On Apr 4, 4:53*pm, Sqwertz > wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:59:30 -0800, Mark Thorson wrote:
> > They'd like you to know pink slime is 100% beef.
> > Also, they'd just like to say . . . um . . .
> > pink slime is 100% beef.
>
> >http://www.openmarket.org/2012/04/03...-slimy-tactics...
>
> Everybody getting upset because they hide this stuff in hamburger, but
> the same thing is done with chicken. *Bones are sent to meat recovery
> plants and th meat is scraped from the bones and mixed with skin and
> fat and treated with ammonia, just like the beef. *It is then used to
> make hot dogs, bologna, chicken nuggets, and as fillers in all sorts
> of other foods. *Instead of 15-20% fake beef, some of these items
> contain 95%+ ammonia-treated chicken scrapings.
>
> I'm sure Oscar Mayer and Sara Lee are trying to keep a low profile
> right about, because that chicken shit (AKA Mechanically Separated
> Chicken) is even nastier than the beef version. *The media just hasn't
> promoted it yet. *But they will.

But Mechanically Separated Chicken is listed in the ingredients as
Mechanically Separated Chicken. The LFTB maker wants to just call
their product, "Beef."
>
> -sw

--Bryan