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The Sliming
Slate ^ | 10-25-2012 | Daniel Engber

Posted on 10/25/2012 2:38:51 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot

What do you call a mash of beef trimmings that have been chopped and then spun in a centrifuge to remove the fatty bits and gristle? According to the government and to the company that invented the process, you call it lean finely textured beef. But to the natural-food crusaders who would have the stuff removed from the nation's hamburgers and tacos, the protein-rich product goes by another, more disturbing name: Pink slime.

.... (Read more at link to see how vegan activists rebranding a product to smear, and how readily media followed up the lead from activists to creat an artificial 'pink slime crisis' and a minor public hysteria.)

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...


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1 posted on 10/25/2012 2:38:55 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
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To: Sir Napsalot

Heh. There were plenty of FReepers jumping on that slimy bandwagon when it was news, too. They’d been eating it most of their lives, but, all of a sudden, were fine with its being outlawed.


2 posted on 10/25/2012 2:46:47 PM PDT by BfloGuy (Teach a man to fish and you lose a Democratic voter.)
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To: BfloGuy
They'll be back, along with the other food or additive mongers. Let me see, HFCS? GMO Corn? Aspartame?

And thats not to say they dont have a point, but.......

3 posted on 10/25/2012 2:50:29 PM PDT by Paradox (I want Obama defeated. Period.)
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To: BfloGuy

“They’d been eating it most of their lives, but, all of a sudden, were fine with its being outlawed.”

So, you think that most FReepers are teenagers? The stuff was only approved for human consumption in 2001.

Also, I don’t remember hardly anyone actually wanting to outlaw it, just to have it labeled properly, and not marketed to us deceptively as “ground beef”. If it’s so great, then they shouldn’t have to lie to the public in order to get us to buy it.


4 posted on 10/25/2012 2:53:32 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
And, to add precision to this debate ground beef is beef which is ground, and beef which is ground is ground beef.

Stirred into a pan to avoid clumping prior to making chilly it is, of course, ground fried beef or fried ground beef or ground beef, fried, then, you can make patties ~ and a ground beef patty is called a hamburger ~ even though it has no ham in it!~

5 posted on 10/25/2012 2:58:48 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Sir Napsalot

I call it bologna! And I think it’s delicious.

Native Americans are lauded for using the whole buffalo. We use the whole cow and are called gross for it.


6 posted on 10/25/2012 3:38:26 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Persevero

Obviously these folks have never been to a pig farm here in Germany or a real metzgerei...see “leberkaese”, “blutwurst” and “griebenschmalz”! ;-)


7 posted on 10/25/2012 4:05:40 PM PDT by gr8eman (Ron Swanson for President!)
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To: muawiyah

What about beef that I drop on the ground? Can I call that “ground beef”? Five second rule is in effect, of course.


8 posted on 10/25/2012 4:55:55 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Persevero

That seems offal unfair.


9 posted on 10/25/2012 4:58:28 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman
They say that 5 second rule is to much time ~ the bacteria can hop around and get on your stuff faster.

But if you cook it then it ought to turn out OK.

10 posted on 10/25/2012 5:19:52 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

Well, even if the five second rule is invalidated, I still have my “God made dirt, dirt don’t hurt” corollary to fall back on.


11 posted on 10/25/2012 5:42:15 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: muawiyah
They say that 5 second rule is to much time ~ the bacteria can hop around and get on your stuff faster. But if you cook it then it ought to turn out OK.

oh yuck...at least brush off the dirt, leaves and grass first......

12 posted on 10/25/2012 6:51:06 PM PDT by terycarl
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