Welcome to the "Meet Your Mystery Meat" photo tour on NewsTarget.com. Hold on to your lunch for this one! We're about to take you on a journey into some sick macrophotography of processed meat products.

As I'm a nature macrophotography buff, I took all these pictures myself, in my own kitchen, using the same high-end photography equipment I use to take pictures of flowers and insects. As you'll see from these pictures, the detail is astonishing. You may never look at your sandwich meat the same way again.

All these photos are completely un-touched (they were not Photoshopped in any way except to alter brightness and contrast) and were taken of popular processed meat products purchased at Wal-Mart just yesterday.


http://www.newstarget.com/phototour_mystery_meat_1.html

Reminds me of the lady who kept squeezing tomatoes at the market, trying to find the perfect one. The aggravated produce manager finally said, "Lady, could you pass such a test?" I expect most anything I eat could be made unappetizing with good photography. Except maybe a sterile filtered late harvest Zinfandel.

I seriously feel like I just threw up a little in my mouth.

That's nothing compared to our bodies.

Oscar Mayer Cotto Salami ingredients
Mechanically separated chicken
Beef hearts (you gotta love 'em!)
Pork
Water
Corn syrup
Beef
Contains less than 2% of:
Salt
Sodium lactate
Flavor
Sodium phosphates
Sodium diacetate
Sodium erythorbate (made from sugar)
Dextrose
Sodium nitrite
Soy lecithin
Potassium phosphate
Potassium chloride
Sugar

Yummy:rolleyes:

The only thing sickening about it is the commentary. Seriously. Someone is trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.

Now personaly I wouldn't eat that salami but that's because of the additives.

Beef heart is a good feed.

OK the problem is that many of you don't know what "meat" is. That lean red stuff that you call meat is the muscle of the animal yet the fat and the heart and the kidney's and the liver is ALL meat, just a different type.

So anyway what is a heart? Its the bodies most important muscle isn't it so basicaly its just the same kind of meat that you normaly buy and it tastes pretty much the same too.

So all those horror stories of the funny parts of animals that go into sausages is just silly games. The fat, the heart, the liver is all good. Mindyou the additives are something else but you can't get good pictures of additives.

Regards, Anthony

Processed meat consumption is financial security for people working in the "Health Care Industry". And I don't care what anyone says that stuff is crap.

Being shocked, shocked!, to hear that sausage is gross belies a certain willfull ignorance or at least naivete. Come on, people...there's that old saying about laws and sausages, remember?

I'm with anthony that the additives are the worse than the animal parts. I'm all for using the whole animal; I don't like the weird chemicals that let this stuff survive long trips to market and sit on shelves forever.

When your young you could live on this crap along with soda, chips etc but when you get into the 60's you better eat right or your health is going downhill fast.

You may want to take a close look at peanut butter and whole grain products while your at it. The have some of the highest allowable rodent hair, fecies and insect parts allowed of any thing we eat. If you are that worried, you had better buy every thing fresh and wash it in bleach water x2.
Personaly, I beleave we where designed to eat and survive on all kinds of gross stuff!

Triscuit crackers look pretty cool when magnified.

what matters is when this stuff his the stomach acid, what goes into the blood and what gets pooped out ? he can macro photograph high quality sprouted bread and tuna sandwiches I been eating when I stick my tongue out and get equally disgusting and mysterious pictures. just saying...

all mystery meats are pretty bogus.

Delicious. Now I want some snouts 'n anus sausage. Other than the additives which are genuinely not that good for you, it's meat, and it's edible. Doesn't matter if it's heart, liver, or kidney meat. It's all good. Other healthy cultures, like the Chinese, have been eating those for centuries.

Some of you people are so picky that I can't believe that you are over the age of 10.