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In reply to the discussion: McDonald's drops use of gooey ammonia-based 'pink slime' in hamburger meat [View all]Kolesar
(31,182 posts)19. In the documentary "Food Inc.", they sprayed diseased meat with ammonia to kill microbes
The poor cattle had intestinal disease because they were fed starchy corn instead of grasses. They had evolved to eat grasses.
Hence, those poor critters walked around the feed lot knee-deep in each others' diseased feces.
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Playinghardball
Jan 2012
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In the documentary "Food Inc.", they sprayed diseased meat with ammonia to kill microbes
Kolesar
Feb 2012
#19
I've noticed that hamburgers at fast food places just don't taste like meat anymore.
fasttense
Feb 2012
#21
That's like saying the tobacco industry removed one of the hundreds of chemicals from cigarettes.
onehandle
Feb 2012
#23
Every so often some halfwit takes it upon themselves to ruin McDonald's food
AngryAmish
Feb 2012
#30