Is Pink Slime in the Beef at Your Grocery Store? ( Archived) (26)

In response to: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/is-pink-slime-in-the-beef-at-your-grocery-store/

Jim Avila

By Jim Avila
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Mar 8, 2012 7:46pm
Is Pink Slime in the Beef at Your Grocery Store?


“Pink slime,” a cheap meat filler, is in 70 percent of the ground beef sold at supermarkets and up to 25 percent of each American hamburger patty, by some estimates.

“It kind of looks like play dough,” said Kit Foshee, who was a corporate quality assurance manager at Beef Products Inc., the company that makes pink slime. “It’s pink and frozen, it’s not what the typical person would consider meat.”

As seen in the movie Food Inc., the low-grade trimmings come from the most contaminated parts of the cow and were once only used in dog food and cooking oil. But because of BPI’s treatment of the trimmings — simmering them in low heat, separating fat and tissue using a centrifuge and spraying them with ammonia gas to kill germs — the United States Department of Agriculture says it’s safe to eat.

The company calls the final product “Finely Textured Lean Beef.” It is flash frozen and boxed. Foshee says it is more like gelatin and not nutritious as ground beef because the protein comes mostly from connective tissue, not muscle meat.

“[It will] fill you up, but won’t do any good,” Foshee said.

purr4mance: Read today 7 million pounds for school lunches.

Viewed report last night on ABC News Nightline. Disgusting to say the least.

Shop and support your neighborhood butcher shop where the beef trimmings are most likely legit.

Partyrock1: The only corporation to be worried about is the US government, go to an airport and they will show you that YOU are a piece of meat to them.

Partyrock1: All 60s liberals bashing corporations following commie Obama to socialist heaven shouldn't be eating meat anyway

Galactic_bodhi: The US Government is who is allowing this to happen. The last time I checked the USDA was part of the government.
Are you a recent addition to CS? You would know I'm not a big fan of Obama if you've been around for awhile. Or did you read the posts and assume a bunch of things about the people posting, based on the subject matter?

As for corporations, when they are held accountable for their actions in the same way as the Sole Proprietor of a small business, I will stop bashing them. Their lack of liability has led this country to the brink of dictatorship, because they always privatize gains and socialize losses. In other words, they keep the profits, and we, the people, pay the tab when they screw up.