This is one reason why Old Stylers cook meals from scratch and avoid ready meals!

Pandora123_2

ZTD wrote: »

Well, I never thought of that!

So for the people who live in Scotland, Wales, (probably) Northern Ireland, Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands, here is an (*WARNING DON'T USE THIS LINK IN FRONT OF THE KIDS - THE PROXY'S ADVERTS ARE A TAD RACY *) anonymised link. For people in England - you're just going to have to sit tight.

Not any more

The Secret Dangers of Splenda

conradmum

I thought you Old Stylers might like to see a good reason why home-made is better. What do you think this is?




Strawberry ice-cream? Guess again.


Folks, this is mechanically separated chicken, an invention of the late 20th century. Someone figured out in the 1960’s 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.
This paste goes on to become the main ingredient in many a hot dog, bologna, chicken nuggets, pepperoni, salami, jerky etc…
The industry calls this method AMR – Advanced Meat Recovery.
In 2004, as a result of mad cow disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy), the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) ruled that beef could no longer be processed this way, because testing showed that parts of the bovine central nervous system ended up in the meat.
As for products using mechanically separated chicken and pork, FSIS ruled that they are safe to eat, but required them to be labeled as such.
Despite them being safe, FSIS states that no more than 20% of the meat in a hot dog come from mechanically separated pork.
What to do at the supermarket:
It’s always a better to choice to see a real cut of meat at the butcher counter in the supermarket and then decide what you want done with it. Buying something prepared in a factory, such as chicken nuggets, or hot dogs, you’ll always get the worst meat, and it will always be combined with additives and other sources of fat.


http://www.fooducate.com/blog/2009/08/03/guess-whats-in-the-picture-foodlike-substance/

Ladyhawk

Yep - I used to be a poultry buyer and I can confirm that I nearly threw up when I saw this in a factory... it is grim, grim, grim!! I now do not eat poultry....

angeltreats

That is disgusting!

The only chicken we eat comes from whole free range chickens but I hate to think of the many chicken nuggets made of this stuff I must have eaten when I was younger.

misskool

This comes up a lot and I feel in 2 minds about this. First of all, they use every single piece of meat on the animal and no waste. Of course, on OS, we would use it all and make chicken stock and strip everything down to the bone etc. But this is a good way of reducing waste (it's not nice looking) but chemically it's chicken.

It costs a lot to raise animals, there should be as little waste as possible.

Of course, every person reading this will think I'm nuts and that it's completely wrong but ah well.

Lotus-eater

Although I agree with you to a certain extent misskool, I'm not sure how much of the recovered meat, is actually meat.
Not only that, but you must have missed this bit in the OP
and it will always be combined with additives and other sources of fat.
Surely the ultimate reason to be OS?
I tend to go for the HFW way of using the whole animal, I think that's a better way of doing it. Although I may be hard pressed to give a good account in a discussion of the differences between the two processes.

StrawberryYogurt

I dont think the recovered meat that that picture shows bothers me as much as what will be added to it! All the additives etc....

I may be totally sick here, but that picture does NOT gross me out. Hmm maybe I am an oddball lol

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valk_scot

Well, I wouldn't eat it...

....but when you look at the pictures of little kids dying of malnutrition on the news, you start thinking that perhaps this is just another type of Waste Not Want Not, eh? It may be chicken slurry and fat but it's undoubtably got protein and calories and a few basic nutrients in it. If we're going to raise chickens rather than use the same resources to produce a lot more by way of vegetable and cereal crops and thus feed more people all round, then perhaps we in the so called advanced nations deserve to eat this crap.

Would rather go 100% vegetarian though! In the meanwhile I'll stick to buying less but locally produced decent quality meat and chicken and make the most of every scrap.

misskool

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Although I agree with you to a certain extent misskool, I'm not sure how much of the recovered meat, is actually meat.
Not only that, but you must have missed this bit in the OP
and it will always be combined with additives and other sources of fat.
Surely the ultimate reason to be OS?
I tend to go for the HFW way of using the whole animal, I think that's a better way of doing it. Although I may be hard pressed to give a good account in a discussion of the differences between the two processes.

The thing about additives is that it could be something innocuous like salt, wheat rusk or things we would add to "normal" food without thinking. Of course, things like sulphites and preservatives are not nice.

Personally, I eat the whole animal but I don't really see why people are so bothered against mechanically recovered meat.

jinky67

That is utterly gross_pale__pale_

So glad I dont eat a load of processed garbage:D