Posted on 03/27/2012 6:52:52 AM PDT by EBH
Craig Letch, director of food quality and assurance for Beef Products Inc., declined to discuss financial details but said business has taken a "substantial" hit since social media exploded with worry over the ammonia-treated filler and an online petition seeking its ouster from schools drew hundreds of thousands of supporters. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has decided school districts may stop using it, and some retail chains have pulled products containing it from their shelves.
"...We feel like when people can start to understand the truth and reality then our business will come back," he said. "It's 100 percent beef."
The lower-cost ingredient is made from fatty bits of meat left over from other cuts. The bits are heated and spun to remove most of the fat. The lean mix then is compressed into blocks for use in ground meat. The product is exposed to ammonium hydroxide gas to kill bacteria, such as E. coli and salmonella.
The result is a product that is as much as 97 percent lean beef, Letch said.
"At a time when so many Americans struggle to put a healthy, nutritious meal on their family's dinner table, the unfounded mischaracterization of Lean Finely Textured Beef as 'pink slime' is unconscionable," Barry Carpenter, chief executive officer of the National Meat Association, said in a Monday statement. ...
...Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, who has campaigned against the filler's use, praised "people power" for getting it removed from so many products.
"I hope the U.S. government is also listening because it's partly responsible for lying to the public for allowing this cheap, low-quality meat filler to be used for so long without having to legally state its presence on packaging," Oliver said in an email statement provided to The Associated Press.
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Gotta do something about that name first.
And while you're at it, do something about that name, too.
I thought the pink slime was made into
chicken nuggets...?
Is this another pink slime?
No, that’s white slime.............
“Pink Slime” sounds like a very food-safe product, even if a bit engineered and having an unfortunate name. I would trust the producers of it.
Wait until enviro-opportunists attack the vegetable oil industry. Nearly all vegetable oil consumed in the USA is produced using hexane - the toxic, explosive component of gasoline.
You’ll then pay double for that food product as well.
I have been saying for several years now that burgers from fast food joints taste like cardboard, and have since stopped going very often like I used to. Now I know why they taste like they do.
I remember the line from the old Wendy’s commercial, “Parts is pieces parts”..........
Michele Obama’s pal got Taco Bell and McDonalds to stop using it. They have the federal government buying it by the trainload though.
as well as everything that veg oils are used in, i.e. margarine, whipped desert toppings, soaps, detergents, etc.......
Having been in the US military, I can assure you that the food in the mess halls had pink slime well before Moochelle was born.........;^)
When we are starving because energy prices have “necessarily skyrocketed” we are going to be wishing for “pink slime”.
It’s Scrapple. We ate it for breakfast when I was a kid.
When one reads the “Little House” books, one sees the goodies they survived on.
they also had horsemeat pink slime in Germany.
I think our taste bud have changed over the years as well. That and we’ve been exposed to actual GOOD food, so the stuff we ate when we were younger does not hold up against that as well.
I’m struggling with this with my son, who is 5. He wants to go to McDonalds all the time. I greatly limit it, but there are simply times when it’s simply the most convenient, or I just give in. Luckily, he’s chicken eater and not a burger kid, so far.
Spielen Sie Fleisch Rosafarben Schleim.......
We lately have been going to a local burger joint that served good old fashioned juicy, greasy burgers from the grill. But, lately they must have started buying their meat from the same places as the national chains, as their burgers have started to taste like cardboard, too, and their very dry...........
It was named that by the silly, little, British cooking show host Jamie Oliver. There's nothing wrong with the stuff and, now, not only will people probably be put out of work, low-cost ground beef will no longer be available.
Just because some people don't like something, it doesn't mean it must go out of production. This whole "pink slime" business is just another uninformed fad against a harmless substance.
next time an Obama Campaign Fundraiser comes calling, have a different answer...
Ever sine the pink slime report about McDonalds hamburgers I simply cannot go there.
Ever sine the pink slime report about McDonalds hamburgers I simply cannot go there.
I would just change the nomenclature from “slime, pink” to “dogs, hot”.
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