Holy crap! I just got a chance to read through this thread and your a loon. The tubes of beef you are buying are not tubes of lean textured beef, aka pink slime. You are buying tubes of ground beef that has pink slime added to it. The pink slime is made from trimmings that used to go to animal food production, but now some chemicals are added to it that are capable of killing E. coli. BPI was able to get the gubmint to approve of the pink slime as beef so that they do not have to put it on the label. This is a conservative sight and we generally question our government when they make such decisions. If it’s so good, why did they get double secret permission to label it a different name from what it is? If it is so good, why not tell the world the amazing story of pink slime and how awesome it is at preventing E. coli?
So to recap: You are not buying a tube, or any container shape, of pink slime. You are buying ground beef that has this added to it.
another hyped up campaign to further another democrat leftist cause. when are people going to wake up to what they’re doing?
When I was a butcher twenty years ago, the price of ground beef varied from $2.29 (on sale) to $5.99 regular price. Today, with inflation the cost of beef was $2.99 (on sale) and $5.49 regular price. Boneless chicken has fared better with the price for customers actually going down.
How does everyone this this happened? They found more ways to use more of the cow and better ways of growing chickens faster.
I remember that we would throw some of this stuff in the barrel for animal processing but it seemed like a waste. I see they came up with a way to process that perfectly good product for human consumption. It’s 100% pure beef, just processed more.
This will do absolutely nothing towards making us safer and will result in nothing but higher prices.
There is a reason it’s called “processing” and not “flower arrangement” they people that do it are called “butchers” and not florists.
Thank you! I have tried to explain this over and over to netmilsmom throughout this entire thread, yet for some reason this member simply refuses to understand the facts and apparently won't accept any source of information that could further explain what "lean, finely textured beef" product actually is and how it is ADDED to ground beef as a FILLER.
If I had to guess, when stores (Kroger in this persons case) started yanking anything with "pink slime" from their shelves her favorite "tube" of ground beef vanished and she thought that meant the whole thing was "pink slime". Apparently our stubborn forum member simply doesn't understand what she was buying was ground beef with "lean, finely textured beef" (aka pink slime) filler added to it.
So to repeat one more time, "lean, finely textured beef" is an additive, a filler. It is not a stand alone product. If it were so wonderful it would be, but it isn't.
Um, sorry. YOU bought the hype
This is from the Beef Products site
http://beefproducts.com/why_its_good.php
>>I just got a chance to read through this thread and your a loon. <<
Lord I love when people start calling names and are misinformed.
You and the other poster here go from the assumption that I have no clue what this product is. My brother-in-law worked one of these grocery stores. I know EXACTLY what it is.
So, before you start with the name calling, prove it.
Prove how much “ground beef” goes into those tubes and how much “LTB” by percentage. YOU CAN’T. It’s all labelled as beef. The USDA labels all of it as beef. So while all the MSM sheeple bleat the same tired facts that ABC has lovingly dripped out, you bought it and use the MSM as your references instead of researching yourself.
Now you and your friend Longbow need a bit of education. Look at this from a fellow poster
“another hyped up campaign to further another democrat leftist cause. when are people going to wake up to what they’re doing?
When I was a butcher twenty years ago, the price of ground beef varied from $2.29 (on sale) to $5.99 regular price. Today, with inflation the cost of beef was $2.99 (on sale) and $5.49 regular price. Boneless chicken has fared better with the price for customers actually going down.
How does everyone this this happened? They found more ways to use more of the cow and better ways of growing chickens faster.
I remember that we would throw some of this stuff in the barrel for animal processing but it seemed like a waste. I see they came up with a way to process that perfectly good product for human consumption. It’s 100% pure beef, just processed more.
This will do absolutely nothing towards making us safer and will result in nothing but higher prices.
There is a reason it’s called “processing” and not “flower arrangement” they people that do it are called “butchers” and not florists.”
>>If it is so good, why not tell the world the amazing story of pink slime and how awesome it is at preventing E. coli?<<
Why didn’t they tell? Why don’t they tell how they make Hot Dogs? Why is it that everytime the MSM reports that there is a maximum amount of roach hairs or bug parts allowed, the public goes nuts? Etc.
You’re playing into their hands. The price of YOUR beef is about to skyrocket.