researchers dissect chicken nuggets. by-product of pink slime?

[Crono]

Unnecessary paranoia.
Where I'm from, we eat the chicken with the bones.

What exactly is so bad about eating chicken cartilage, bones, and organs?

It just grosses people out. It's safer than what people were eating a century ago, or the obvious real health risks, such as overindulging to the point of obesity on even non-gross overprocessed meat.

Anyone who is really bothered by it can choose not to buy or eat it.

 

[destrekor]

Do you guys eat hot dogs? I put one under a microscope once and I'd say less than 20% was actually muscle tissue.

Sadly, that's not even the worst of it when it comes to hot dogs, and most sausages and sausage-like products... that prize are the nitrates.

Nitrates are, in the end, nearly impossible to avoid in reality, but it's a damn good idea to moderate your short and long-term intake of them.
I'll eat hot dogs and brats and what not, but it's a good idea to avoid eating them multiple times a week, for instance.

 

[blurredvision]

I'm no nutritionologist, but isn't there lots of good shit in the other parts of the chicken? We tend to eat the muscle because it's the most appetizing.

This is what I don't understand. We'll eat chicken muscle with the skin on top, rip it right off the bone. We'll cut up every part of a cow and eat it, rip meat right off it's ribs, but as soon as you mix some lesser known parts of the cow or chicken and process it, everybody freaks the fuck out.

Perception is a bitch.

 

[blurredvision]

Cant resist chicken nuggets and sweet and sour sauce.. Havent had one in almost a year though

So you can resist it?

 

[Rakehellion]

Yes, and pulverized bone is not one of them.

There are no nutrients in bone? Is that why they use them to make soup and serve marrow at high-end restaurants?

 

[Eug]

I have ordered bone marrow in a restaurant before. Delicious. It should be, since it's mostly fat.

 

[Ns1]

There are no nutrients in bone? Is that why they use them to make soup and serve marrow at high-end restaurants?

When I eat marrow I eat the delicious insides spread on bread. I don't crush the bone with a hammer and eat the actual bone.

 

[BoberFett]

I thought one of the things we were supposed to love about the Native Americans was how they used every part of the animal and didn't waste anything?

Now people are freaking out about using every part of the animal.

Come on people, think.


Edit: And now I kind of want to run over to the McDonald's across the street and get me some nuggets...

 

[MrDudeMan]

I love mcnuggets so much. They are delicious.

 

[Leros]

If you don't like pink slime, you hate America.

 

[Agent11]

Why do people keep saying that's McDonald's chicken nugget. The picture is Wendy's nuggets and not McDonald's. Anyone who doesn't know by looking at the picture doesn't know their nuggets.

They don't look like Wendy's nuggets to me... And I used to work at a Wendy's. Also Wendy's claims 100% white meat, so if they were they would be crucified for false advertising.

 

[Colt45]

«mechanically deboned» means they throw what's left of the chicken into a blender. (or force it through a screen, whatever).

This might have been news in the 60's.

 

[Colt45]

Also Wendy's claims 100% white meat, so if they were they would be crucified for false advertising.

100% white meat. Not 100% white meat. If that makes sense.

So they take the breast part of the chicken (after 95% of the breast has been removed to be sold). So you get breast bits, bone, skin, and cartilage. All the meat is white, but it ain't all meat. Then they shove it through the slurry-izer.

That's my theory at least. Alternate theory is that "white meat" has no legal definition.

 

[sportage]

Is anyone really that surprised by the ingredients in a nugget?
I mean really?
Considering all that yummy taste comes from artificial additives, and anyone that partakes of nuggets on a regular basis probably weighs 300 pounds, or more.

 

[destrekor]

100% white meat. Not 100% white meat. If that makes sense.

So they take the breast part of the chicken (after 95% of the breast has been removed to be sold). So you get breast bits, bone, skin, and cartilage. All the meat is white, but it ain't all meat. Then they shove it through the slurry-izer.

That's my theory at least. Alternate theory is that "white meat" has no legal definition.

That would be mechanically-separated product with a very limited scope of included carcass leftovers.

It's gotta be left overs, just due to the cost of nuggets, but it's fairly "whole."

 

[Zeze]

Pretty sure that people who eat McDonalds don't give a shit about health lol

Sort of like trying to explain harm of drugs to a meth head

1. They never said this is McDonald's nuggets. Don't they advertise 'all white meat'? There has to be some merit in that. The nuggets in the article must be those super cheap '$5.99 for 80' supermarket kinds.

2. Someone tell me if 'pink slime' is actually bad for your health scientifically and medically? Connective tissue and cartilage or not, how is that 'bad' for you?

 

[destrekor]

1. They never said this is McDonald's nuggets. Don't they advertise 'all white meat'? There has to be some merit in that. The nuggets in the article must be those super cheap '$5.99 for 80' supermarket kinds.

2. Someone tell me if 'pink slime' is actually bad for your health scientifically and medically? Connective tissue and cartilage or not, how is that 'bad' for you?

It's not.

The only thing that MAY be bad, if it is at all, is the additives to make it safe (the preservatives, antibiotics, etc) and those that help shape texture and flavor (like anti-foaming agents and whatnot).

Pink slime flies in the face of the whole-foods, non-GMO gluten-free hippie way of life - but that's MOSTLY it. Their might be some preservatives and additives we could all do without, but those same chemicals I can almost guarantee we are consuming in other products that don't appear nearly as suspect.

It's safe and healthy.


The same type of product for beef was accepted and approved as safe for the longest time. The ONLY reason it was banned from human consumption in recent times is due to the worry of BSE (mad cow). Since it's getting all that connective tissue and whatnot, there's a slightly stronger chance of being served infected neural cells - so all forms of mechanically-separated beef were barred from use in human food. If not for BSE, it'd be safe for humans.

That same very specific threat doesn't exist with other livestock, so true health and safety concerns do not exist.

 

[WelshBloke]

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2. Someone tell me if 'pink slime' is actually bad for your health scientifically and medically? Connective tissue and cartilage or not, how is that 'bad' for you?

I don't think it's the shitty "meat" thats bad for you, it's the chemicals that they use to make the shitty "meat" usable that may be bad for you.

 

[Kaido]

If you don't like pink slime, you hate America.

Why did I picture Ron Burgundy saying that? :awe:

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Newsflash - most steaks are a mix of muscle, fat, and bone too. And OMG - they sometimes line the organs of an animal.

People eat bovine liver, eyes, testicles, etc. all the time.

Not that I'm defending chicken nuggets. But it is not news that people put some disgusting crap in their mouths. If you grind up an animal into a paste and mold it into a simulated shape, there's gonna be a mix of whatever was in the animal in that shape.

 

[highland145]

chitlins anyone?

 

[diesbudt]

Why did I picture Ron Burgundy saying that? :awe:

Me too. Meeee too.

 

[diesbudt]

1. They never said this is McDonald's nuggets. Don't they advertise 'all white meat'? There has to be some merit in that. The nuggets in the article must be those super cheap '$5.99 for 80' supermarket kinds.

2. Someone tell me if 'pink slime' is actually bad for your health scientifically and medically? Connective tissue and cartilage or not, how is that 'bad' for you?

This is a good question. Is this store bought frozen chicken nuggets, or Fast food cooked ones? Those could be 2 vastly different combinations and be under 2 very different regulations.

 

[Juddog]

Pretty sure that people who eat McDonalds don't give a shit about health lol

Sort of like trying to explain harm of drugs to a meth head

^^ This. Everybody with even half a brain knows that chicken nuggets are not a quality food to put into your body.

 

[Pardus]

McDonald's is cancer in a box. No one should EVER eat there.