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Chow / Video of the Day Lunchtime Quickie: What's For Lunch? NOT McDonald's!
Posted by Kelly O on Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:30 PM
McMouse-Wich? McMouse Deluxe with Cheese? A 3-Piece McRabies Extra Value Meal? Mmm-mm-'Merica!
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One McDonald's isn't the problem. This is the problem:
According to today's New York Times, The "majority of hamburger" now sold in the U.S. now contains fatty slaughterhouse trimmings "the industry once relegated to pet food and cooking oil," "typically including most of the material from the outer surfaces of the carcass" that contains "larger microbiological populations."
This "nasty pink slime," as one FDA microbiologist called it, is now wrung in a centrifuge to remove the fat, and then treated with AMMONIA to "retard spoilage," and turned into "a mashlike substance frozen into blocks or chips".
Thus saving THREE CENTS a pound off production costs. And making the company, Beef Products Inc., a fortune. $440 million/year in revenue.
With the U.S.D.A.’s stamp of approval, the company’s processed beef has become a mainstay in America’s hamburgers. McDonald’s, Burger King and other fast-food giants use it as a component in ground beef, as do grocery chains. The federal school lunch program used an estimated 5.5 million pounds of the processed beef last year alone.
According to today's New York Times, The "majority of hamburger" now sold in the U.S. now contains fatty slaughterhouse trimmings "the industry once relegated to pet food and cooking oil," "typically including most of the material from the outer surfaces of the carcass" that contains "larger microbiological populations."
This "nasty pink slime," as one FDA microbiologist called it, is now wrung in a centrifuge to remove the fat, and then treated with AMMONIA to "retard spoilage," and turned into "a mashlike substance frozen into blocks or chips".
Thus saving THREE CENTS a pound off production costs. And making the company, Beef Products Inc., a fortune. $440 million/year in revenue.
With the U.S.D.A.’s stamp of approval, the company’s processed beef has become a mainstay in America’s hamburgers. McDonald’s, Burger King and other fast-food giants use it as a component in ground beef, as do grocery chains. The federal school lunch program used an estimated 5.5 million pounds of the processed beef last year alone.
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They keep stressing that it was a LIVE mouse.
Would it have been less of a problem if the mouse had been dead?
Would it have been less of a problem if the mouse had been dead?
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@1 McDonalds no longer uses Pink Slime.
http://www.argusleader.com/article/20111…
But that's irrelevant. The food itself is essentially slow motion poison to the consumer and to the environment.
THAT'S what people should be sickened by. Not some poor mouse.
http://www.argusleader.com/article/20111…
But that's irrelevant. The food itself is essentially slow motion poison to the consumer and to the environment.
THAT'S what people should be sickened by. Not some poor mouse.
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I just cannot decide which is more disgusting, this article, or the mystery food shown in this link (a McDonalds product)
http://docakilah.wordpress.com/2011/05/1…
Perhaps a slog-editor will also do a story on it.
http://docakilah.wordpress.com/2011/05/1…
Perhaps a slog-editor will also do a story on it.
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I watched 30 seconds of the video and then skipped ahead in similar increments to see if the entire thing was the same video of the mouse over and over and over. It was either that or people going "A mouse! Can you believe it? A mouse!" or some variant thereof.
I mean, yeah, not good, but there's only so much to say.
Also, leaving file extensions in your youtube video titles should only be done for satire.
I mean, yeah, not good, but there's only so much to say.
Also, leaving file extensions in your youtube video titles should only be done for satire.
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@3, I kind of wonder with the timing of that announcement on Christmas Eve. I do love the quote in the story you linked:
“It’s just a shame that an activist with an agenda can really degrade the safety of our food supply,” said David Theno, an industry consultant who has advised BPI and is credited with turning the Jack in the Box burger chain into a model of food safety after a deadly E. coli outbreak in 1993. He called the BPI process “extraordinarily effective” in making beef safer.
He seems reputable and must be misquoted. I don't know how anyone could support feeding pink slime to people.
“It’s just a shame that an activist with an agenda can really degrade the safety of our food supply,” said David Theno, an industry consultant who has advised BPI and is credited with turning the Jack in the Box burger chain into a model of food safety after a deadly E. coli outbreak in 1993. He called the BPI process “extraordinarily effective” in making beef safer.
He seems reputable and must be misquoted. I don't know how anyone could support feeding pink slime to people.
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