Bag O' Chips

Did a couple of modifactions on Monkey Candy, playing around with the content a little. CSS only looks intimidating. Also a couple of new posts.

Warsong Gulch - WoW
My Tijuana Flats Experience
Odd News Dump

Dark Meat Be-Gone

Daniel Fletcher has found a way to transform dark meat chicken into white, a scientific advance some purists say has gone too far.

But Fletcher, a University of Georgia poultry science professor, said his other white meat isn't designed to compete with the real thing on restaurant menus or grocery shelves. Instead, it's a filler that can be used to add protein and amino acids to something else, such as chicken nuggets.

The recipe involves adding excess water to ground-up dark meat to create a kind of meat soup, then spinning the mixture around in a tub at high speed. The centrifugal force makes the mixture settle into layers of fat, water, and extracted meat, which can be molded into breast-like patties of all-white meat.

This is gross because it is deceptive. I know when I'm eating sausage or hot dog that I'm conciously making the decision to eat a melange of whatever. But if I've been promised all white meat, or it looks white, I shouldn't have reason to still doubt that it might be concealed dark meat. Which is the unhealthier and tougher of the meats.

I also have issue with meat being treated with acids and enzymes to 'soften' it up. Trace amounts still remain on the meat and can affect people senstive to them. Further in the article it mentions consumer choice... I am disgusted that there is the possiblity that food manufacturers will take advantage of this insisting on 'benefits'. Which is an effort to only confuse the ethics of the matter. Taste good and filling can still be bad for you.