Window cleaning chemical injected into fast food hamburger meat

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Window cleaning chemical injected into fast food hamburger meat

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by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

 

 

(NaturalNews) If you're in the beef business, what do you do with all the

extra cow parts and trimmings that have traditionally been sold off for use

in pet food? You scrape them together into a pink mass, inject them with a

chemical to kill the e.coli, and sell them to fast food restaurants to

make into hamburgers.

 

 

That's what's been happening all across the USA with beef sold to

McDonald's, Burger King, school lunches and other fast food restaurants,

according

to a New York Times article. The beef is injected with ammonia, a chemical

commonly used in glass cleaning and window cleaning products.

 

 

This is all fine with the USDA, which endorses the procedure as a way to

make the hamburger beef " safe " enough to eat. Ammonia kills e.coli, you see,

and the USDA doesn't seem to be concerned with the fact that people are

eating ammonia in their hamburgers.

 

 

This ammonia-injected beef comes from a company called Beef Products, Inc.

As NYT reports, the federal school lunch program used a whopping 5.5

million pounds of ammonia-injected beef trimmings from this company in 2008.

This company reportedly developed the idea of using ammonia to sterilize beef

before selling it for human consumption.

 

Aside from the fact that there's ammonia in the hamburger meat, there's

another problem with this company's products: The ammonia doesn't always kill

the pathogens. Both e.coli and salmonella have been found contaminating

the cow-derived products sold by this company.

 

 

This came as a shock to the USDA, which had actually exempted the

company's products from pathogen testing and product recalls. Why was it

exempted?

Because the ammonia injection process was deemed so effective that the meat

products were thought to be safe beyond any question.

 

 

What else is in there?

 

 

As the NYT reports, " The company says its processed beef, a mashlike

substance frozen into blocks or chips, is used in a majority of the hamburger

sold nationwide. But it has remained little known outside industry and

government circles. Federal officials agreed to the company's request that the

ammonia be classified as a 'processing agent' and not an ingredient that would

be listed on labels. "

 

 

Fascinating. So you can inject a beef product with a chemical found in

glass cleaning products and simply call it a " processing agent " -- with the

full permission and approval of the USDA, no less! Does anyone doubt any

longer how deeply embedded the USDA is with the beef industry?

 

 

Apparently, this practice of injecting fast food beef with ammonia has

been a well-kept secret for years. I never knew this was going on, and this

news appears to be new information to virtually everyone. The real shocker is

that " a majority " of fast food restaurants use this ammonia-injected

cow-derived product in their hamburger meat. It sort of makes you wonder: What

else is in there that we don't know about?

 

 

" School lunch officials and other customers complained about the taste and

smell of the beef, " says the NYT. No wonder. It's been pumped full of

chemicals.

 

 

There are already a thousand reasons not to eat fast food. Make this

reason number 1,001. Ammonia. It's not supposed to be there.

 

 

You can get the same effect by opening a can of dog food made with beef

byproducts, spraying it with ammonia, and swallowing it. That is essentially

what you're eating when you order a fast food burger.

 

 

It's almost enough to make you want to puke. If you do so, please aim it

at your windows, because ammonia cuts through grease like nothing else,

leaving your windows squeaky clean!

 

 

Sources for this story include:

 

NY Times:

_http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/us/31meat.html?_r=2_

(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/us/31meat.html?_r=2)

 

 

ABC News:

_http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9462076_

(http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9462076)