well I'm pretty sure they don't leave it sitting too long... they probably don't want to get sued for $25,000,000 because some little kid almost died of salmonela poisoning or food poisoning and i don't see to many instances of people getting sick because of how its processed. If people want to eat it then their free to eat it. Its obviously not too big of a secret because people know how its made they just choose not to acknowledge it. So @Higby you might as well just drop your "how its made" debate because people eat things that aren't the healthiest for them everyday like to much salt and larger than needed portions. So until you can prove that a processed chicken nugget is actually really that more bad for you than a large bag of salted potatoe chips then get @ me. Sure the thought of it isn't that pleasing...but its not stopping too many people because an average of 85 million Chicken Nuggets are consumed by people worldwide from McDonalds' all over the world every year. So just leave it alone ok.. its just a fun little poll. gosh!