howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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mechancly recoverd meat is the normal practice these days to
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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are you sure you want to eat these after watching this gruesome video,.
Guest 1033- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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MRM has been a fact of life for many years. The thought of what goes into processed food turns my stomach, and I do my best not to eat anything that has been processed, like sausages, burgers, pies and pasties and all the rest of that type of stuff. Also (while we're on the subject) be aware that sugar is often a high volume 'secret' ingredient of these supposedly savoury foods, as it is a cheap bulking agent, and it gives children the taste for sweetened foods for life, perpetuating the practise.
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
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Where do we draw the line? At the end of them day all food has been processed, even if we kill and butcher it ourselves, are the burgers and sausages made by quality butchers to be discounted, mass produced low price products I agree.
The article above is a few years out of date, McDonalds now use only 100% British and Irish beef with zero additives and 100% chicken breast in the nuggets thanks to Jamie Oliver, strange they would publish a story that is no longer true.
Arte et Marte
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Despite everything I do enjoy sausages from Rook's haven't tried the new butcher's yet.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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If an item of food has been passed as suitable for human consumption does it really matter how mechanically that is achieved.
We would have terrible wastage if only prime cuts of meat were used in sausages and pies, I dread to think of the cost if that was the case.
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Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
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Strangely pet foods have to be fit for human consumption!
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Arte et Marte
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Many years ago I was told by a chap who drove a refrigerated truck with foodstuffs back to the UK from the far flung corners of Europe that sometimes the unit packed up en route. He would only discover this on arrival so he would ring his boss who would send him to a pet food factory or a wholesaler that supplied Chinese restaurants.
Guest 1033- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
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When I said processed food, I meant the stuff that the factories churn out, containing additives, artificial flavours and colours, and often have their nutritional value cut during the process, and end up containing little or no fibre. To kill and butcher an animal is a 'process', but it is normally assumed that factory altered food is what is meant by the expression 'processed food'. I don't care what anyone on this forum eats, its your life and I am not the diet police, just offering my opinion. It would be ridiculous to use prime cuts of meat in sausages, obviously, never said they should, all I said was that I don't eat them.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Every study over the last 10 or more years from universities and other clever clog institutions show a clear link between processed meats and bowel cancer. Not just our humble sausage but bacon, salami, garlic sausage and those disgusting Spanish ones that begin with the letter C. But as I eat something based purely on how it tastes I will not be changing my ways.
