Don't Eat This Book! (or Junk Food)

The Truth: Most fast-food hamburger patties begin their voyage to your buns in the hands of a company called Beef Products. The company specializes in taking slaughterhouse trimmings—heads and hooves and the like—that are traditionally used only in pet food and cooking oil, and turning them into patties. The challenge is getting this byproduct meat clean enough for human consumption, as both E. coli and salmonella like to concentrate themselves in the fatty deposits.

The company has developed a process for killing beef-based pathogens by forcing the ground meat through pipes and exposing it to ammonia gas—the same chemical you might use to clean your bathroom. Not only has the USDA approved the process, but it's also allowed those who sell the beef to keep it hidden from their customers. At Beef Products' behest, ammonia gas has been deemed a "processing agent" that need not be identified on nutrition labels. Never mind that if ammonia gets on your skin, it can cause severe burning, and if it gets in your eyes, it can blind you. Add to the gross-out factor the fact that after moving through this lengthy industrial process, a single beef patty can consist of cobbled-together pieces from different cows from all over the world—a practice that only increases the odds of contamination. http://towerreview.com

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[seanowbo]

im a vegetarian. i laugh at people who need to eat meat. poor bastards.

[burjreview]

@seanowbo I don't laugh at these people, I feel sorry for them, and for the animals that are mistreated in feed lots. People are brainwashed by endless ads for burgers and cheap meat. If you're going to eat meat, at least avoid the grain-fed kind in favor of grass fed. Cattle are not supposed to eat grain; they get sick on it, and just before they die in unsanitary and overcrowded pens, they are slaughtered for McDonalds patties.

[rooooooby]

There's ammonia in urine too!

[rooooooby]

@burjreview Where do you get your information? Seriously? PETA? cause they don't always tell the whole truth. You do realise that most of the beef from McDonald's come from dairy cattle right?

[seanowbo]

@efatnas12 freedom of expression. Take a dildo and shove it up your dusty snatch you shit head.

[efatnas12]

@seanowbo i am not a vegetarian, i eat meat, and i dont make fun of vegetarians. please take your immaturity somewhere else. thank you.

[seanowbo]

@burjreview yeah its sick really. thats one of the many reasons i became a vegetarian..... Im not saying meat is bad, but i just feel bad for all the deaths...

[calladus123]

everything you said was true