Mechanically recovered meat!!!

ecangel24

I'd never never eat them!
Give them away, your not going to starve without them.
Save it untill your childrens harvest festival. do they still take food in for that?
I don't think there is anything wrong in not feeding your family what is really just dog food.

Nelski

I love hot dogs:o but i try not to think where they have come from I just enjoy them:o

2cats1kid

I hate hot dogs sausages but DD loves them, so she would get them as a treat. She normally eats healthily, so one meal of hot dogs wouldn't kill her. Actually, I have a couple of tins in my "emergency preparedness" stash as there isn't much in the way of tinned meat/fish that she will eat, so I figured yukky and unhealthy as they are, I was better off having things in the stash that would at least get eaten, rather than healthy stuff she'll turn her nose up at.

mrbadexample

I'd eat them. I don't care if it's made of ears, hooves and gonads, as long as it tastes ok.

mrbadexample

Actually, I've been thinking about this. This is a small quote from the Wikipedia website linked to above:

"The practice of mechanically harvesting meat that would otherwise be unusable dates back to the 1950s, when mechanical hand tools were developed to help remove these scraps and minimize waste. By the 1960s, machines were developed that did this more efficiently and automatically, in a process designed by Vincent Gerbino. This allowed companies to cheaply bulk up or extend their products and, in turn, offer these products to the public for a lower price."

So, it's all about getting every last scrap of useable meat from whatever carcass is being chopped up, and minimizing waste. This strikes me as being extremely MSE! Surely that's what we're all about when it comes to the rubber chicken? Getting the most value from one chook?

So, should we all be eating mechanically recovered meat?

Discuss.....

count_rostov

Chris25 wrote: »

I once won a tin at a fete (coupled with an out-of-date tin of peas ) then passed them onto the next fete going. As other posters have said, although you may not want them, there will be others that would use them.

yes, even if they're only going to need them to have something to donate to the next fete!

coolcait

:eek: :eek:
Hotdogs actually contain meat??!! :eek:

Who'da guessed

SatansPlaym8

I'd eat them i have no problems with mechanically recovered meat.
However since you do have a problem with how about offering them to a neighbour one with children might enjoy a nice treat.

Chris25

count_rostov wrote: »

yes, even if they're only going to need them to have something to donate to the next fete!

I saw a coffee set once that went round Playgroup, Nursery and School as a raffle prize then ended up at the school jumble sale. Haven't seen it for many years now so presumeably the person who bought it has been very happy with it. Or else it's all broken

coolcait

More seriously, I think mrbadexample makes a good point.

I don't see anything intrinsically wrong with a process which allows us to get the maximum amount of meat from a carcass. I think the principle is sound.

I don't see anything wrong with the mechanics of the process either. It's not that dissimilar to the way I get bits of chicken into my chicken soup...

Brain and spinal cord are edible. Using them up in sausage type products makes sense, and has been done for years in the UK and around the world. So that's not a problem either.

It only became an issue when humans effectively created BSE by feeding animal remains (meat and bonemeal) to cows :mad: :mad:

However, given the relative likelihood of getting variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease from eating one tin of hotdogs, or going hungry from not eating it... the latter is far more likely than the former, in my opinion, especially at certain times of the pay cycle

So, I would eat it...

(in theory. In reality, OH and the kids would have scoffed the lot while I was weighing up the case for and against! ) :rotfl: :rotfl: