I’ve had a lurking suspicion that what’s called beef in canned and frozen foods hasn’t been for several years now. Fast food, too. Once hamburger was ground chuck, then it was adulterated with organ meats, then a sort of rendered sludge to eke every last penny out of it. Down to sludge? Sludge is sludge. Who’s to say what it actually is any longer if it’s unidentifiable? Same with reconstituted chicken shapes. If I buy a sandwich from a fast food outlet it’s going to be identifiable as a chicken breast. I no longer trust it otherwise. It’s gradually getting down to the point, and back to the point actually, that you’ll know where your food came from personally, in order to know what you’re actually eating.
See if you can find anything of Jamie Oliver’s program “School Dinners”.
Where he tries to improve the meals served British school children.
There’s a bit where he demonstrates what the food industry use in things like “Turkey Twislers”, and recreates the pink slime they use made from “Mechanically separated meat and chemicals.
It was gross.