Public Biography
Wendell Krauss is a resident of Ypsilanti, Michigan, where he has lived for most of his fifty-eight years. He is a retired heating-and-cooling technician and the subject of a 2026 feature describing his long-standing practice of eating fast-food chicken nuggets in the stated belief that they are produced by the mechanically recovered poultry process — colloquially “red slime” — used principally in animal feed, and his view that this is a point in their favor rather than against.
Mr. Krauss holds, without agitation, the principle that a foodstuff considered acceptable for animals is by that fact acceptable for him, and that to insist otherwise would be a form of vanity he was not raised to. He attributes the conviction to his late father. He has eaten substantially the same midday meal, at the same McDonald’s on Washtenaw Avenue, on most weekdays for approximately eleven years.
He is not known to have campaigned for his view, sought converts, or expressed dissatisfaction with any aspect of his arrangement.