This picture of mechanically separated chicken has been floating around the internet for over a year. I think it originated here. According to Fooducate:
Someone figured out in the 1960’s that meat processors can eek eke out a few more percent of profit from chickens, turkeys, pigs, and cows by scraping the bones 100% clean of meat. This is done by machines, not humans, by passing bones leftover after the initial cutting through a high pressure sieve. The paste you see in the picture above is the result.
This paste goes on to become the main ingredient in many a hot dog, bologna, chicken nuggets, pepperoni, salami, jerky etc…
The industry calls this method AMR – Advanced Meat Recovery.
I noticed this weekend as I was eating a seafood version of Thai soup that I didn't mind so much eating the processed rolls of imitation crab made from fish paste. Maybe it's the blood or the bones but the picture above makes me glad I don't regularly eat industrial meat products anymore.
Ok, this pink goo is scarier than anything I can imagine seeing around town Sunday night. Eeeeeewwwwwwww.
Posted by: nancy goodwin | October 29, 2010 at 05:18 PM
A sick thought - I wonder how long I could live off of one box of pink chicken goo.
Posted by: Keith | October 31, 2010 at 01:37 PM
It's taken me three days of calculations. With proper rationing, I think I could live 3.83 years. What's more, I think I can make a form of bubble gum out of it - it being pink clued me in.
Posted by: Keith | November 03, 2010 at 03:17 AM
Another use of this chicken goo could be attic insulation.
Posted by: Keith | November 04, 2010 at 06:21 AM
And pencil eraser heads.
Posted by: Keith | November 05, 2010 at 06:38 AM
Rubber baby buggy bumpers!
Posted by: Keith | November 07, 2010 at 05:35 PM
Anybody ever hear of "Soilent Green"? How do you know if its chicken or??????
Posted by: Gary M Angell | November 07, 2010 at 08:33 PM