Fast Food Burgers Only 7% Meat, The 8 Other ‘Ingredients’ Will Disgust You

[Disgusted]

http://www.realfarmacy.com/fast-food-burgers-only-7-meat/#tKgMZt73AET62r78.99

Americans consume somewhere in the ballpark of 5 billion hamburgers a year. To keep up with this demand, just over 4100 cows are slaughtered every hour in the U.S. That’s a lot of dead cows! When 68 cows a minute are slaughtered you can bet that mistakes are made or parts are shifted into the wrong areas. A study published in the Annals of Diagnostic Pathology helped to discover just how much “shifting of parts” is really going on.
The study presumed that most hamburgers are composed primarily of meat. 8 different popular fast food hamburger brands were tested using histologic methods. The burgers were evaluated for water content by weight and then microscopically to verify tissue types. An additional test known as Glial fibrillary acidic protein staining was used to test for brain tissue. We’ll give you the good news first, none of the eight samples had brains in them. Unfortunately that is as good as it gets.
The mean water weight of the burgers was about 50%. Now for the strange part, actual meat content in the burgers ranged from 2.1% to 14.8 percent. That’s right, the product that you are expecting to get is only 2-14% of what you really think it is!
What made up the rest of the burger you ask? Well a variety of fun and interesting tissue types were found. The tissues found other than skeletal muscle tissue aka meat, were connective tissue, blood vessels, peripheral nerve, adipose tissue, plant material, cartilage, and bone. That’s not all folks, also found in some of the burgers were intracellular parasites known as Sarcocystis. An animal is infected with Sarcocystis when it ingests material contaminated with the infected feces of another animal. Below is a fun little info graphic on the life cycle of this parasite.

How do you avoid a hamburger that is not even made of meat and that can give you parasites? Well, you can avoid eating meat for starters. But for those of us who enjoy the occasional red meat you can find a local, sustainable, farmer, who raises cattle in grass pastures and organically. Grass fed meat is healthier, less susceptible to disease, and pastured cattle are raised in a much more humane way.

Read more at http://www.realfarmacy.com/fast-food-burgers-only-7-meat/#3lDWkL06p9qDzQXZ.99

[Mr Nobody]

Dont forget sawdust.

[the trainer]

I remember as a kid my kindagarten teacher send me to wash her fork in the kitchen and when i was holding the fork at the bottom  she send me back to wash it again and this time hold the handle so i went back to the kitchen dip the fork in the garbage wipe it off then bring it to her holding the handle and she smiled and use it to eat, moral of the story you cannot stop nasty shit and germs from getting into your body, guess i was always a getbigger 

[jephrius]

I remember as a kid my kindagarten teacher send me to wash her fork in the kitchen and when i was holding the fork at the bottom  she send me back to wash it again and this time hold the handle so i went back to the kitchen dip the fork in the garbage wipe it off then bring it to her holding the handle and she smiled and use it to eat, moral of the story you cannot stop nasty shit and germs from getting into your body, guess i was always a getbigger 

No, you're just a liar and an asshole.

[calfzilla]

Most of the time the thought of it is gross but not actually bad for you.

[pedro01]

Is there an agenda behind this article?

Because the numbers seem unlikely to me, especially when the reasons given for those numbers are inhumane farming methods.

In terms of 50% of a burger being water - the average human body is 65% water, so why wouldn't a burger have a lot of water in it?

The fast-track butchery that goes on will of course mean a but of extra stuff gets into the meat. But for a burger to be 98% non-meat wouldn't just mean other stuff getting into the meat but rather the intentional use of offal in place of meat. For 2.1% of a burger to be meat would really mean the meat got in there by accident. And how many burgers managed to come in at this 2.1% level? Was it a burger joint or some cheap, crappy frozen product at a low-end supermarket? Sounds like an outlier to me.

As for connective tissues, blood vessels, nerves, adipose tissue - isn't this all stuff that us present on a number of steak cuts? It's not exactly lips and assholes is it?

Like I say - sounds like twisting information to suit an agenda to me.

[el numero uno]

I get my meat straight form the butcher (no homo)

[Roger Bacon]

No, you're just a liar and an asshole.

 

[arce1988]

 

[Krankenstein]

I remember as a kid my kindagarten teacher send me to wash her fork in the kitchen and when i was holding the fork at the bottom  she send me back to wash it again and this time hold the handle so i went back to the kitchen dip the fork in the garbage wipe it off then bring it to her holding the handle and she smiled and use it to eat, moral of the story you cannot stop nasty shit and germs from getting into your body, guess i was always a getbigger 

Moral of the story is that you thought people would think this was funny but instead you come across as big of a douche bag back then as you are now

[Ropo]

Is there an agenda behind this article?

Because the numbers seem unlikely to me, especially when the reasons given for those numbers are inhumane farming methods.

In terms of 50% of a burger being water - the average human body is 65% water, so why wouldn't a burger have a lot of water in it?

The fast-track butchery that goes on will of course mean a but of extra stuff gets into the meat. But for a burger to be 98% non-meat wouldn't just mean other stuff getting into the meat but rather the intentional use of offal in place of meat. For 2.1% of a burger to be meat would really mean the meat got in there by accident. And how many burgers managed to come in at this 2.1% level? Was it a burger joint or some cheap, crappy frozen product at a low-end supermarket? Sounds like an outlier to me.

As for connective tissues, blood vessels, nerves, adipose tissue - isn't this all stuff that us present on a number of steak cuts? It's not exactly lips and assholes is it?

Like I say - sounds like twisting information to suit an agenda to me.

