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Generally speaking when everything has been taken off the carcass, including parts used for animal feed, the remains are blasted by high pressure water. The res
by Pharmakon 8y ago
Generally speaking when everything has been taken off the carcass, including parts used for animal feed, the remains are blasted by high pressure water. The resulting tissue, much of it membranes and other fascia are then collected and processed. It is as you say, not really meat, it’s mostly a collagen slurry. In the cases of turkey and chicken the term used is “mechanically separated.” You can find that term on any Slim-Jim.
- zdragnar 8y agoThis isn't about mechanically separated chicken or turkey, it's about "Lean finely textured beef (LFTB)", which is actually leaner than the ground meat that it gets mixed in with.
- Pharmakon 8y ago...Which is the same product, centrifuged and ammoniated.
- KAMSPioneer 8y agoLFTB is not made from mechanically separated meat. It is made from normal boneless beef trimmings. As has been pointed out in response to numerous such claims all over this thread. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/documents/meat-industry-and-government-records https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/documents/meat-... (look on page 26)