Of course, this case indicates that innovation isn't always a good thing: the USDA's Earl Butz and the agribiz corporations have created the Frankenstein's monster of industrial livestock processing. (BTW & FWIW, I learned half of my agricultural economics from a Chicago product.) Jim Devine ----------
Reminds me. A couple of days ago one of guys at work described how they make Chicken MacNuggets. The whole chicken goes in a shute, ground up into a paste and little cookie nuggets dropped on a belt off to the next stage. Bags of frozen patties arrive at store, into the deep fry. EOF. We argued over the guts. He maintaned guts and all. So I located a slightly less disgusting but more probable version: http://www.good.is/post/chicken-nuggets-is-that-how-they-re-made-a-good-fact-check/ [In the video there is still waste, mostly bone pieces and other debris. I am pretty sure that is not wasted but goes to live stock feed processing.] I buy whole chickens and cut them up saving the carcass for soup. Cut it up and put it in cheese cloth, pressure cook it. Pull out the cheese cloth bag and pick through it with two forks separating meat from bone into about a cup of meat which goes back into the stock.. There are other ingrediants like onion, dill, thyme obviously salt pepper, etc. I cook the skin because that's were all the flavor is but it goes out as waste after. I have to wrap this waste bone guck in a plastic bag because every animal from ants to dogs goes for this stuff. CG _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
