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Be careful of fake chickens.
They're everywhere.
I'm talking about true impostor chickens.
I'm not talking about fake chicken,
I'm not talking about tofurkey or any kind of fake chicken
that's a vegan substitute, I'm talking about
legitimate impostor chicken that's showing up in
fast food restaurants, showing up on grocery store
shelves everywhere.
It's mechanically separated chicken and maybe you've
seen some of the videos out there that show what
really goes into making mechanically separated chicken.
But let me break it down here for you so you have a
solid understanding, okay?
When a chicken goes through any kind of plant,
it goes through harvest, first thing's first all the
desirable cuts are cut off.
The thighs, the breast, the drumsticks,
the things that people really want.
And you're left with a carcass.
Left with a carcass that has tendons, it has ligaments,
it has cartilage, it might have a little bit of bone
and then it also has maybe some intestine,
some pieces of intestines, all really lovely,
but rather gross things.
And it's put through a machine and this machine is
like an extruder.
And this extruder absolutely strips everything off
the bone and then pushes it through a sieve under
extremely high pressure.
So it takes all these things that are coming off the bone,
pushes them through an extruder and you're left with
a paste, a wonderful paste.
A paste that is gray, okay?
A nice gray paste.
But that's okay because we're gonna add some coloring
to it, we have amazing things.
So this gray paste now becomes pink.
So now it smells awful, but it's a pretty pink color.
So that's okay let's go ahead and add some ammonium
hydroxide to it.
What is ammonium hydroxide?
It's straight up ammonia.
And the thing is, the USDA says that ammonia is safe
in small quantities and the amount that's used in
mechanically separated chicken is perfectly safe,
but the USDA will allow just about anything to go through
and when it was first allowed in 2001 there was
practically zero research that was even done on the
safety of ammonium hydroxide.
Why is this ammonia put in there?
It's to kill off all the bacteria that may be there
from the insterility of it.
Maybe from the bacteria that's from the colon or
from the small intestines or that's just been loitering
around on the tendon's ligaments.
So add some ammonia to it and you're totally find, right?
Here's the thing, ammonia is a biproduct of protein
breakdown.
We all have ammonia in our bodies, and that's where
I guess the USDA said this was perfectly fine,
but at the end of the day too much ammonia is toxic
to the liver, it's toxic to our endocrine system,
and it's toxic to us in general.
So now you've got this paste that's treated with
ammonia but the next step is, well let's add some
antiseptics to it.
Antiseptics are gonna make sure that it doesn't
flourish with more bacteria later on down the line
before it gets to the fast food chain.
So let's put basically a form of hand sanitizer
in there too.
Which is only further gonna mess up your endocrine
system.
So what do we have to look at here?
Like how are you going to determine what is fake
chicken and what is real.
Well if you've ever had real chicken you're gonna know
the different between real chicken and fake chicken,
but here's two things that you can do.
Take your chicken nugget and cut it in half.
Take a look at it.
If it looks like a cobweb, it's mechanically separated
chicken, okay?
It's been broken down and you're left with just tiny
strands of basically nothingness that has no
nutritional value.
The other thing you can do is hold I up to your good
old schnoz, give it a whiff, and if it smells like
ammonia or it smells like sulfur throw that thing
in the trash because it's only gonna harm your
liver more than anything.
Not to mention it has a past history that's rather
disgusting and I'd rather not associate myself with
anything like that in my life.
So there you have it, I'm just here to instill fear
in you and to ruin everything about your life.
Nah, but in seriousness, I don't think that you should
be consuming this stuff.
It's scary, it can absolutely deplete your mineral
values in your body which is everything that we're
working towards, especially here at jigsaw,
but it's also gonna make it so your liver has to work
overtime and can't process the healthy things that you
truly want in your body to allow you to live the most
plentiful life possible.
So I know this video had a few cracks in it,
but that's because here at Jigsaw Health we're all about
laughter because we know that laughter is the best
medicine and magnesium is a close second.
I'll see you in the next video.