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Ammonia injected in school lunches
Ammonia injected in school lunches http://www.naturalnews.com/027872_am..._products.html (NaturalNews) 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. |
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Ammonia injected in school lunches
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 17:51:38 -0000, "john" wrote:
The beef is injected with ammonia, a chemical commonly used in glass cleaning and window cleaning products. You mean like dihydrogen monoxide is - wow. Ban it now. 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. Unless they are eating the hamburgers raw, they are not. Ammonia is a gas. At low temperatures it is soluble in water, at high temperatures it is driven off. If they are eating any it is joining the small amount the human body produces naturally. Any nutritionalist should be familiar with the urea cycle as ammonia is naturally synthesised in the human body by amino acid metabolism. Salt of hartshorn (baker's ammonia) originally made from ground antlers of Reindeer (organic you see) is also used in many Scandinavian cooking recipes as well as Mennonite Ammonia cookies. It is an ingredient of many old "natural" cough and bronchitis remedies. This company reportedly developed the idea of using ammonia to sterilize beef before selling it for human consumption. Unlikely as it is a process which has been in use for many years and a number of patents for specific processes are held by different people or organisations. But it has remained little known outside industry and government circles. If you call openly published, publicly available in patents and widely mentioned in food science textbooks as "little known" you might have a point. What it actually shows is the profound ignorance of the author of the article, one self appointed "nutritionalist" called Mike Adams. It shows he is, on matters of food science, ill informed, ill educated and unable to do basic research at a level a 13 year old child should have mastered. There is nothing secret about this process. Apparently, this practice of injecting fast food beef with ammonia has been a well-kept secret for years. No, it has been a perfectly open, published process which anyone could have read about had they bothered. You would have thought a "nutritionalist" would be familiar with the method. If that is what he calls a "secret" I hate to think what our Mike calls a train timetable but he would probably shoot you if he saw you reading one. I never knew this was going on, Isn't this someone who calls himself a "nutritionalist"? Are we supposed to get worked up just because he is one sandwich short of a picnic? and this news appears to be new information to virtually everyone. Only to "nutritionalists". 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. Oh dear, Mike is showing his lack of education again. Never mind the facts - spread the woo! |
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Ammonia injected in school lunches
"john" wrote in message ... Ammonia injected in school lunches http://www.naturalnews.com/027872_am..._products.html (NaturalNews) 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. So what is your problem with it? It is a natural byproduct of our bodies, our bodies are designed to handle it. Or are you just stupid and running a fearmongering game on all the ignorants. |
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