Sounds like you haven';t seen or heard anything about it, really.
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On 1/4/2011 5:33 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Why? It's all in the name. My friend the chef chemically separates meat from
> chicken carcasses because he hasn't got time to pick at them nor can afford
> to waste them. He does this by the refined and very advanced technique of
> boiling them in salted water to make stock and soup. :-)
> I could be pedantic (who, me?) and point out that removing meat from the bone
> with a knife is 'mechanical'. So is ripping it off by hand, in some sense.
> I seem to remember that mechanical separation of chicken is done on carcasses
> after the breast and leg/thigh sections have been sliced off. I understood
> that some sort of centrifuging was involved. Because a lot of small bones
> like ribs are still in there, it is then converted to a paste and cooked to
> 'manufactured' meat found in chicken nuggets, sausages, sandwich loaf and so
> on. I'd suggest that this product is possibly more healthy than regular
> chicken from a fast food joint because (with the exception of nuggets) it
> often hasn't been coated in batter and deep fried. It also contains
> proportions of bone and bone marrow which are quite healthy products (ask any
> dog) and high in calcium.
> Of course, like any minced product it requires some preservative because they
> go bad quickly - the processing heats it slightly and the surface area is
> immense. And of course it tastes foul. But it isn't necessarily any worse for
> you than many other forms of meat, could be healthier in some ways and does
> recover material that would otherwise be wasted or devalued as animal feed.
>
> You are just responding squeamishly to the industrial style nomenclature.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 05/01/2011, at 1:06 AM, John Hermanson wrote:
>
>> Speaking of fast food, have you ever read about "mechanically separated"
>> chicken used in some chicken nuggets? MacDonalds doesn't do this, but
>> this type of "food" should be illegal.
>
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