The fuck does mechanically recovered beef even mean?
As you seem unable to use Google....or remember what I stated "basically the scrapings from the processing plant"....
Mechanically separated meat - Wikipedia
""Mechanically separated meat (MSM), mechanically recovered/reclaimed meat (MRM), or mechanically deboned meat (MDM) is a paste-like meat product produced by forcing pureed or ground
beef,
pork,
mutton,
turkey or
chicken, under high pressure through a
sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue. It is sometimes called
white slime as an analog to meat-additive
pink slime and to meat extracted by
advanced meat recovery systems, both of which are different processes.
The process entails pureeing or grinding the carcass left after the manual removal of meat from the bones and then forcing the slurry through a sieve under pressure. This puree includes bone, bone marrow, skin, nerves, blood vessels, and the scraps of meat remaining on the bones.
The resulting product is a blend primarily consisting of tissues not generally considered meat along with a much smaller amount of actual meat (muscle tissue). In some countries such as the United States, these non-meat materials are processed separately for human and non-human uses and consumption.
[1] The process is controversial;
Forbes, for example, called it a "not-so-appetizing meat production process".
[2]""
One reason why I read the ingredients list on packets before I buy stuff......
EDIT:- MRM using Beef shouldn't be available:-
In the mid-1990s, the UK government banned MRM from cattle backbone, in 1998 MRM from any ruminant backbone and in August 2001 from any ruminant bone. In 2001, the government prohibited the sale of MRM beef for human consumption to prevent the spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
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United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) rules became effective November 4, 1996, and were later updated, stressing: Due to FSIS regulations enacted in 2004 to protect consumers against bovine spongiform encephalopathy, mechanically separated beef is considered inedible and is prohibited for use as human food. It is not permitted in hot dogs or any other processed product.
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