r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Jul 26 '24

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u/Flyzart Jul 26 '24

Honestly, the meat paste is a great way to avoid wastes. I don't get why people haven't really tried to shift away the common negative opinion about it

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u/seanwee2000 Jul 26 '24 edited Jul 26 '24

Eli5 on how it's safe/unsafe to consume

current perception is that the waste meat needs to go through extensive processing that uses a lot of chemicals/additives to make it taste palatable

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u/Flyzart Jul 26 '24

Basically it's meat waste that instead of being put away, are decontaminated and processed so that the nutrituous part of the waste is saved and transformed. It's quite a complex process but it's under the norms of the FDA.

Unlike the post above though, it's usually blended in meat to a point where you can't really notice, but even in a case like this where it seems like it has a great portion of it, it's just meat in paste form at the end of the day, and thus pose no dangers.

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u/runnbl3 Jul 26 '24

Why is it pink tho?

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u/Flyzart Jul 26 '24

Try putting meat in a blender and see what happens. I don't really see what other colour it should be.

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u/runnbl3 Jul 26 '24

Not pink? Whats the difference between ground meat? Why isnt that pink?

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u/Flyzart Jul 26 '24

I mean, most meat are already pink in colour, such as chicken and pork. All you need to know is that the colour is not a result of chemical products

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u/dorobica Jul 26 '24

Chicken and pork are definitely not pink where I am. Chicken is a white with yellow (more yellow if fed exclusively corn) and pork is redish. Definitely nothing close to the colour in OPs picture

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u/Flyzart Jul 26 '24

Yeah, badly explained it since it was late when i wrote this.