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While I was happily munching away on a Slim Jim at AGI last week, Donna suggested I read the contents. I made the mistake of doing so.

What the HECK is a "mechanically separated chicken"????

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Have you read Fast Food Nation? If you'd like to continue eating your Slim Jims and lunchmeats and chicken nuggets and hamburgers and whatnot--Don't read it. I quit eating meat for a year after I read it. Only when I got preggo and had the devil of a time keeping my iron levels up did I go back to being omnivorous. I also can't watch any of the early Disney flicks without cringing, due to that book, but that's a different story.

It's one that's been on the bull ride?

My husband went into great detail once about such things as mechanically separated food. I almost turned vegetarian on the spot!

-Su

I dunno, me. It would take a lot, meat-wise, to gross me out. I was raised in a family where pickled pigs' feet and head cheese were considered delicacies, and there were fights over who got the chicken heart (that ate up New York City?) when Mom made chicken soup.

These days, though, I just can't get the Professor to look fondly at beef liver fried with onions...

Arondelle

Try Hebrew Nation brand kosher dinner franks.

Tina

I doubt if beef hearts would be in a ham product. Different Animal.

I think it's more disgusting (less respectful) to not make use of all parts of the animal killed, than to eat usual cuts.

Tina

You are such a true Alaskan woman. I feel the same way.

I hesitate to think....not a good mental picture...fortunately, I don't like slim jim's. Patti

Which is why I eat and enjoy Spam. Hormel was throwing away tons of smoked shoulder every year until they found a way to strip the otherwise unusable meat from the bone, spice it, and cook it in the can. Far less waste.

Humans are sooo civilized. Apparently, being civilized means being free to waste perfectly edible food with abandon while millions starve.

Meat-eating wild animals eat their prey in it's entirety: skin, fur/feathers, bones, internal organs and all. And raw, yet. So-called "primative" peoples also eat as much of their catch as they can, and find uses for the bits that they can't.

Millions of dollars go into research on pet foods. One study shows that the perfect cat food would be whole, roast, grain-fed mouse, complete with skin, fur, and internals. The only reason they don't sell such cat food is because cats don't buy cat food, people do. It would be phenominally difficult to convince squeamish humans that canned mouse would be good for their kitties.

Arondelle

Don't the cat people have a contingency of "BARF (bones and raw food)" feeders like the dog peoples do??

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We slice them up, douse with soy sauce, sprinkle on a bit of garlic powder, grated ginger and sugar, cook untill the sauce is syrupy and serve over rice. Japanese-Hawaiian "comfort food", aka "teriyaki hotdogs".

Kaytee "Simplexities" on

Probably, but folks who feed their cats bones and raw food wouldn't buy the canned stuff anyway: The pet food producers wouldn't make any money off them. And then you have folks with "finicky" cats (like the late Jessica Sillywhiskers) who wouldn't know what to do with a mouse if they caught one, and who would absolutely refuse to eat raw food, regardless.

(How did cats come to associate the sound of a can opener, hand or electric, with being fed? Also, since when was a wild kitty able to catch a tuna or roast a turkey? Jessica wouldn't touch raw turkey, but was crazy for the cooked.)

BTW, the "perfect" cat food, canned mouse, was in fact cooked before processing. This helped to kill any possible food poisons and made the grain in the mouse's stomach more digestable.

Arondelle

Their "Polish dogs" are even better-- CostCo sells them at their lunch counter for $1.50, including a 20 oz (refillable) drink! (They also have them inside, packaged. But, those aren't as good of a bribe to encourage good behavior from rug wolverines.) Kaytee "Simplexities" on

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]Their "Polish dogs" are even better-- CostCo sells them at their lunch counter ]for $1.50, including a 20 oz (refillable) drink! (They also have them inside, ]packaged. But, those aren't as good of a bribe to encourage good behavior from ]rug wolverines.)

oh, YES! a guilty pleasure.

This is one of the arguments supporting the idea that humans are not carnivores but rather scavengers. As scavengers humans would not need big teeth and claws. And as scavengers, humans would need to cook there meat.

Tina

"Ar> Meat-eating wild animals eat their prey in it's entirety: skin,

Actually, I learned that from my father, a hunter, in California.

Tina

I don't normally do this but *deep breath*

Yes, people starve while others live in luxury, but right now the major issues of starvation have nothing to do with some people living in a decent standard and giving nothing to those who need as much as the people in charge of nations of starving people controlling them through greed, terror, religious intolerence and abuse to _their own people_. The Sudan is an example of such 'tribal' warfare. Not one of those £$|%|& who control the country care about the starving babies. Civilized nations are not even permitted in to assist in any meaningful way although they've tried. Most of the resources are wasted in bribing the 'governments' to allow them access to those who need help, and then there's no guarantee that anything will happen.

Civilized people don't permit such things but I refuse to feel guilty about being fed when there is nothing at all I can do to change the attitudes of such £%&*$ as those who permit the unchecked abuse of women and children in the interest of 'religion' or any other excuse for land grabbing.

Yes, we need to be more humane to others, but others have to permit such humane actions, and that's not always as easy as it looks.

-Su

Those are AMAZING. I love them!

-Kalera