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
What, exactly, do you think that NYT article says?
Is this anything that 'low carb' diet afficianados should be concerned about???
Isn't ammonia .... a poisonous substance??
Represented by Dennis R. Johnson, a top lawyer and lobbyist for the meat industry, Beef Products prevailed on the question of whether ammonia should be listed as an ingredient, arguing that the government had just decided against requiring another company to list a chemical used in treating poultry.
School lunch officials said they ultimately agreed to use the treated meat because it shaved about 3 cents off the cost of making a pound of ground beef.“Several packers have unofficially raised concern regarding the use of the product since the perception of quality is inferior,” the 2002 memo said. “But will use product to obtain lower bid.”
In 2004, lunch officials increased the amount of Beef Products meat allowed in its hamburgers to 15 percent, from 10 percent, to increase savings. In a taste test at the time, some school children favored burgers with higher amounts of processed beef.
Beef Products does not disclose its earnings, but its reported production of seven million pounds a week would generate about $440 million in annual revenue, according to industry records.
I’ve read all 4 pages, and several related articles, have you?
Then they take the ammonia laced meat and place it in between two slices of bread.
Back before chloro-fluoro-hydrocarbons ammonia was used in refrigeration systems. It was not unusual for it to come into contact with food.
As far as mixing it with hamburger made out of "scraps" I'm kind of concerned they're getting too much connective tissues in there ~
Yes, and I summarized what I thought in post 10 above.
So, rather than cutting and pasting from the article, what do you think it means?
Without it Japanese cooking would definitely be bland ~ just a bunch of raw fish and boiled rice.
I fur shur can't eat that!
As for myself.........the jury's out.
I didn't take it that way. Thanks for the clarification though.
I think the point he is trying to make here is the FDA is declaring this Toxic Chemical using in house hold cleaning products as now being a safe food additive. The FDA is being very hypocritical here frankly, they are bought off just like the Pharmsueticals by off the CDC (and hire most of the CDC employees when they leave) in return for little favors. I’m sorry to have to tell you this, the FDA is corrupt. But why change the subject, you want to change the argument to why Mike Adams used the term Window Cleaning agent instead of just Ammonia? Sounds like somebody is in some real denial ...
Believe it or not, there is a point to be made about the dangers of Gluten. Point 6 in that list is actually true. Along with Diabetes and CVD.
Two whole beef patties
Special sauce
Lettuce Cheese
Pickles Ammonia
On a Sesame Seed Bun
- To think I’ve been singing it wrong all these years.
Do they have beards?
DHMO is some pretty nasty stuff. I was reading on some web site that it is in EVERY stream, brook, river, pond and lake in the world. That stuff is just evil.
Here is the rebuttle piece
And McDonalds does use the “Window Cleaner Laden Beef” ;) after all, you don’t get 99cent burgers without the slop sweepings from the floor, gotta kill all that entrail bacteria somehow ...
I was asking about the point of the NYT article, which is the basis for the Natural Times article.
So, after reading the 4 page article on the NYT website, what do you think was the main point?
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