ok i just came back from Foodmaax and bough Slim Jim beef Jurky..?

Question

I wanted to see if it was beef and i read the ingredients and it said Beef, Mechanically Seperated Chicken my mom said thats Chicken but and tongue. is that true? if not what is Mechanically Seperated Chicken?

Answer 1

mechanically separated Chicken:
According to the U.S.Food Safety and Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture, mechanically separated meets are the real thing and are safe.
Very simply, mechanical separation is a way of getting every last piece of meat from the bone of a chicken, turkey, or other food animal.
Bones with edible meat attached are forced under high pressure through a device that separates the bone from the meat.
It's a process that's been used since the 1960's and for a variety of popular products.
A statement from the U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service says mechanically separated products are "safe, wholesome, nutritious, and useful in providing consumers with the wide variety of economical meat and poultry products."
We have not been able to find any reference to the carcass specifically having "immature sex glands."

Answer 2

Summary of the eRumor
An email message alerting readers to the existence of mechanically separated meats such as chicken and turkey.
The writer says it is a carcass stripped of everything except tissue, immature sex glands, and bone and asks, "Shouldn't consumers be made aware of what mechanically separated chicken is?"


The Truth
According to the U.S.Food Safety and Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture, mechanically separated meets are the real thing and are safe.
Very simply, mechanical separation is a way of getting every last piece of meat from the bone of a chicken, turkey, or other food animal.
Bones with edible meat attached are forced under high pressure through a device that separates the bone from the meat.
It's a process that's been used since the 1960's and for a variety of popular products.
A statement from the U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service says mechanically separated products are "safe, wholesome, nutritious, and useful in providing consumers with the wide variety of economical meat and poultry products."
We have not been able to find any reference to the carcass specifically having "immature sex glands."

Answer 3

"bones with edible meat attached are forced thru a device that separates the meat from the bone."
No tongues, no butts [ that's on the back pieces of chicken ].
Actually, the meat nearest the muscle is low in fat and high in vitamins - so it is probably the healthiest thing IN the Slim Jims!

Answer 4

Well like bologna, and hot dogs, that is all of the eatable parts of the chicken put in like a big blender. So yeah that is tounge and butthole, sorry to say. Sometimes I think it is better not to look at whats in stuff.

Answer 5

its all the edible parts of a chicken blended together.

Answer 6

its all the extra and left over meat
thats what that means

Answer 7

no its not butt and tondue only (but Im sure they are in there too). It includes cartalige, skin, claws and bone marrow.