You can eat your nuggies, man. But there are plenty more studies correlating the consumption of processed food, which includes mechanically separated chicken nuggets, with increased rates of cancer–that's partially why they could run the meta-analysis in the first place.

Which is it? Chicken nuggets aren't processed foods? Or your new argument that meta-studies aren't particular enough to implicate your specific brand of chicken nuggies?

My point remains that there is correlative research indicating that heavily processed foods, which include chicken nuggets, as I defined them, are linked to cancer. Arguing on the details to try to make the case chicken nuggets aren't bad for you seems like more work than you need to be pouring into this.