Family Watches Coyote Take Dog From Front Yard - New Hampshire News Story - WMUR New Hampshire

Family Watches Coyote Take Dog From Front Yard - New Hampshire News Story - WMUR New Hampshire

Ayotte Withdraws SOPA/PIPA Support - Salem, NH Patch

Ayotte Withdraws SOPA/PIPA Support - Salem, NH Patch

U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) has withdrawn her co-sponsorship of the Protect IP Act, the Senate cousin of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act). In a statement tonight, she said,

Girl Injured, Horse Killed In Hit-And-Run - New Hampshire News Story - WMUR New Hampshire

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POSTED: 10:59 pm EST January 18, 2012
Driver Says He Did Not See Horse

MILTON, N.H. -- A Sanbornville man was facing a felony charge Tuesday of fleeing after hitting a horse on a rural road in Milton.  The teen rider of that horse was thrown to the ground and suffered injuries, while the horse bled internally due to the impact.

Police said it is important to remind drivers that laws protecting horses and their riders on the roads are very old and very clear: Move over and slow down.

Voices heard! Pipeline rejected.....

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 18, 2012 Contacts: Maggie Kao (202) 675-2384 Eddie Scher (415) 815-7027 Sierra Club Applauds President Obama for Rejecting the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline State Dept. Determines Project is Not in the National Interest Washington, D.C. – Today, the Obama Administration determined that the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is not in the national interest and announced that it will formally deny a federal permit for the proposed pipeline put forth by Canadian oil giant TransCanada. The 1,700-mile pipeline would run through six states, carrying toxic, highly corrosive tar sands crude from Alberta, Canada, to refineries and ports in Texas. In response, Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club, issued the following statement: “The Sierra Club and our 1.4 million members and supporters applaud the President today for delivering a decisive victory to Americans who want clean air to breathe and safe water to drink.  Today’s decision represents another down payment on the Administration’s plan to move our country beyond oil.  To paraphrase Vice President Biden, today’s news is a Big…Deal.  “President Obama’s announcement is an outright rejection of Speaker Boehner’s cynical attempt to play political football with Americans’ health.  Unfortunately, we know that Big Oil and their cronies in Congress will not give up their endless pursuit of profits at the cost of Americans’ health and prosperity.  “We thank the President for listening to the concerns of American farmers, landowners and people who care about clean air, clean water and our climate future.” ### Sierra Club85 2nd St. San Francisco, CA 94105 sierra.news@sierraclub.org www.sierraclub.org/pressroom Update My Profile | Unsubscribe | Manage My Email Preferences Connect with the Sierra Club: Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Sign up for the Insider Join Our Activist Network

Guess What’s in The Picture (Food?)

A) Strawberry ice cream

B) Chicken

C) Plastic foam

D) None of the above

Answer below

What you need to know:

You may want to rethink that McDonald's Chicken Nugget or Chicken Sandwich.  Folks, this is mechanically separated chicken, an invention of the late 20th century. Someone figured out in the 1960′s that meat processors can eke 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.

What they do is take parts of a chicken and put it through this machine that mechanically separate the meat from the bone. Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen.  What it does instead is smash EVERYTHING including the bones, eyes and guts making it come out looking like the picture above.

Since this meat is infested with bacteria, it will be soaked in ammonia in order to kill those little critters. But who wants ammonia nuggets?  Not I and I’m sure you don’t want any either. So in order to mask the ammonia taste, they season it with a ton of artificial flavors.

This paste goes on to become the main ingredient in many a hot dog, bologna, chicken nuggets, pepperoni, salami, jerky etc…

The industry calls this method AMR – Advanced Meat Recovery.

In 2004, as a result of  mad cow disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy), the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) ruled that beef could no longer be processed this way, because testing showed that parts of the bovine central nervous system ended up in the meat.

As for products using mechanically separated chicken and pork, FSIS ruled that they are safe to eat, but required them to be labeled as such.

Despite them being safe, FSIS states that no more than 20% of the meat in a hot dog come from mechanically separated pork.

What to do at the supermarket:

It’s always a better to choice to see a real cut of meat at the butcher counter in the supermarket and then decide what you want done with it. Buying something prepared in a factory, such as chicken nuggets, or hot dogs, you’ll always get the worst meat, and it will always be combined with additives and other sources of fat.