Nov 05, 2013 19:00:00

Why American McDonald's used pink slime meat

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t-mizo

British chef Jamie Oliver introduced the dangers of pink slime meat used by McDonald's in his program in 2011. The content of the program became a hot topic in the United States after the broadcast ended , and AFA Foods, a major meat processing company that processed pink slime meat, went bankrupt. McDonald's has announced that it will stop using pink slime meat, but the real problem lies elsewhere, Political Blind Spot points out.

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In the TV program ' Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, ' Oliver said that after heating offal meat used in dog food and seasoning oil, the meat offal is removed using centrifugal force and preservatively treated with ammonium hydroxide. I have appealed to viewers many times about the process of processing pink slime meat. 'Ammonia hydroxide is harmful to health,' says Oliver, who is very worried about children eating pink slime meat.

In addition, you can check how Mr. Oliver introduced the processing method of pink slime meat in the program from the following movie.

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Pink Slime 70% of America's Beef is Treated with Ammonia --YouTube


In response to the content of Oliver's program, Latin America pink McDonald's franchise manager of the 'McDonald's of Latin America did not make the processing of scrap meat such as Mr. Oliver says,' and, even McDonald's United Kingdom and Ireland Although he denied the use of slime meat, McDonald's in the United States announced that it would stop using pink slime meat after the broadcast, although it said that it had nothing to do with Mr. Oliver's TV program.

McDonald's official website says, 'Because we purchase a large amount of meat at once, we can provide good quality meat at a low price.' However, questions such as 'If the pink slime meat was of good quality, wouldn't it have been necessary to stop using it?' 'Why McDonald's in the United Kingdom and Ireland are not preservatively treated with ammonium hydroxide?' ..

McDonald's and other fast-food outlets use pink slime meat because it is banned from selling pink slime meat for food in the United Kingdom, but the Ministry of Agriculture says it is 'safe' in the United States. It was said that. In addition,

pink slime meat is still used for school lunches in American elementary schools. Food Safety Under Secretary Elisabeth Hagen Dr., which is also the doctor, the 'manufacturing process of LFTB (pink slime meat) is safe, are those which have been used for a long time, there is no problem in safety' and comments are also leaving , America's attitude towards pink slime meat is unlikely to change.

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Political Blind Spot said, 'The most terrifying problem is when and where to eat pink slime because consumers can't tell by themselves because the waste meat is preservative-treated with ammonium hydroxide and doesn't need to be labeled. I don't know at all. ' I don't know the truth about whether Oliver or the Department of Agriculture is right, but the biggest problem is not giving consumers a choice.

In Japan, ammonium hydroxide is an undesignated additive, and if it is used, it violates the Food Sanitation Law, so it is unlikely that you will eat pink slime meat.