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McDonalds meat scandal:
“When you eat a burger at McDonald’s, that beef you’re eating is only beef by the thinnest of technicalities. What it really is is dog food grade beef byproduct— scrotums, toenails, eyeballs and the like that’s then dyed pink and made to look like ground beef. But McDonald’s has said it promises to stop using the pink goop and use (shock!) actual meat in its burgers.

What’s gross about the pink goop beef, made by Beef Products Inc (BPI), is that it’s actually made of of “beef trimmings” which are the undesirable, leftover crap of a cow that’s better fit for dogs than humans. Taking it one step further, the beef trimmings are then processed and soaked in ammonium hydroxide and churned into ground beef. Agh, it’s disgusting to even think about. This pink goop beef actually makes up a sickening 70% of America’s ground beef! 

It’s taken a while but McDonald’s has finally decided to step up its standards in the US (it never used pink goop meat in the UK) and will no longer use the pink BPI meat in the US of A. It might taste fine but pink goop meat is so bad that US Department of Agriculture microbiologist Geral Zirnstein doesn’t even consider “the stuff to be ground beef” and considers “allowing it in ground beef to be a form of fraudulent labeling.”

Burger King and Taco Bell have also vowed to stop using this fake beef byproduct junk.

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(Source: thephilter)