❤What McDonald’s Food Is This?

Say hello to mechanically separated chicken.
Yes, you heard me right! It’s what all fast-food chicken is made of, things like chicken nuggets, patties, and the processed frozen chicken you buy at the supermarket.

The entire chicken is smashed and pressed through a sieve — bones, eyes, guts, and all. it comes out looking like...yip, you got it. Strawberry soft serve icecream! The process known as “advanced meat recovery" or (AMR)is an extremely profitable practice in today’s industrial meat industry. What was once rendered into pet food is now being sold at much higher prices as meat for human consumption. All the chicken is pulverized and blended into a fine slurry; frozen and shaped into various forms that are easily ground into many different meat products.

The meat, which is very cheap trimmings, are used to decrease the bone and marrow content to acceptable USDA levels. Although the USDA requires removal of the spinal cord, nerve tissue that radiates immediately from the spinal cord through the intervertabal foramen, and into the peripheral nervous system, is present in the product. Products containing AMR do not require labeling identifying it’s presence. USDA considers AMR to be meat (as opposed to bone, marrow and nervous tissue), enabling AMR to be sold to consumers as “beef”.

There’s more: because it’s crawling with bacteria, it is washed with Anhydrous Ammonia, which, sadly is approved for use in AMR as an intervention kill step for pathogen contaminated meat. Anhydrous Ammonia which is also used in methamphetamine production is a very dangerous and highly toxic substance that reacts violently with tissue and other substances containing moisture. Many foods from hamburgers, hot dogs and sausages contain AMR as it is a very cheap alternative.

For more information on USDA guidelines for producing AMR, see Section 318.24 in the following document:9CFR318.PDF ()

More information can also be found at USDA’s FSIS website:: http://www.fsis.usda.gov/Science/Beef_Produced_by_AMR_Systems/index.asp and http://origin-www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/rdad/FRPubs/03-038IF.pdf.