Thursday, February 4, 2010

McDonald's Hamburgers, Yes it really is Pink Slime!


"Ammonia may be used by our suppliers as an aid to kill harmful bacteria. This process is approved by the USDA and helps to ensure safe, quality food."

McDonald's posted this on their very own website, to justify why it buys beef chips from Beef Producs Inc.

What are beef chips? Beef chips are the fatty slaughterhouse trimmings, that founder of Beef Products discovered a way to convert into usable lean beef. Mr. Roth and others in the industry had discovered that liquefying the fat and extracting the protein from the trimmings in a centrifuge resulted in a lean product that was desirable to hamburger-makers.

This mixture was previously unusable, because it was so full of e.coli and salmonella that until this process of washing it in ammonia it wasn't usable.

Now what do they do with this pseudo, fringe meat? Serve it to you. The meat eater. You feed it to your children, cause it's cheap. It is your right to do so, but maybe instead of setting your child up for failure it's time to start figuring out the source of all your food!

I started eating raw vegan, because I could no longer find safe food. I got tired of learning of all the way our meat supply has been compromised that it just wasn't worth the work anymore to find clean meat.

Yes it passes the USDA and FDA, but come on let's face it... Are there any other organizations as corrupt as these two? How could you possibly trust them with their rampant disregard for public health.

Don't even bother with the fact that factory farms are so inhumane in the treatment of animals. Even if you hate animals doesn't it bother you what passes for meat? The fact that you have to cook it to kill the bacteria that is on the meat from all the shit that comes with it? Your meat is literally covered in animal feces, because no process can get rid of it all.

Start doing research into your food. At all times. Don't put it in your mouth unless you know where it comes from. Even if you want to eat it, don't do it to your kids.

Please read the links below to learn more about the information in your article, then please move on to google and start searching for the food you eat, to find out where it comes from and how it's made.

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Sources:
New York Times: Safety of Beef Processing Method Is Questioned
Mcdonalds.com: McDonald's FAQ Concerning Ammonia
Beef Product Inc's Process to Convert left-over cow into something that can pass as food: Beef Products Process

2 comments:

  1. I wouldn't eat McDonalds on principle, regardless of the shit they serve up.

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  2. unfortunately 'Anonymous' the pink slime is not limited to McDonalds. Since they represent 70% of beef worldwide, McDonalds essentially controls the market and the slaughterhouse demand.

    Reading up further on Beef Products, they intend to be in 100% of ground beef products. The consumer (us) is the only way to create change.

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