FReepathon day 42.
Two percent a day keeps the 404 away.
Posted on 08/12/2014 6:08:48 PM PDT by markomalley
Beef Products Inc will reopen a Kansas processing plant on Monday to boost production of "lean finely textured beef," which critics call "pink slime," as wholesale beef prices soar with a shrinking U.S. cattle herd.The reopening of the Garden City, Kansas, plant comes more than two years after it was shuttered following a national media controversy about the BPI product.
The plant will collect raw chunks of meat and fat beef trimmings from a neighboring Tyson Foods (TSN.N) slaughterhouse, package them into large bins, and then ship the refrigerated containers to BPI's processing facility in Dakota City, Nebraska, BPI said on Tuesday.
The company aims to hire 40 to 45 people for the Kansas plant, which had more than 230 employees prior to its closure.
BPI is the leading maker of the low-fat product made from chunks of beef, including trimmings, and exposed to tiny bursts of ammonium hydroxide to kill E. coli and other dangerous contaminants.
And until the spring of 2012, the company had four state-of-the art plants, more than 1,300 employees and was expanding aggressively. Few Americans realized the product was a mainstay of fast-food burgers, school lunch tacos and homemade meatloaf.
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Why is the US heard shrinking ? Govt. farming regulations?
Yuck. I’m so glad we have a local farmer and a family owned butcher shop. Nothing like pointing out my meal while it’s still alive!
Ethanol in gasoline.
How can people be against finding a productive use for materials that would otherwise be thrown away? It is the perfect example of conservation. Ya don’t like it don’t buy it.
If I was to guess, the farmers probably make more money selling feed corn for ethanol than to use it as feed for their herds.
But that is a guess on my part.
I spent 5 years in Garden City, KS. At the time the local IBP plant was the largest packing house in the world. I have no idea if this plant has any relation. They have the same initials but in a different order.
I have a theory that “pink slime” is actually created in DC. It’s what’s left after they’re done cooking the books.
Pink slime is nothing but pureed beef. It is no different than beef in a baby food jar.
Cost of corn, but mostly the drought a couple of years ago causing farmers to send more cows to slaughter than usual.
Is “pink slime” bad?
just a little more thorough than what is in a hot dog I guess?
I Am the Slime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWA-TXJmeQo
It’s trimmings and connective tissues ground with ammonia. It’s then mixed with ground beef so that incompetent workers can mishandle it without the customers getting e. Coli and salmonella.
Not exactly. You missed the ammonia part. And for the record, I make all my baby food.
lol
Star Wars, anti-choice, pink slime, the left gets to rename everything.
Lol! Yes that too! I’m trying to convince my husband to invest what we would have spent on formula for the three kids in diamond stud earrings. It’s not working.
lol
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