The pink slime rumour that plagued McDonald's McNuggets has repeatedly been debunked by the food chain. Nicoletta Stefou, the supply-chain manager at McDonald's Canada said: "We don't know what it is or where it came from, but it has nothing to do with our Chicken McNuggets. Pink slime is the product of meat being mechanically processed and treated with anti-microbial ammonia - but McDonald's does not use this method. McNuggets have been made with all white meat since and the restaurants stopped using mechanically processed beef in The Guinness World Records crowned former New Zealand beauty queen and medical student Nela Zisser as the world's new record holder for eating chicken nuggets.
But it seems Usain Bolt could be hot on her tail to take the title - as the sprinting legend revealed he chowed down on an estimated 1, McNuggets during the Bejing Olympics. Among other celebs , Kim Kardashian also revealed she is a fan of McDonald's famous nuggets, as is her little sister Kylie Jenner. Jump directly to the content. Sign in. Unnaturally rapid growth, the result of selective breeding, also causes stress to chickens' skeletons and organs, and can give rise to lethal conditions like Sudden Death Syndrome.
Transporting broiler chickens to the slaughterhouse can be a grueling trip for the birds, some of whom never make it, dying before arriving at their final destination. Chickens are roughly crammed into small crates and stacked on trucks that can hold around 3, birds at a time. Birds can be exposed to extreme heat or cold during the trip, and they are denied access to food and water having already been starved for up to 12 hours before leaving the farm , adding yet more stress to an already brutal situation.
Chickens endure some of the most difficult deaths of any factory-farmed animal. Birds are then moved through an electrified bath of water meant to render them unconscious before their throats are slit. Then, their bodies are plunged into a boiling vat of water to defeather them.
Sadly, many hundreds of thousands of birds remain conscious for their deaths due to improper stunning and throat-cutting, resulting in one of the worst welfare violations within the animal agricultural industry today. Tell the chicken industry to stop boiling birds alive. The video depicts dead chickens being deboned, the breast meat cut off their bodies.
The breasts are then dumped into huge bins, which are wheeled over to a massive grinder. The meat is ground to shreds and combined with the skin of chickens, acting as a binding agent and eventually becoming an unappetizing beige paste.
The final stage of chicken nugget creation is shaping the meat paste, battering it with a tempura batter, and frying it, all using a highly mechanized process.
Some chicken nugget recipes are worse for your health than others, but even at the best of times, these products are not considered healthy foods.
Nuggets can also be fried in hydrogenated oils, and they contain high amounts of preservatives, sugar, and fat, making them unhealthy choices, especially when eaten frequently. The truth about chicken nuggets is not nearly as golden as their battered exteriors might suggest. While the ground chicken in the video isn't necessarily pink, it still looks like a questionable raw meat goop. Tom Super, a spokesman for the National Chicken Council, confirmed that the above video — in which chicken breasts are ground, mixed with chicken skin and "marination" i.
In contrast to the ground-up mass-produced chicken phenomenon, organic nuggets take a different, non-mushed meat approach — at least, at Bay Area-based Hip Chick Farms. The organic, frozen poultry company is run by Serafina Palandech and her wife, chef Jennifer Johnson, a former sous chef.
Johnson, who is slated to cook for President Barack Obama before he leaves the White House, makes Hip Chick's all-natural nuggets without any of the mysterious ground chicken pieces. To make the Hip Chick's nuggets, organic, free-range, hormone-free chicken is chopped against the grain, seasoned, soaked in organic buttermilk and then dredged in organic panko breadcrumbs before the chicken pieces are fried.
After frying, the nuggets are flash frozen and eventually packaged for sale. The process looks a lot more like how you would cook at home: no fillers, stabilizers, starch or binders are added in.
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