Of the thirty-eight ingredients it takes to make a McNugget, I counted thirteen that can be derived from corn: the corn-fed chicken itself; modified cornstarch (to bind the pulverized chicken meat); mono-, tri-, and diglycerides (emulsifiers, which keep the fats and water from separating); dextrose; lecithin (another emulsifier); chicken broth (to restore some of the flavor that processing leeches out); yellow corn flour and more modified cornstarch (for the batter); cornstarch… [read post]

"I'd heard of using leeches to "restore circulation in blocked blood veins," but this technique goes a step further; touted as a replacement for anti-biotics, these little bugs could save the government-run health system millions of pounds.It may be only a matter of time before this medical breakthrough catches on over here. [read post]

Anybody can edit a Wikipedia page, so spammers can and do insert links to their unwanted sites, thereby leeching off the popularity of Wikipedia. [read post]

In such circumstances, the proper course was to transfer the consolidated actions to Supreme Court pursuant to Article VI, Section 19(f) of the New York State Constitution ....Thus, according to the AT, the Civil Court may neither play host to costly parasitic claims nor permit litigants to impermissibly leech that forum's judicial resources. [read post]

They are leeches on the back of society. [read post]