" ... Someone figured out in the 1960s that meat processors can eek 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. ..."

" ... There's more: because it's crawling with bacteria, it will be washed with ammonia... Then, because it tastes gross, it will be reflavored artificially. Then, because it is weirdly pink, it will be dyed with artificial color. "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T67DvoH2H3E&feature=related

Certainly, McDonald's has stopped making their "chicken nuggets" that way. Probably they finally left out the eyeballs ?
I will sure have a different look at those "nuggets" in the future ..

That is disgusting, having worked as a cook the first time I saw Mechanically separated Turkey was enough, the consistency (like pink paste), the smell and how it looks after cooking (grey) I will never eat another thing that has "mechanically separated" in the ingredients.

Fish sticks are no different, that video will sure draw some attention to the ignorant with no clue.
Oh yes, lets not forget what they put in the can of soup. Some seriously disgusting stuff.

I saw a documentary lately dealing with the food-industry.

Not funny.

Whenever possible, I avoid buying packed "meat" in super-markets. You have to read VERY carefully to find out, if you are having actually real meat or something glued together in your hands.

In that another show, they showed how much strawberries are really in a strawberry-jogurt. Was something like half of one berry in a 150 grams cup. Rest is flavour. And lots of sugar.

I don`t buy that stuff anymore. I`m mixing my own ones. With real fruits and maybe a little honey.

folks have been making sausage out of 'scraps', blood, brains, organs, bone marrow etc for many hundreds of years. The whole ammonia treatment bit is somewhat gross but still..IMO...chicken nuggests are probably the best thing on McDonalds menu LOL

My experience with chicken nuggets has always been chicken breast, I know coz I look at the nugget after I bite into it... no way they can synthesize the look and texture of chicken breast, right?

The preparation of every piece of processed food will turn your stomach. That is the nature of the game and since 90% of everything you eat is processed you can not really escape it. I guess you could grow your own garden food and raise your own chickens/cows but the majority of the populous can not do that.

I have worked with mechanically separated stuff and it does not bother me to eat it. In fact I was angry when McDonalds went to their new chicken nuggets because the old ones tasted 10x better even though they contained mechanically separated chicken.

Parts is parts.

EEWWWW...

...because fresh poultry products are SOOO not gross...

http://i.imgur.com/SdQOt.jpg (WARNING: some might find this gross... This is from an open market in Mexico).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9B7im8aQjo