Arin Lindauer

Can You Guess What McDonald’s Food Item This Is?

 

 

You have been served…………with mechanically separated chicken! Over a billion sold!

This is what fast-food chicken nuggets, processed frozen chicken meat, and patties are made of.    BARF!!!!!

Here’s the creation process. What they do is take parts of a chicken and put it through this machine that mechanically separate the meat from the bone. Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen.  What it does instead is smash EVERYTHING including the bones, eyes and guts making it come out looking like the picture above.

Since this meat is infested with bacteria, it will be soaked in ammonia in order to kill those little critters. But who wants ammonia nuggets? Not I and I’m sure you don’t want any either. So in order to mask the ammonia taste, they season it with a shit load of artificial flavors. [Yup, that will do it]

Right about now, I know what you’re gonna ask. “Hey? How do they get rid of the freakish pink color?”

Dude? That’s what dye is for. So in order to get people to devour this crap, they dye it with artificial colors in order to give it that white texture.

Mmmmm! Mmmm! Taste like chicken. NOT!!!!!!!!!!!

Here’s the deal with mechanically separated meat. [I’m going to call it MSM for short because I don’t have that much time on my hands.] MSM is a paste like substance that is created by forcing part of an animal carcass into the sleeve of a machine called “Meat Deboner”. So they cram the animal parts into this machine, which grinds up the animal carcasses into a big glob of reddish mush!

So this is what you get in the end.

 

But they’re not done folks. Next, they add ammonium hydroxide to kill the bacterial and then they add anhydrous ammonia for refrigeration purposes. This concoction goes on to become the main ingredient in many hot dogs, bologna, chicken nuggets, pepperoni, salami, etc.

I don’t know about you but my stomach is turning inside and out just typing about this stuff.

It’s not only chicken nuggets that have been MSMed!!!! Most meat companies take the “cheap route” by using the less desirable meat of animals to make food. Meat that is unidentifiable like hot dogs, hamburgers and that stuff you find in frozen dinners. When these meats are Frankensteined created, they don’t really need to retain their appearance, shape or texture. In order to trick consumers, meat companies use artificial flavoring, coloring and preservatives to alter the color, taste and texture of this trash.

Who cares if it’s shaped like a turd. At least it taste good, right?

Now you’re probably asking yourself, “How can they get away with this? Is there no dignity in the Meat Packing Industry?”

The answer? HELLLLLLLLLLL NO!

You see, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), mechanically separated poultry is safe to eat and may be used without restriction.

But before you start organizing an “Occupy USDA” movement, they (the USDA) did state that commercial food products must be labeled as Mechanically Separated Poultry:

Mechanically separated poultry (MSP) is a paste-like and batter-like poultry product produced by forcing bones, with attached edible tissue, through a sieve or similar device under high pressure to separate bone from the edible tissue. Mechanically separated poultry has been used in poultry products since the late 1960′s. Mechanically separated meat may not be described simply as “meat” on food labels, but must be labeled as “mechanically separated” pork, chicken, or turkey in the ingredients statement.

Honestly, how many of you really take the time to read the ingredient labels on your food?

Since there was a big scare about the spread of mad cow disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) the sale of MSM-derived beef products for human consumption in the U.S. was banned in 2004.

However, the United Kingdom decided to take a different route.

Since bits of the spinal cord (the part most likely to be carrying BSE) often got mixed in with the rest of the meat, products using mechanically separated meat taken from the carcasses of bovines were at higher risk for transmitting BSE to humans. The United Kingdom tightened restrictions to help ensure that pieces of the spinal cord would not be present in mechanically separated meat taken from bovines in 1989.^[1][2]

Really? How do they go about doing that? Is someone pulling cow spine out of each and every carcass before sticking it into the machine? If you believe that then I have 10 acres of land to sell you in Texas. All you have to do is pay the $400 property tax and the land is all YOURS!!!!! 

 

You might think twice before you go out and grab the processed TV dinner, or even hitting up your local fast food joint.  Make sure you choose wisely on what you put into your body.  Remember the old saying (You Are What You Eat.)  Try to purchase foods that have not been processed or modified (Lean and Green) is the way to go.  If you’re food can stay fresh more than a week then you may want to look at what you are consuming.

 

 

 

An extremely effective (and tasty!) strategy to increase fat loss is to make sure you have a recovery shake post workout.  There are several reasons we at Transformation Fitness and Wellness have recommended post-work out shakes for fat loss- and here are some:

1.      Puts the blood sugar balance in favor of fat loss.  After a workout the blood sugar levels are extremely low, and this is not good for fat loss.  By drinking the shakes to replenish your body, this is the fastest way to get your body in fat burning mode again.

2.     Helps rebuild the tissues in the body that have been stressed by exercise.  This is primarily the job of protein and can be thought of the tools your body needs to repair the body.  If your body can repair muscle, then the metabolism can stay elevated which is crucial for fat loss.  This allows for the body to be in rebuild mode, not tear down mode.

3.     The ingredients are a unique blend of high-quality protein combined with glucose polymers and other carbohydrates.   This gives the body energy and structural support to rebuild after a hard workout.

4.     They taste FANTASTIC!

We will soon be carrying all Advocare products in the studio to make it easier for our clients to purchase.  Remember, starving yourself is not the answer to fat loss, in fact depriving yourself of calories will have the opposite effect. Make sure you have your recovery shake after each workout to ensure peak fat loss results.