Posted on 01/06/2010 11:59:01 AM PST by Nodems2000
Window cleaning chemical injected into fast food hamburger meat
Mike Adams Natural News Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
If you’re in the beef business, what do you do with all the extra cow parts and trimmings that have traditionally been sold off for use in pet food? You scrape them together into a pink mass, inject them with a chemical to kill the e.coli, and sell them to fast food restaurants to make into hamburgers.
That’s what’s been happening all across the USA with beef sold to McDonald’s, Burger King, school lunches and other fast food restaurants, according to a New York Times article. The beef is injected with ammonia, a chemical commonly used in glass cleaning and window cleaning products.
This is all fine with the USDA, which endorses the procedure as a way to make the hamburger beef “safe” enough to eat. Ammonia kills e.coli, you see, and the USDA doesn’t seem to be concerned with the fact that people are eating ammonia in their hamburgers.
This ammonia-injected beef comes from a company called Beef Products, Inc. As NYT reports, the federal school lunch program used a whopping 5.5 million pounds of ammonia-injected beef trimmings from this company in 2008. This company reportedly developed the idea of using ammonia to sterilize beef before selling it for human consumption.
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Aside from the fact that there’s ammonia in the hamburger meat, there’s another problem with this company’s products: The ammonia doesn’t always kill the pathogens. Both e.coli and salmonella have been found contaminating the cow-derived products sold by this company.
This came as a shock to the USDA, which had actually exempted the company’s products from pathogen testing and product recalls. Why was it exempted? Because the ammonia injection process was deemed so effective that the meat products were thought to be safe beyond any question.
What else is in there? As the NYT reports, “The company says its processed beef, a mashlike substance frozen into blocks or chips, is used in a majority of the hamburger sold nationwide. But it has remained little known outside industry and government circles. Federal officials agreed to the company’s request that the ammonia be classified as a ‘processing agent’ and not an ingredient that would be listed on labels.”
Fascinating. So you can inject a beef product with a chemical found in glass cleaning products and simply call it a “processing agent” — with the full permission and approval of the USDA, no less! Does anyone doubt any longer how deeply embedded the USDA is with the beef industry?
Apparently, this practice of injecting fast food beef with ammonia has been a well-kept secret for years. I never knew this was going on, and this news appears to be new information to virtually everyone. The real shocker is that “a majority” of fast food restaurants use this ammonia-injected cow-derived product in their hamburger meat. It sort of makes you wonder: What else is in there that we don’t know about?
“School lunch officials and other customers complained about the taste and smell of the beef,” says the NYT. No wonder. It’s been pumped full of chemicals.
There are already a thousand reasons not to eat fast food. Make this reason number 1,001. Ammonia. It’s not supposed to be there.
You can get the same effect by opening a can of dog food made with beef byproducts, spraying it with ammonia, and swallowing it. That is essentially what you’re eating when you order a fast food burger.
It’s almost enough to make you want to puke. If you do so, please aim it at your windows, because ammonia cuts through grease like nothing else, leaving your windows squeaky clean
I can guess the government answer. More burdensome regulations that do nothing to actually protect the food supply and the consumer but only serve to make it harder for law abiding businesses to make and sell their product.
I buy Amish chicken myself.
Do they have their own teeny-tiny buggies or do they hitch a ride from one of “Der Anglisch” chickens?
This is to avoid using radiation on the meat I suppose ~ that process being too icky and dangerous ~ and here I was just the other day trying to convince my Senator to add an amendment to the health care bill that would allow us to raise our own cattle in cities ~ in our basements.
PPPTH! Thats a wackjob website.
Actually it looks like Ammonia is pretty harmless in low levels for human consumption.
If people actually looked at the things injected or mixed in the foods at grocery stores, they’d never eat anything but lettuce and sticks ever again.
Good thing I don’t look.
If you don’t eat from your garden or buy from a butcher, you’re probably eating something that no one can pronounce or spell.
One thing I love about my little 13 acres in Kentucky is growing my own beef. One calf purchase gives me enough meet for over a year.
I even know my dinner’s name!
New York Times indepth story on Ammonia in Beef
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/us/31meat.html
Chicken unfit for some dog food being fed to your children
Old-hen meat fed to pets and schoolkids (USA Today)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-12-08-hen-meat-school-lunch_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip
Prepare to Suffer, it’s becoming a way of life for many American’s, but I fought back and regained my health ... There no since trying to explain it ...
http://www.esnips.com/doc/ca2cfab1-fedc-4ed5-b430-7b9eb45c8f6a
This is why I buy all my ground beef at Costco....
http://drx.typepad.com/psychotherapyblog/2009/10/playing-e-coli-roulette-with-meat.html#more
I grant you that it isn’t the same thing (in your example above).
But to exempt them from the USDA inspections? No factory processing should ever be exempt just because they do things a certain way. Contamination can always occur, from unepected sources. You could have a great process, where nothing gets contaminated on the line, but have your packaging at the end of the line be contaminated so your final product goes out contaminated. Physical line inspections, which are lax now at best due to limited ability to inspect, need to be done.
:) I'm just posting a link for the story above.
It doesn't sound tasty but this article has the same sense of panic that irradiaton had.
I say BS!.
My guess is the McDonald's is extremely careful and concerned about the quality of meat that goes into the hamburgers they sell.
ML/NJ
The ammonia is mixed with dihydrogen monoxide. Coincidence?
Go ahead, reject the truth my friend because you eat the crap, you need to decide to believe the truth, or live a delusion ... This can be denied, but it is true.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/us/31meat.html
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