PHOTO: Pre-Chicken Nugget Meat Paste, AKA Mechanically Separated Poultry [Updated] The photo above [SEE UPDATE BELOW] has been extensively passed around recently, and for good reason: it's a peek into the rarely-seen world of mechanically separated meat.
![PHOTO: Pre-Chicken Nugget Meat Paste, AKA Mechanically Separated Poultry [Updated]](http://cdn.pearltrees.com/s/pic/th/chicken-mechanically-separated-6277198)
Fooducate writes: Someone figured out in the 1960s that meat processors can eek out a few more percent of profit from chickens, turkeys, pigs, and cows by scraping the bones 100% clean of meat. This is done by machines, not humans, by passing bones leftover after the initial cutting through a high pressure sieve. The paste you see in the picture above is the result.
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