As shown in the Snopes article linked to by the previous commenter, kids were shown the entire process of making chicken nuggets as part of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution show. They were sufficiently grossed out seeing the chicken in the pink toothpaste stage, but, as soon as it looked like a familiar chicken nugget, they all wanted one. Jamie said UK kids refused the final product…

just go vegetarian for heavens sake…it’s so much easier

I’ve eaten worse things. Ever had chitlins or pigs feet?

Have to agree with Laure68 :-). Though that doesn’t mean I won’t be forwarding a link to my MIL with a “this is why he doesn’t get nuggets…”

That’s a great recipe, if you like dead birds on your plate, but, what about all the poor people who can’t afford the ingredients or all the so very stretched working families who “just don’t have time” to prepare something like this from scratch, they DO have excuses, right?????? (I’ve heard allll that before here on babble)

I dropped that argument because you can’t beat a dead horse…my last comment was not an argument for vegetarianism in that vein. Seriously, though, to me, a slurry of non-meat sludge is less gross than meat sludge, but that’s just me. I wouldn’t go bragging about eating veggie burgers or mock meat, myself. I do think it removes a whole lot of worry about what one eats when they don’t eat meat. The “dead animal” thing doesn’t “gross me out” I just think it’s cruel, actually. And I thought it was funny that the same person (I think, I get the michelles confused on Babble) that always talks about the poor and downtrodden says there’s “no excuse for ever feeding processed food to children”…people are always making excuses for everything on here…that’s what’s funny to me.

I feel like if air were made out of meat there would be humans eating that as well..its human nature to want to control and destroy..no coincidence that americans eat a lot of meat along side brazilians whose country is beautiful yet overridden with obsession of the flesh..that being said if it was uncovered that meat was actually mixed with human placenta and 4 tablespoons of sputum from a patient on a vent in the hospital…well lets just say there would still be people eating meat..just like there are people who still smoke..some even started the same week the campaigns came out with pics of diseased lungs.. so people will still consume into their bodies what is not good for them and may kill them..I hate to say it but its becoming a sub sector of natural selection..the irony is that any proud meat eater will justify killing animals stating its survival of the fittest or natural selection..so lets just say some humans who are naturally selected have decided to de-select themselves out of the choices they make..by the way I eat meat minus fast food and perdue(the man in the commercials is not the owner hes an actor)..just not everyday..ie its not 3/4 of my plate at dinner..not even twice a week. I was a veggie for five years and then I just started eating meat..I feel like who cares in the end..anything on the dollar menu at Mc Donald’s is going to be fake anyways..even the fruit and veggies..bc its on the dollar menu! The moral of the story is we buy what we can afford and try to stay away from second-hand smoke..even if we are the ones smoking.

I saw this picture a while ago here on Strollerderby, and my kids haven;t touched a nugget since. They rarely ate them before, anyway, since we don’t really like processed food.

I stand by all my comments. My husband and I both work full time and we can still manage to find plenty of quick/easy recipes online to make good food from scratch. There is no excuse for ME or anyone else earning a middle-class-and-up income to ever voluntarily feed processed food to their children. Poor/working class people shouldn’t either, but I understand why they are often forced to and wouldn’t judge them for it until we have some real changes in this country. The grownups in those cases can’t afford to eat anything better, either. But what possible reason could there be for so many restaurants in our relatively well-off neighborhood to have kids’ menus with industrial “chicken” nuggets on them while their parents have the local seasonal veggies and Niman Ranch lamb? That’s just wrong. Our kids eat what we eat — real food.

While there are a good many reasons not to eat fast food, this one is not true. You should do a little more research before you post “facts” like this. You’ve effectively made it so I can’t believe anything on your site – way to discredit yourself.

Sorry, no poor person has an excuse either–you can get a whole chicken for five or six bucks. You can feed your family for pennies a plate if you’re willing to put in a small amount of effort.

Mmmmm! Call me crazy but it doesn’t change my mind. I LOVE CHICKEN NUGGETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!