Vegetarians Spreading Pink Chicken Lie

I’m a USDA?FSIS Public Health Veterinarian. This stuff is, most likely, mechanically separated poultry. It’s about the right color (the stuff I’m used to seeing looks more like orange sherbet) and consistency. The cardboard box is most likely wax-coated if the stuff is to be used in people food, less likely if it is destined for animal food. The mechanically separated poultry does end up in many products, but not in things that have actual meat fibers (like a chicken strip, etc) The separation is completed in a machine usually called a ‘beehive’ or ‘badder’ and the meat goes one way and the bones go another. There is nothing inherently wrong with the product although in it’s present form it is a little unpalatable. It looks better once it’s turned into sausages. The only time whole carcasses are used are when they are from ‘spent laying hens’ which don’t have much meat on them to begin with. Usually, like you said, picked carcasses are sent for mechanical separation. It’s a perfectly viable source of protein if you’re a carnivore, like me.

Ammonia? Not that I’ve ever seen. It is POSSIBLE that some manufacturers using MSP may use Ammonium Chloride as a food additive, but I doubt it. I don’t believe it can be used as such in the USA. Plants CAN, however, make food destined for other countries. Ammonium Chloride is VERY far from actual Ammonia! The only thing remotely involving ammonia is that most refrigeration systems in large packing plants use ammonia as their ‘freon’. The meat sherbet (as I call it) is usually either packed in one-ton ‘combos’ (Large, plastic lined reinforced cardboard containers about 4x4x4 foot) or frozen in 40 pound containers, like that one in the video. The solid material in the videos is most likely beef or pork. It is not called “mechanically separated” but instead it is called ‘AMR’ for advanced meat recovery, made using water jets on meaty bones instead of a centrifuge on ground-up picked bird carcasses. It separates only MEAT (skeletal muscle) and does not include bone marrow, etc, as does MSP. This is because of what is known as specified risk material or SRM, including nerve ganglia, spinal cord, etc, being included in mechanically separated meats. Chickens have no SRM’s. This material can NOT enter the human food chain due to the incredibly minicule chance of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or ‘mad cow’ being contained in these SRMs. Although pork does not contain the BSE prion or (at least as far as we know) anything even like the BSE prion, the regulations only distinguish ‘poultry’ (chicken, turkey, duck, etc.) from ‘red meat’(beef, pork, lamb, goat, etc). Oh, BTW, in the above post that should have been USDA/FSIS Veterinarian, not USDA?FSIS. FSIS stands for Food Safety Inspection Service. Your tax dollars at work!

IIRC, I was sent here via a link back in May or June. The first thing I remember seeing was the “I understand Twilight” video. I just began reading the blog after that. It is refreshing to come upon someone who is conservative but not, well, assholish about it. The liberal whackjobs spew more hate and vitriol than any conservative, in my opinion. But no, I didn’t Google their ‘research’. I know BS when I hear it… 8^)