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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.
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!
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