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Whovian

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8. Window cleaning chemical injected into fast food hamburger meat
Mon Oct 1, 2012, 03:56 PM
Oct 2012
http://www.naturalnews.com/027872_ammonia_beef_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.
A nice McD's graphic from FB [View all] Whovian Oct 2012 OP
How is it not biodegradable MattBaggins Oct 2012 #1
See link Whovian Oct 2012 #2
You could do that with all sorts of foods MattBaggins Oct 2012 #10
I second that ^ Confusious Oct 2012 #3
How's about a touch of malathion in your burger? Whovian Oct 2012 #4
Well, after looking up the reasons Confusious Oct 2012 #5
I'll halfway disagree. Whovian Oct 2012 #7
If you had read down below, it does mold Confusious Oct 2012 #9
That's just plain bad science tkmorris Oct 2012 #6
Thanks for the link tammywammy Oct 2012 #12
Window cleaning chemical injected into fast food hamburger meat Whovian Oct 2012 #8
Boogey man with "used in cleaning products" MattBaggins Oct 2012 #11
Amonia. Tasty, heh? Whovian Oct 2012 #13
I like the taste of a well ripened brie cheese MattBaggins Oct 2012 #14
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