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
“dihydrogen monoxide”
Wow! Isn’t that the chemical compound that kills more people every year than all others combined??? What the Hell are they doing allowing it to be anywhere near food?!
I can’t reveal my source but I know for a fact that McDonald’s pickles are soaked in ethanoic acid.
“To be honest, I haven’t eating ground beef in over a decade, it’s garbage meat, period.”
No, it is not. It is good meat but ground, that is all. Your childish (read: ignorant) views of this world are astounding.
Next time, try a half a cup of windex to every pound of ground round.
They are even finding ammonia in baby diapers!
So, combined with the dihydrogen monoxide, we’re just going to need to throw out babies before they pollute the planet? Man, I’m glad I lived past my early pollution days.
Not to mention babies emission of greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide, methane, sulphur dioxide and gaseous dihydrogen monoxide. No wonder the enviroweenies want to see fewer of them.
//One calf purchase gives me enough meet for over a year.//
Is the meat still good for that long I guess. Have you ever considered two slaughters a year and sell what you did not save.
>>Is the meat still good for that long I guess. Have you ever considered two slaughters a year and sell what you did not save.<<
One step at a time. :)
i’m no chemist - but wouldn’t there be a difference between chemically mfgd ammonia and naturally occuring ammonia in an organism?
I don’t know. I guess that depends upon the manufacturing process. How many chemical versions of ammonia are there?
Bread....*lolz*
Mr. Roth eventually settled on ammonia, which had been shown to suppress spoilage. Meat is sent through pipes where it is exposed to ammonia gas, and then flash frozen and compressed — all steps that help kill pathogens, company research found.It seems the writer wanted his shock value maximized, so "inject" seems to be the way to go.
ping :)
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