Chicken nuggets are 53% chicken...the 'extra parts' of retired egg layers - Yum!

[Liberal_in_LA]

CLEVELAND -- What actually goes into the chicken nuggets that are found in your child's kids meals?

Are chicken nuggets in your kids' meals every time you hit the drive-thru or take them out for dinner? Have you ever wondered how healthy they really are?

It all starts on a chicken farm.

Usually, only retired egg layers are destined for nuggets, since their meat is cheap. Tendons, tissue, cartilage, organs, and other chicken extras are ground up into a fine poultry paste. It's typically washed with ammonia to kill bacteria and treated with an artificial flavoring.

"We basically looked at the nuggets like these and determined that they're 53 percent meat," said Dr. Bruce Hemming, a microbiologist with Microbe Inotech Laboratories.

What about the rest of the nugget?

"Breading and other components make up the coating of the nugget," Hemming said. "The big issue is the nutritional content here."

A nutritionist describes a chicken nugget as "half chicken, half nugget, more than half fat."

http://www.wkyc.com/news/article/188543/7/Just-what-exactly-is-in-those-chicken-nuggets

[provis99]

1. It's nice that the meat is used rather than wasted in landfills.

I hate it when I read about the wastage of perfectly good meat, just because it isn't a prime rib or something.

[uppityperson]

5. That it is. eom

[Kolesar]

2. "Parts is parts" like the old Wendy's commercial said

I don't eat at Wendy's either.

[On the Road]

16. What's it made from?

Customer: Excuse me, but what was that in there?
Counter Worker: It's chicken!
Customer: Chicken?
Counter Worker: Processed.
Customer: Processed?
Counter Worker: That's like when they take a lot of chickens and assemble the respective parts.
Customer: Parts? What parts?
Counter Worker: What parts?
Other Worker: Different parts.
Counter Worker: Parts is parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_oem9BqUTI

[dkf]

3. Ugh.

Sick.

[RebelOne]

4. Glad I'm a vegetarian and don't eat that crap. n/t

[demosincebirth]

7. Well, pin a rose on you!

[OwnedByFerrets]

10. Me too!! And, I wear that pin proudly,

[Liquorice]

12. Yep, I'm so glad I'm a vegan. That stuff is so gross and barbaric. nt

[flvegan]

14. Yep.

[Ignis]

13. It's a simple choice that keeps giving outstanding returns, isn't it?

:thumbsup:

[hugo_from_TN]

24. Me too!

Although the 'progressives' here at DU will now jump all over you.
DU Slogans:
Lower Greenhouse gases (as long as we can still eat meat)!
Protect innocent animals (except those we eat)!
blah blah blah

[Obamanaut]

27. I'm glad you are. More meat and 'parts' for the rest of us. nt

[demosincebirth]

6. Retired egg layers aren't chicken?

[moparlunatic]

8. Meh big deal

That aint the worst thing I've put into my body. Chicken nuggets is yummy.

[Luminous Animal]

9. Tendons, tissue, cartilage, organs, and other chicken extras are ground up into a fine poultry paste

From the article and in the OP.

[cliffordu]

15. In a survival course I ate worms, maggots, bugs, whole roasted mice.....

Anything that contained calories and wouldn't kill me.

Get hungry enough and rat meat looks like prime rib......

[Luminous Animal]

20. Well, I grew up poor on a farm and as my grandmother used to say... we eat everything

except the beak. But clearly, both you and I were informed about what we were eating.

[cliffordu]

23. Yep. Everything is food......

In a natural setting we are too, after we shuffle off the mortal coil.....Only fair to be food for maggots and bugs and the occasional coyote.......

[Rozlee]

28. Well, according to the guy that wrote "Eat This, Not That,"

Hamburger joints use hamburger meat that includes hooves. They buy that god-awful beef mixture from a commercial beef factory that uses that same ammonia treatment that the chicken processing does. With that in mind, I don't see why that don't toss in the beak too.

[flvegan]

11. Longer term animal abuse is tastier, I guess.

[Monk06]

17. Chicken Mc Nuggets are just Haggis without the bagpipes N/T

[cliffordu]

19. Well...

:rofl:

NOW WE'RE TALKIN'!!!!

[ZombieHorde]

18. They sound like hot dogs. nt

[Historic NY]

21. Its easier to make them yourself at home....from thin breast strips....

its better than meat & meat by products. Make a big tray and freeze them. As an up tick find some wooden BBQ shi ka bob sticka & make chicken strips on a stick....kids will go crazy for them.

[femmocrat]

22. This is the mainstay of the US school lunch program!

It is on our lunch menu EVERY DAY and it is all some kids eat for lunch EVERY DAY.

I know this because I have friggin' lunch duty EVERY DAY.

[hugo_from_TN]

25. Switch those kids to grains, veggies, fruits, legumes, nuts. etc.

They don't need to eat that crap or any other meat products.

[femmocrat]

26. Agree.

I am hoping that the new school lunch guidelines will do just that. They don't take effect until 2012-13 and there will be tons of complaining about them.

[Incitatus]

29. Chick-Fil- A has the best and their made from real chunks of breast.

I don't care for the processed crap.