet lately, and with good reason -- you are likely eating that gooey mess. It is mechanically separated meat, and it is the main ingredient of such goodies as hot dogs, bologna, salami, and some turkey and chicken products.
The web site Fooducate explains in stomach-turning detail:
Someone figured out in the 1960s that meat processors can eek out a few more percent of profit from chickens, turkeys, pigs, and cows by scraping the bones 100% clean of meat. This is done by machines, not humans, by passing bones leftover after the initial cutting through a high pressure sieve. The paste you see in the picture above is the result.
The site Early Onset of Night continues the appetizing process:
There's more: because it's crawling with bacteria, it will be washed with ammonia... Then, because it tastes gross, it will be reflavored artificially. Then, because it is weirdly pink, it will be dyed with artificial color.
But, hey, at least it tastes good, right?
High five, America!
If you want to see if you're eating this, just check the label on your packaged food. The USDA requires foods with mechanically separated poultry to be labeled as containing "mechanically separated chicken or turkey" in their ingredients. In 2004 it banned the use of mechanically separated beef, saying it "is considered inedible and is prohibited for use as human food."
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Even though it looks gross, if the meet is being butchered quickly and the machines properly cleaned its not any less safe than other forms of meet, and as has been said the ammonia stuff is false.
I've seen videos of the stuff being made, and its color varies depending on what animal was run through the machine.
Its an effective and cheap way to get more food out of the animals we kill. And since its the same meet and marrow (which is very flavorful) I doubt it needs re-flavoring.
Plus, it looks like meat soft serve. And that's pretty damn awesome.
I want a hot dog now...
The only trouble with this article is that it's inaccurate (in part). It probably is mechanically separated meat, but the part about it being soaked in ammonia is just plain wrong. Check it out on Snopes.com for a more accurate portrayal of the story.
Do we question nothing anymore? Seriously, people view a photo of a pink tube-like substance, and they get all irate, disgusted, and assume it's mechanically separated meat, with no proof? Huh.
Let's think about this... It is being put into CARDBOARD. Anything meat like would disintegrate the cardboard because of it is water based. If it were msm (mechanically separated meat) it would need to be placed in a food grade container. Any health inspector would shut them down instantly if they saw meat going into cardboard. Also, as Tom Super intelligently pointed out, this kind of stuff is regulated pretty heavily.
If I were to guess what it is, chicken nugget contents wouldn't even cross my mind. Now, foam, insulation, or heck even foam insulation would be where I put my money.
In Britain chef Jamie Oliver used to go to schools and show them how many fast food items are made from this stuff. Most children who saw his demonstrations wouldn't touch burgers, or chicken nuggets again, but when he tried the same demonstrations in American schools many kids said they'd still eat it!
I refuse to eat anything from fast food joints now I know what goes into the stuff they sell, and the only burgers I'll eat are ones I made myself from meat I'm willing to grind myself. Ditto for sausages of any kind - I buy ONLY from local manufacturers who are willing to let me see the process of making them.
WOW UNBELIEVABLE, NOT FIT TO FEED A DOG IS RIGHT !!! Thanks, Hugh
I suppose you think you are so much better than MS, AL and TN
Is it because you are the richest state? I doubt it. I have seen you Californicators all over the states. You bring your own traffic laws and show little respect for others. We in MS clean the meat off the bone when we dress our kills. Same with fish. I have seen you people fillet a bass and throw the backbone (full of meat) in the lake. We kill what we eat and eat what we kill and don't waste it. The fact that the food processors scrape the bone clean just makes sense. It is meat. Sorry you have to see it, but there it is.
Like the Cali shopper said, I dont eat cattle that are killed, I get my beef at the grocery store!
...out of money and.. where can I get a bowl of this glop?