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posted by martyb on Tuesday February 28 2017, @10:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the results-are-not-as-foul-as-expected dept.

According to the CBC [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation], researchers at Trent University sampled both the oven roasted chicken filets and the chicken strips that Subway uses on its sandwiches in Canada. After testing six small samples of the filets and three small samples of the strips, the researchers ran a DNA test.

The results showed that the filets contained just 53.6 percent chicken DNA. The strips were found to contain just 42.8 percent chicken DNA.

CBC reports that the rest of the DNA found in the chicken was soy — used either for either seasoning or filler.

http://www.wcpo.com/news/national/subway-chicken-strips-contain-less-than-50-percent-chicken-dna-study-says


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by ledow on Tuesday February 28 2017, @03:04PM (4 children)

    by ledow (5567) on Tuesday February 28 2017, @03:04PM (#472794) Homepage

    If my meat is mostly water and soy, then personally that implies I could eat more meat today than I ever could before, and still be within my daily nutrition limits!

    More seriously, are you paranoid much? Eat meat or don't. Don't start preaching conspiracy theory nonsense trying to influence others.

    Personally, horse tastes fabulous. Apart from dishonesty, I see no problem with horsemeat in product. A horsemeat burger I had in Italy is probably one of the best things I've ever eaten. They eat it all the time.

    Sure, nobody wants dishonesty in ingredients lists, but my gammon steak already tells me that it's about 30-40% water, right on the label, you only have to read it. So long as it lists the correct animal on the list, who cares?

    And to be honest, the answer is "nobody cares" as your chicken strips haven't been chicken strips for an awfully long time, and people still buy them because they like how they taste.

    The only dishonesty here is on the part of the consumer ("Hey, we'd pay more for pure chicken as we can tell the difference IMMEDIATELY, you know!") and - potentially - in not listing the ingredients properly (did anyone ever ask for a list of ingredients?).

    Ingredients in my country are listed in order of amount (first item has the single most weight of ingredient, so you see things like Ingredients: Pork (70%), water, flavourings, etc. and know that there's more water than flavourings.
    In this case, it might say "Chicken, Soy, flavourings, etc." and so long as chicken is the LARGEST single ingredient (by mass or volume depending on the product) then it's being entirely accurate. It could even be only 40% chicken, 39% Soy and the rest all sorts of other stuff. And STILL the ingredients list would read the same, still it would have less than 50% chicken DNA, and still it's being totally TRUTHFUL on the label, compliant with the relevant food labelling regulations.

    If you don't understand that, or don't like that, lobby for a change in labelling. And watch as still most people won't care that their chicken nugget has more breadcrumbs, filling and flavouring than actual chicken - because it tastes nice and they can't tell the difference.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by mmcmonster on Tuesday February 28 2017, @04:57PM (1 child)

    by mmcmonster (401) on Tuesday February 28 2017, @04:57PM (#472860)

    I think the issue is that these things are starting to taste disgusting.

    I generally order a salad at Wendy's as my lunch. Occasionally I would have a 5 piece chicken nugget instead.

    Lately the chicken nuggets have a horrible pasty consistence and taste awful. Happened to me twice in a row.

    No more fast food chicken nuggets for me. Now it's salad or nothing. Until the salad is made with artificial lettuce.

  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by vux984 on Tuesday February 28 2017, @05:06PM

    by vux984 (5045) on Tuesday February 28 2017, @05:06PM (#472871)

    In this case, it might say "Chicken, Soy, flavourings, etc."

    Yes it might, and while its within the regulations. Its not a truthful label.

    If you don't understand that, or don't like that, lobby for a change in labelling.

    Oh i do understand it, and I don't like it. Improving the labeling laws sounds brilliant. A tenet of an ideal free market is that buyers and sellers are informed.

    And watch as still most people won't care that their chicken nugget has more breadcrumbs, filling and flavouring than actual chicken - because it tastes nice and they can't tell the difference.

    Its more complicated than that. If people know its 50% chicken and 50% soy they will value it more accurately. People will care. They may still choose to eat the 50/50 product, because it tastes nice, and its more affordable, and there is nothing wrong with eating soy, but the knowledge will factor into their buying decision... at the very least it will affect their value judgement. They will correctly stop viewing the subway chicken strips as a great 'deal' compared to the other restaurant that charges 2x as much ... for real chicken strips.

  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday February 28 2017, @07:10PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday February 28 2017, @07:10PM (#472968)

    Personally, horse tastes fabulous. Apart from dishonesty, I see no problem with horsemeat in product. A horsemeat burger I had in Italy is probably one of the best things I've ever eaten. They eat it all the time.
    Sure, nobody wants dishonesty in ingredients lists, but my gammon steak already tells me that it's about 30-40% water, right on the label, you only have to read it. So long as it lists the correct animal on the list, who cares?

    Apparently horses are in that category with cats and dog where people don't want to eat them because they're too cute? I've wondered that exact same thing before.

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