Delicious ammonia burgers coming our way?

No, they’re already here, at least if for you here means the United States, for mercifully this process is not yet accepted in Canada. Apparently, for the last decade or so, there’s been an American company, that has developed a process by which “remnants” of meat, that stuff nobody wants to eat, appetizing things like “fatty sweepings from the slaughterhouse floor” could be salvaged for human consumption by simply adding ammonia to the pink goo that results from the mechanical grinding of said remnants into a paste, and removal of extra fat. This of course makes us wonder what they do with the fat exactly? Cosmetics?

Ammonia of course will kill the pathogens like E-Coli, that thrive on lesser meat and makes it inedible. You’d think then, surely they make dog food with this Pink Slime, and you’d be wrong. The company, called Beef Products then sells the Pink Slime to major players in the hamburger world like McDonalds, Burger King and school cafeterias all over the United States. Pink Slime has the serious advantage of being “extremely cheap” and can be used to cut normal beef meat and render it more affordable for hamburger lovers.

I know, you’ll say this is old news then ah? And you might be right, but here’s what I say, when this alarming process was unearthed, in late 2009 early 2010, why in God’s name did nobody do anything about it? Since then, nothing’s been done, Beef Products keep selling their Pink Slime to whoever wants to cut their burger meat with it, and they have photos of healthy looking children running happily through what appears to be a backyard barbecue. What’s next? Soylent Green biscuits?