Well I can't say I'm too bothered by the chicken paste. That's the nature of highly processed foods.

The original video is an opinion piece, of course. My own opinion is that plenty of foods are "gross" when they are not in their final prepared state. Yet they are quite tasty when completed, as have been McDonald's chicken nuggets on the rare occasions when I've eaten them.

Naw, I'm more country than a "good ole boy."

The jerks throwing piglets are dumb; it just teaches the pigs that you'll hurt them, and pigs are dangerous enough as it is.

It's the whole notion that somehow food animals are pets and should be treated the same as them that gets me, which isn't the case. Unless they're rabbits in hutches. Then it's fine to name them, pet them, put them in an open enclosure to let them hop around just to see how cute they are, and then selectively kill them for a nice lunch.

Chickens, OTOH, are vile and pretty much deserve anything handed to them by way of rough treatment.

I've known one too many person who thinks pork chops grow on trees as well. I once had a girl stop dating me after I had strung up a deer for skinning and butchering.

"How could you hurt a defenseless animal!"

My favorite quote of all time is from a book called "Fast Food Nation"


Thank the industrialized meat packing operations of today for that fun little fact.

Beyond that of course is that much of what you eat is based on one little thing, corn. Snack foods, soda, the slab of cow on your plate (this is also why they recently have had e. coli issues, surprisingly cows aren't meant to eat corn), etc, etc. So you are eating high energy foods, often, which leads to obesity. There is also issues related to the nature of the centralized feed lot operations too. I.E., the animals are generally of ill health, so all of them are packed full of anti-biotics to keep them from kicking off. Thus leading to anti-biotic resistant bacteria.

The food industry, a wonderful thing...

Having lived in the country for my fist 13 years I know full well where meat is procured. Heck our class field trip for the 8th grade was to go the the local slaughterhouse. Having seen what I saw at the time when we moved to the big ole city I decided to forget all I knew and just become one of those dumb city folks who think it just magically appears under cellophane.


Wheels

Well to be honest i was just eating some (from Mc) when i thought i might google to find out how it's made.
I did not really like it lol, and I later learned that McD. does NOT produce it's chicken McNuggets the way it is shown in the first video any more - not since some years, that is.

But pre-processed nuggets ARE made of this "pink slime" as the industry itself calls it, don't know of other fast food restaurants though.
In those endless sausage they put all in, from claws to eyes, innards, bones scraped (the latter is even ok i think compared to the others), but then this pulp is swarming with bacteria, which is why again it is treated with ammonia and antibiotics. Ammonia gives it a strange smell and taste (but it's still in it!), so it again is treated with (artificial) flavours, salt and lots of sugar.

So talking about an opinionated vid is certainly right, and it is indeed my opinion that i do not like it - especially when i buy this as a so-called high quality ("master") food for a LOT of dollars. Nothing against using all and being against this "throw-it-away mentality", but especially when you look at Wendy's or McD.'s package cult of blown up plastic and paper around a little food you cannot really say that this all is done to be sustainable or environment friendly.


I had a McRib yesterday, but i better not research what is in there ..

When I was sixteen I worked in two shops which were part of the Dewhurst butchers chain.

You really would not want to know what goes into sausages. There will be an even more cavalier attitude to ingredients nowadays.

Don't bother at all unless you can see them being made - and make your own burgers.

I started transitioning to a paleo diet recently. I only eat grass fed beef. I have eliminated almost all of the sugars from my diet except fruit. I do not eat ANY corporate food.

No drinks with sugar
No pasta
No big breads. Flat breads only.
No potatoes

My dinners are protein and veggies only.

I only drink water, milk, unsweet iced tea, coffee and beer.

Doing what I can to avoid the awful first world diseases.

Radar, I'm doing pretty much the same. Man, it's the bread I miss the most and will have some every few days.

Moving from NY to TX helped. A lot of the very good bread products I loved so much are simply not available anymore so, those habits were broken for me, no will power required.

Watching the older generations of my family suffer through avoidable diseases is a strong motivator

It wasn't that part that really disgusted me, it was near the end where someone is torturing a pig by crushing its snout with a vice grip or something like that. Did you watch that video to the end?