Mike Adams' Mystery Meat photo series has been getting quite a bit of attention online. He shows super close-ups of meat. Once you zoom in, the resulting images can be quite gross.

“I'm a nature macro-photography 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 the photos are completely un-touched.

Click "this post continues" to see three examples, or check out the whole series. After you see this, you may be glad that you are vegetarian.

This picture shows a 3x magnification of Oscar Mayer's Cotto Salami product. Adams points out the huge black chunk of something that looks quite unsightly.

"What is it? Note that the ingredients list of this product lists no pepper! In fact, I can't find anything in the ingredients list that would account for these black specs that appear throughout the meat..."

A 4x magnification of Jimmy Dean sausages showing some of the beef collagen casing (the stuff that looks like rice paper).

Adams points out that the casing is "made from interesting beef parts. This photo also shows more of the stringy texture and fat configuration."

This is a 2x magnification photo showing the various textures inside an Oscar Mayer wiener.

Adams says: "It's basically just ground up pork bits. I call it "Mystery Meat" because it's a mystery to me why anyone would want to eat it..."