{"id":14693,"date":"2009-05-04T18:37:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T00:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=14693"},"modified":"2009-05-04T18:37:41","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T00:37:41","slug":"the-horror-the-meaty-meaty-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/04\/the-horror-the-meaty-meaty-horror.html","title":{"rendered":"The horror! The meaty, meaty, horror!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m trying to figure out the visceral aversion that folks are having to the video described here<\/a>. It’s basically a corporate video McDonald’s has in online from one of its meat suppliers<\/a>, showing how beef and pork are converted from slabs o’ meat to patties and nuggets and all that kind of thing.<\/p>\n

Now, we’re not talking here about The Jungle<\/em>. The facility is squeaky-sparkly clean, the processing is quick and efficient … and it seems the biggest problem is just with seeing large quantities of meat being chopped and ground and molded into … more large quantities of meat.<\/p>\n

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The video has it all: masked employees earnestly voicing the virtues their “USDA-inspected” product while behind them, a torrent of beef spews out of a giant mechanical meat-hole onto a speeding conveyor belt; tubs, pipes and boxes of various sizes and shapes carrying a roiling mass of beef slurry; countless, mysterious processing chambers, each of which does who knows what else to the patties.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, it’s not quite as romantic as the local butcher carefully hand-slicing off some cuts of meat, maybe running it through a hand-cranked meat grinder, to make a perfectly artisan-crafted hamburger patty for your mesquite barbecue … but within the bounds of “Meat! It’s Not Evil to Eat It!” this doesn’t make me feel any worse about McD’s. In fact, it makes me feel marginally even better about it.<\/p>\n

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(via Les, who wasn’t bothered either)<\/p>\n

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I’m trying to figure out the visceral aversion that folks are having to the video described here. It’s basically a corporate video McDonald’s has in online from one of its meat suppliers, showing how beef and pork are converted from slabs o’ meat to patties and nuggets and all that kind of thing. Now, we’re not … Continue reading “The horror! 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