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Carl’s Jr. Spicy Chicken Sandwich
Bun, Sesame Seed [Enriched Wheat Flour (Flour, Barley, Niacin, Iron (Ferrous Sulfate), Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Yeast, Vegetable Oil, contains 2% or less of: Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Calcium Sulphate, Ethoxylated Mono- and Diglycerides, Yeast Nutrients (Ammonium Sulphate), Preservatives (Calcium Propionate), Azodicarbonamide, Sesame Seeds], Chicken, Spicy Fritter [Chicken, Water, Seasoning (Salt, Monosodium Glutamate, Spice Extractives, Aged Red Pepper, Dried Garlic, Dried Onion, Spices, Vinegar, Flavor, Citric Acid), Sodium Phosphates. Battered with: Water, Enriched Wheat Flour (Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Yellow Corn Flour, Modified Corn Starch, Salt, Spices, Leavening (Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate), Guar Gum, Spice Extractive, Paprika. Breaded with: Enriched Wheat Flour (Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic acid), Bleached Wheat Flour, Salt, Spices, Dextrose, Soybean Oil, Leavening (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate), Extractives of Paprika, Dried Whey, Nonfat Dry Milk. Predusted with: Enriched Wheat Flour (Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), White Corn Flour, Salt, Dried Egg Whites, Wheat Gluten, Extractives of Paprika, Vegetable Oil (Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil with TBHQ and Citric Acid to protect flavor, Dimethylpolysiloxane (as an antifoaming agent))], Mayonnaise [Soybean Oil, Water, Egg Yolks, Distilled Vinegar, contains less than 2% of: Salt, Sugar, Spice, Mayonnaise Seasoning (Dextrose, Modified Cornstarch, Natural Flavor and Extractives of Paprika), Citric Acid, Calcium Disodium EDTA (added to protect flavor)], Lettuce, Iceberg
Carl’s Jr. Chicken Strips
Boneless White Chicken containing up to 12% of a solution of Water, Salt, Modified Food Starch, Sodium Phosphates, Bleached Wheat Flour, Water, Salt, Natural Flavors, Leavening (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Monocalcium Phosphate), Modified Corn Starch, Calcium Carbonate, Dehydrated Bell Pepper, Paprika, Spice Extractive, Mono- & Diglycerides, Dextrose, Yeast, Sodium Benzoate, Vegetable Oil (Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, TBHQ, Citric Acid, Dimethylpolysiloxane).
Window cleaning chemical injected into fast food hamburger meat
(NaturalNews) If you’re in the beef business, what do you do with all the extra cow parts and trimmings that have traditionally been sold off for use in pet food? You scrape them together into a pink mass, inject them with a chemical to kill the e.coli, and sell them to fast food restaurants to make into hamburgers.
That’s what’s been happening all across the USA with beef sold to McDonald’s, Burger King, school lunches and other fast food restaurants, according to a New York Times article. The beef is injected with ammonia, a chemical commonly used in glass cleaning and window cleaning products.
This is all fine with the USDA, which endorses the procedure as a way to make the hamburger beef “safe” enough to eat. Ammonia kills e.coli, you see, and the USDA doesn’t seem to be concerned with the fact that people are eating ammonia in their hamburgers.
This ammonia-injected beef comes from a company called Beef Products, Inc. As NYT reports, the federal school lunch program used a whopping 5.5 million pounds of ammonia-injected beef trimmings from this company in 2008. This company reportedly developed the idea of using ammonia to sterilize beef before selling it for human consumption.
Aside from the fact that there’s ammonia in the hamburger meat, there’s another problem with this company’s products: The ammonia doesn’t always kill the pathogens. Both e.coli and salmonella have been found contaminating the cow-derived products sold by this company.
This came as a shock to the USDA, which had actually exempted the company’s products from pathogen testing and product recalls. Why was it exempted? Because the ammonia injection process was deemed so effective that the meat products were thought to be safe beyond any question.
What else is in there?
As the NYT reports, “The company says its processed beef, a mashlike substance frozen into blocks or chips, is used in a majority of the hamburger sold nationwide. But it has remained little known outside industry and government circles. Federal officials agreed to the company’s request that the ammonia be classified as a ‘processing agent’ and not an ingredient that would be listed on labels.”
Fascinating. So you can inject a beef product with a chemical found in glass cleaning products and simply call it a “processing agent” — with the full permission and approval of the USDA, no less! Does anyone doubt any longer how deeply embedded the USDA is with the beef industry?
Apparently, this practice of injecting fast food beef with ammonia has been a well-kept secret for years. I never knew this was going on, and this news appears to be new information to virtually everyone. The real shocker is that “a majority” of fast food restaurants use this ammonia-injected cow-derived product in their hamburger meat. It sort of makes you wonder: What else is in there that we don’t know about?
“School lunch officials and other customers complained about the taste and smell of the beef,” says the NYT. No wonder. It’s been pumped full of chemicals.
There are already a thousand reasons not to eat fast food. Make this reason number 1,001. Ammonia. It’s not supposed to be there.
You can get the same effect by opening a can of dog food made with beef byproducts, spraying it with ammonia, and swallowing it. That is essentially what you’re eating when you order a fast food burger.
Link to original article:
http://www.naturalnews.com/027872_ammonia_beef_products.html