AR-News: (US) Meat Stripper Gets Third Degree

[Animalconcerns]

[from Wired News]

Imagine an old-timey, hand-cranked clothes wringer. Now jack up that
concept with lots of hydraulic pressure. Subtract the wet clothes and add
a cow carcass.

That's the basic concept behind advanced meat recovery. The technology
squeezes cow bones to force out any meat still clinging to them after the
animal is slaughtered. It's a job once done less efficiently and more
dangerously by laborers wielding automatic knives. 
...
Meat recovered using the advanced method is usually added to processed
meat products like sausage, hot dogs or taco toppings.

Witnessing the AMR process would make any vegan or animal-rights advocate
squirm. The yuck factor is high. But another question entirely is whether
AMR could contribute to the spread of mad cow, or bovine spongiform
encephalopathy, the brain-wasting disease that devastated the beef
industry in the United Kingdom in the 1990s.
...
"(Meat processors) have shown over the past decade that they're incapable
of following the guidelines set for them by the USDA, and I'm afraid that
because we're not going to have adequate enforcement, it would be better
to not have the technology at all," said Dr. Michael Greger, a vegan
author, speaker and chief BSE investigator for Farm Sanctuary.

full story:
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,61847,00.html?tw=wn_techhead_1

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