There is connective tissues, blood vessels, nerves, adipose tissue etc. in steak, but there is 90% of meat also. These burgers has 7% of meat, 50% of water and 43% of connective tissues, blood vessels, nerves, adipose tissue. You pay for the beef and they sell you piece of crap, because they are greedy bastards who want some money even from the leftover shit when they slaughter the cow. And that study was about the hamburger beef. Just wait to hear what is in the hot dog etc. sausages.

[calfzilla]

I thought all of this was none for years or forever? 

Newsflash ground beef and hotdogs aren't made with the choicest cuts. 

[syntaxmachine]

The abstract of the article gives no indication of what brands were tested, how these brands were selected, nor how the actual samples were acquired; further, it seems to indicate that a total of 8 hamburgers were tested (i.e., one per brand) -- an obviously insufficient sample size given the authors' attempt to infer facts about all fast food hamburgers.

Given their desperately quick attempt to assert the conclusion of the article from insufficient evidence and their having the same last name, I'll bet two of the authors are a douchebag couple with a clear-cut agenda.

[pedro01]

There is connective tissues, blood vessels, nerves, adipose tissue etc. in steak, but there is 90% of meat also. These burgers has 7% of meat, 50% of water and 43% of connective tissues, blood vessels, nerves, adipose tissue. You pay for the beef and they sell you piece of crap, because they are greedy bastards who want some money even from the leftover shit when they slaughter the cow. And that study was about the hamburger beef. Just wait to hear what is in the hot dog etc. sausages.

Yeah - but you are missing the point.

The article is quite clearly putting the blame on inhumane slaughtering practices as the cause of this. That somehow the 'factory abbatoirs' are accidentally putting this crap in the burgers and that if we were nicer to cows it would stop.

I on the other hand don't expect anything other than lips and assholes in a cheap freezer burger because that is what I think is put in then intentionally.

The offal goes in cheap burgers because it makes money, not because we aren't very nice to cows.

[Disgusted]

I seriously can't handle fast food beef anymore, especially McDonald's it has a funky smell.

[MMusa]

I seriously can't handle fast food beef anymore, especially McDonald's it has a funky smell.

Yes, but you are always disgusted.

[Coach is Back!]

http://www.realfarmacy.com/fast-food-burgers-only-7-meat/#tKgMZt73AET62r78.99

Americans consume somewhere in the ballpark of 5 billion hamburgers a year. To keep up with this demand, just over 4100 cows are slaughtered every hour in the U.S. That’s a lot of dead cows! When 68 cows a minute are slaughtered you can bet that mistakes are made or parts are shifted into the wrong areas. A study published in the Annals of Diagnostic Pathology helped to discover just how much “shifting of parts” is really going on.
The study presumed that most hamburgers are composed primarily of meat. 8 different popular fast food hamburger brands were tested using histologic methods. The burgers were evaluated for water content by weight and then microscopically to verify tissue types. An additional test known as Glial fibrillary acidic protein staining was used to test for brain tissue. We’ll give you the good news first, none of the eight samples had brains in them. Unfortunately that is as good as it gets.
The mean water weight of the burgers was about 50%. Now for the strange part, actual meat content in the burgers ranged from 2.1% to 14.8 percent. That’s right, the product that you are expecting to get is only 2-14% of what you really think it is!
What made up the rest of the burger you ask? Well a variety of fun and interesting tissue types were found. The tissues found other than skeletal muscle tissue aka meat, were connective tissue, blood vessels, peripheral nerve, adipose tissue, plant material, cartilage, and bone. That’s not all folks, also found in some of the burgers were intracellular parasites known as Sarcocystis. An animal is infected with Sarcocystis when it ingests material contaminated with the infected feces of another animal. Below is a fun little info graphic on the life cycle of this parasite.

How do you avoid a hamburger that is not even made of meat and that can give you parasites? Well, you can avoid eating meat for starters. But for those of us who enjoy the occasional red meat you can find a local, sustainable, farmer, who raises cattle in grass pastures and organically. Grass fed meat is healthier, less susceptible to disease, and pastured cattle are raised in a much more humane way.

Read more at http://www.realfarmacy.com/fast-food-burgers-only-7-meat/#3lDWkL06p9qDzQXZ.99

It doesn't matter. A calorie is just a calorie...remember?

[Disgusted]

It doesn't matter. A calorie is just a calorie...remember?

 

[BIG_STI]

Mcdouble cost a $1 for a reason

[musclecenter]

 
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[liquid_c]

That article is full of shit just as most other things are on that site.  Realfarmacy is one of those paranoid conspiracy theory anti-science hippy vaccines give you autism/GMO's are a deadly poison type sites. 

[Psychopath]

In before TA starts his troll rant about McDicks being healthy and pure as a home cooked burger.

[Dokey111]

what the hell did you expect    think about how many fast food burger joints there are in operation at any given time, all over the world.  hint - it's a lot

[Ropo]

Yeah - but you are missing the point.

The article is quite clearly putting the blame on inhumane slaughtering practices as the cause of this. That somehow the 'factory abbatoirs' are accidentally putting this crap in the burgers and that if we were nicer to cows it would stop.

I on the other hand don't expect anything other than lips and assholes in a cheap freezer burger because that is what I think is put in then intentionally.

The offal goes in cheap burgers because it makes money, not because we aren't very nice to cows.

How I have missed the point, while the whole point is that things which must go to waste ends up to your hamburger because of the greedy motherfuckers which want to cash even from the leftover shit? It has not anything to do with nothing else than inhumane greedy. In the other hand, cows are not made from gold, and the price of the meat is only an illusion made by guy who sell it. They has no reason to feed that shit to americans, but they do so to earn bit more money, and save the disposal fee.

[coltrane]

So in looking at the protein content, most of these fast food burgers claim to be pretty high in protein.  

That doesn't mesh with 2%-14% actual protein the study lists.