which of these tasty products produced by advanced meat recovery systems sounds the most appealing to you?

Beef Trimmings, Finely Textured (BTFT) is winning this no doubt

yeah that was my choice too but I'm going to let "Partially Defatted Chopped Beef (PDCB)" soak a little in the ol' short term memory before voting

What the hell is that pink thing?

oh haw sorry, the picture is a little misleading. it's a picture of mechanically separated chicken, which is a step below meat products derived from advanced meat recovery systems.

mcdonald's strawberry beefshake

p.s. this article is a good read

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/us/31meat.html?pagewanted=all

In 1997, following tests indicating that central nervous system (CNS) tissue was showing up in mechanically removed meat, FSIS issued a directive to its inspectors instructing them to ensure that spinal cord tissue was removed from bones before the AMR process.

aw guys, you shouldn't have, so thoughtful of you

so that premium black angus one, that's a burger king gourmet input, right?

yeah it costs 39 cents extra iirc

premium scrapings, boy i need to re-read 1984 and maybe think about whether orwell wasn't a fucking optimist

course, animal famr would probably be more apt

good wired article on AMR

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2004/01/61847

http://www.wired.com/news/images/full/schematic2_f.jpg

soft serve chicken is amazing

xp the last arrow in the bottom right of the diagram goes straight into the gaping maw of humanity (not pictured) btw

i love this place

i mean here in a country where we grow and make actual food, i remember a machine like that for peeling potatoes.

sonned by dyao in a finely textured beef.

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so this is all like sausages, init?

oh good lord is that chicken thing real

gahghhhhhhhhh

"Meat recovered using the advanced method is usually added to processed meat products like sausage, hot dogs or taco toppings."

oh snap then they drop this yo
"the spread of mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the brain-wasting disease that devastated the beef industry in the United Kingdom in the 1990s"

almost totally forgot abt that shit yo

went with anus finely textured beef.

Bleargh @ all this.

sonned by dyao in a finely textured beef.

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lols

man i am so glad fast food/processed food tastes and smells like ass to me. my senses are doing a damn precise job!

advanced meat recovery systems is such a prime example of the kind of shit that happens when sociopaths are allowed to interpret capitalism and be rewarded for it, which obv happened a long time ago; we just have better and more efficient technology now.

whatever happened to the vat-grown meat idea, that's what i want to know!

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anus finely textured beef. anus finely textured beef. anus finely textured beef. anus finely textured beef. anus finely textured beef. anus finely textured beef. anus finely textured beef. anus finely textured beef. anus finely textured beef.

brings new meaning to the colloquialism abt meat on yr bones

it's so animal-friendly, though: every gram of CNS matter you eat is 1.10231e-6 less beeve that must die for your dinner (assuming a conservative beeve weight of 2000lbs)

that's right, my computer comes with a calculator

This is what the Native Americans did to use every part of the buffalo. It's a fine American tradition.

See also, traditional witicism in regard to pork sausage: "We use everything but the squeal!"

i feel ill

Abstract
A low temperature rendering process for converting animal trimmings to a meat product which can be classified as finely textured meat. The low temperature rendering process includes the steps of heating desinewed animal trimmings in a heat exchanger having a first-in and first-out arrangement to provide heating of the desinewed animal trimmings to a temperature in the range of about 90° F. to about 110° F. to form a heated slurry; separating a solids stream and a liquids stream from the heated slurry, the solids stream containing an increased amount of protein and moisture, and the liquids stream containing an increased amount of tallow, water soluble protein, and moisture; separating a heavy phase and a light phase from the liquids stream, the heavy phase containing an increased amount of moisture and water soluble protein, and the light phase containing an increased amount of tallow; and combining the solids stream and the heavy phase to form a meat product.

blorf

i can't tell which would be worse, having to do this for a living or being charged with conceiving this in the first place

pinkslimeisamyth.com

beef is beef

my lean cuisine has something in the ingredients list called "cooked chicken powder."

We're all pink on the inside

I thought about this stuff while getting a meatball marinara sub from subway yesterday

i saw someone ordering that last time i was at subway and thought "yeahhh i dunno about subway meatballs"

not that a turkey sandwich from there is much less scary.