Guess What's In The Picture

Picture source Fooducate

Can you guess what's in the above picture? Choose from the following:

A) Strawberry Ice Cream

B) Chicken

C) Plastic Foam

D) None of the above

If you picked choice A, you'd be wrong. If you picked choice B, you're getting closer, but not totally there. 

The picture shows what "mechanically separated chicken" looks like. 

Mechanically separated chicken was invented in the 1960’s when meat processors discovered they could squeeze a few more percent of profit from chickens, turkeys, pigs, and cows by scraping the bones 100% clean of meat. This is done by machines, not humans, by passing bones leftover after the initial cutting through a high pressure sieve. The paste you see in the picture above is the result. Hungry? I'll be less inclined to grab a hot dog at the next cookout I attend.

Simply put, we are eating things these days that are simply gross. As someone that as battled with weight for several years, I've started to look at the ingredients of my food. My wife and I have tried to shift to foods that include truly natural ingredients, not chemical compounds, and that feature ingredients in their natural state. I'm not into the raw food movement, and wouldn't consider myself to be headed towards a strict organic lifestyle. I like junk food like the rest of America, but I think the food industry has to stop passing this stuff along as things that are safe to eat?

Now that I may have caused you to lose your appetite, what do you think about this? Are you disgusted by the amount of garbage that the USDA and FDA say is allowing into our foods? I look forward to your comments below!

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Staying Idle

The last couple of days, I've been home with some physical discomfort that is pretty painful if I if I do a lot of walking, or twist around in certain ways. If I sit down and don't try to do too much, I feel otherwise fine.

On Tuesday I went to the doctors and they made a preliminary diagnosis of the source of the pain. This morning, I will have a CT scan so they can truly see what is going on. I'm pretty confident that it is nothing serious, but my boss and others have pretty much recommended that I take it real easy until finding out what is wrong.

I hate doing nothing. My job mainly involves desk work, and usually it is not physically demanding. My thoughts are, if I have to sit and stay relaxed, I may as well do that at the office while accomplishing something. Why sit at home and accomplish nothing? There are few things that bother me more than being idle. I have to be doing something that is engaging my mind at all times unless I am sleeping.

I'm looking forward to drinking the tasty vanilla barium contrast this morning before my CT scan. Hopefully you can sense the sarcasm. :)

How do you deal with unwanted downtime? Do you find it challenging to get needed rest when home from your job with an ailment?