[foodpump]

Ah...pre chewed meat....

I'll never forgot at the tender age of 13 our scout master had a special treat in store for us, we did a tour of the local sausage plant. This was in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and the plant had a reputation for getting the cheapest bid on house brand "luncheon meats" and weenies for the supermarket chains

The sight of two guys in white hip waders, using s/s shovels, shoveling "stuff" down the gaping maw of a floor-mounted meat grinder will haunt me for the rest of my life. So will the plant's duty manager interpretation of "meat": See, liver, lungs, etc are organs, and therefore categorized as "offal", but meat is muscle. Weenies (at that plant, anyways) are made with muscle, not offal, which included sphincter muscles, eye and facial muscles.

Someday, you forgot about the Chinese 1000 year eggs, pickled in "natural" sources of ammonia...

 

[brianshaw]

Pre-chewed... pre-masticated... the ultimate convenience food!

 

[drirene]

What if I told you, the meat industry will take all the little scriggly bits of meat, and fat, even from different parts of the animal (the head, the RUMP, the ribs, even the tail maybe), going so far as to scrape down the bones...they'll even combine the scriggly bits from DIFFERENT ANIMALS in the same batch. They'll take these bits, all the nasty things in a pile that you don't even want to eat, and then they'll run them through this giant industrial machine that literally CHOPS THE MEAT MECHANICALLY into little tiny bits. It basically pre-chews the meat for you...it's so gross. PRE CHEWS you guys. It just chops and mixes all the meat and FAT together, and then these people will package it in boxes and add CARBON MONOXIDE GAS (a known POISON to all animals, including HUMANS, according the FDA, CDC and USDA) to keep the meat from oxidizing. They then send this POISON GAS CHOPPED MEAT on trucks into local supermarkets and restaurants. People eat this stuff!

This stuff must be stopped. I'm no expert or anything (I have read a couple of articles I found on google) but that won't stop me from rampant, baseless speculation about potential harmful effects (CANCER! LUPUS! FLOURIDE! VACCINES!) of a product I hadn't heard of until two days ago and have never seen nor used in real life!

What if I told you, there is a product that millions of people around the globe eat on a daily basis, that is based around the SLAUGHTER and processing of young veal calves!! These inhuman barbarians KILL helpless baby cows, and then rip out their stomach and freeze them, grind them, and mix them with chemicals like di-hydrogen monoxide and sodium chloride. This extracts an ENZYME made from calves stomachs that is used in industrial food production!

People actually hook helpless cows up to MACHINES that pull the liquid from inside the animals mechanically...this liquid is often left to SIT OUT at room temperature for several hours or even OVERNIGHT to sour! Then they add this chemically extracted enzyme (remember sodium chloride and di-hydrogen monoxide) to the liquid and heat it up so all the fat, gloppy sour protein chunks coagulate into a mass of lumpy white fat globs. Then they strain this mess and, get this, allow it to just sit there for anywhere from a few weeks to a few years!! Sometimes they even add MOLD on purpose to this stuff. People eat mold and might not even know it! This stuff is RIDDLED with bacteria that just feasts on it. GROSS! People eat this--they sprinkle it on their pasta, put it on pizzas! Both the FDA and the USDA say it is "safe." I'm not buying it!

You gotta love it! :rofl: