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McBlech

Having just finished Fast Food Nation, I was amused to hear McDonalds' announcement that their Chicken McNuggets would be made with all white meat. McDonalds' website touts the nuggets' reduced calories and saturated fat, while everyone else wonders what they were made of before. (My favorite is that they are harvested from the souls of the damned.) Some purport the new meat to be genetically modified, others think it's just an advertising ploy.

I find it interesting that the vegetarian alternatives are just as suspect: sickened eaters of Quorn nuggets are suing the FDA for approving the fungus in those products, and Veat gets its texture from a "twin-shaft micro-extrusion process in which a very specific combination of parameters are brought together: a particular screw geometry and a very specific application of variable temperature and pressure throughout the extrusion process." Yummy.