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I have a great friend who loves to cook and eat…and why she sent me this, I have NO idea, because I’m always eating McDonalds. Here’s a take from what is actually in some of the food we eat:
1. Duck Feathers and Chinese Women’s Hair
McDonald’s admitted that the l-cysteine (That’s hair or duck feathers) is used in its Baked Hot Apple Pie, as well as its Wheat Roll and Warm Cinnamon Roll, was of the duck-feather variety. Many other fast-food joints rely on l-cysteine in bakery products as well.
2. Sand
Silicon dioxide, also known as silica (also known as sand!), is used to make glass, optical fibers, ceramics, and cement. Oh, and chili. Used as an anti-caking agent, it is often added to processed beef and chicken to prevent clumping, and is listed in the ingredient panels for chili from both Wendy’s and Taco Bell.
3. Wood
Processed wood pulp, known as cellulose, is used in everything from cheese to salad dressing, from muffins to strawberry syrup. McDonalds, Taco Bell, KFC, Sonic, Pizza Hut, Wendy’s, Arby’s, Jack in the Box, and many others include cellulose in their repertoire.
(So THAT’s why most women can’t get rid of their cellulose thighs. You need to SHAVE it off.) 
4. Silly Putty
Eight-syllable ingredients make sense for Silly Putty, but French fries? Sure enough, dimethylpolysiloxane, a form of silicone used in cosmetics and Silly Putty, is also found in many a fast-food fried thing. It is the secret ingredient that keeps fryer oil from foaming. McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish and French fries have it, as do Wendy’s Natural-Cut Fries With Sea Salt. In fact, most fast-food items that bathe in a deep-fat fryer are imbued with a hint of dimethylpolysiloxane.
(I’m having trouble imagining this one. ) Â 
5. Petroleum
Petroleum-derived preservatives (TBHQ) Â Tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) is made from compounds derived from petroleum and finds a home in cosmetic and skincare products, varnish, lacquers and resins – and processed food. McDonald’s, for example, uses it in 18 products ranging from their Fruit and Walnut Salad to Griddle Cakes to McNuggets.
(Which is why we MUST drill for oil here….McDonalds would go under if we went to war with Iran.)
6. Beetles
Meet carminic acid, a commonly used red food coloring that comes from the dried, crushed bodies of female scale insects called cochineal. Variously known as Cochineal, Cochineal Extract, Carmine, Crimson Lake, Natural Red 4, C.I. 75470, E120 – it is used in a wide variety of products ranging from some meat, sausages, processed poultry products, marinades, bakery products, toppings, cookies, deserts, icings, pie fillings, jams, preservs, gelatins, juices, drinks, dairy products, sauces and dessert products
7. Slime
It is commonly referred to as “pink slime.” Looking more like frosting than pureed meat and bone bits, the FDAÂ defines mechanically separated poultry (MSP) as “a paste-like and batter-like poultry product produced by forcing bones, with attached edible tissue, through a sieve or similar device under high pressure to separate bone from the edible tissue.”
(Sounds pretty much like most of Congress, with the exception of Al Gore who would be called Green Slime.)
Okay. if you want more go here.
I might try adding a bit of sand to my chili, or some Silly Putty to my fryer.Â
Nobody thought reading about Monsanto was bad….the genetically altered strawberry that I was repulsed by is starting to look pretty good.
(Uh..Thanks to Mona, I think. ) Â
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Cysteine is an amino acid, a building block of proteins that are used throughout the body. When taken as a supplement, it is usually in the form of N-acetyl-L-cysteine (NAC). The body makes this into cysteine and then into glutathione, a powerful antioxidant.-
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L-Cysteine is an amino acid that is closely related to Cystine. Cystine contains sulfur and is formed by two molecules of L-Cysteine. L-Cysteine is also a sulfur containing amino acid. It is used to manufacture L-glutathione and L-taurine.’**’:
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Thanks Joy. I think one could add that it is pretty clever making useful foodstuff out of hair. It does not digest easily, usually. Even animamals (cats for example) that clean their hair by licking and thereby ingest it, can’t seem to digest the stuff. It just gathers in a ball in the guts and stuffs other stuff up.
Same with finger nails.
Perhaps Mother Nature gave up trying to find a way for dealing with it. But some clever chap with a pencil and a sciency gizmo didn’t. (Or maybe a chapess).
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DREAD to think what astonauts eat. It is all in tubes that have to operate under weightless conditions and reduce ‘waste’ product (you know what I mean).
But heck, all food is chemical in nature. It is made from all sorts of chemical stuff with complicated names. OK, we are used to eating stuff that has once ‘grown’, but you won’t want to know too much about those items either. Have you ever really examined a potato? I mean for its chemical content. What about a chicken? And don’t even think about what chickens eat.
Salmon is a favourite of mine. I like a bit of salmon ‘steak’ almost every week. We actually grow the beasties here in Tasmania. Millions of them in our pristine waters. But by the Lord Harry they are messy beasts and eat stuff that would make you puke just thinking about it.
Let us understand something Fundemental: Human beings (and other somewhat lesser beings) are energy converters. We ingest ‘stuff’ and extract from it what we need. We didn’t have any say in how we extract it or even what we needed. We like to give the ‘stuff’ easy-to-relate-to names, like ‘meat’ and ‘potatos’. And they taste pretty good too. Because we are ourselves made in such a way that those things taste good. Indeed they are good for us.
But in and of themselves they are just ‘stuff’; stuff that is one bit/form of cold energy in the form of material stuff. It is energy. Whatever the name we give to it or how it has its own way of growing, it is consumed, broken down, and the reaminings that we don’t use (not that we had any say in that either) is excreted. Heck, given a bit of paper and a pencil and someone could have worked out a better way of doing that even.
Tertiary butylhydroquinone is ‘stuff’ that someone with a pencil and paper figured out could keep other stuff going a bit longer before it naturally decayed and turned into uningestible stuff.
l-cysteine is another bit of stuff that is naturally occuring in some growing thingumies. Just because we don’t usually eat the hair/feathers of some creatures – because it gets caught between our teeth – doesn’t mean we cannot. The American Indians (bless their brightly painted faces and clever use of hunting knives) used every last bit of the Buffalo – so we are told. I am sure there were bits that they used for sewing and dressing themselves in, making teepees from etc ONLY becuase those bits were to tough to eat.
Now eat your carrots and broccoli. And say Grace first.
🙂
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We are converting sand into energy. Silly Putty is being feed to Olympics. That should be illegal. You make some fine points there amfortas! Nobody has died yet from eating hair.
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