lean, finely textured beef AKA "Pink Slime"
 

This from a national news site: I wonder if our local grocery outlets have stopped selling this product?
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Supermarket chains Kroger and Stop & Shop said Thursday they will join the growing list of store chains that will no longer sell beef that includes an additive with the unappetizing moniker "pink slime." Federal regulators say the ammonia-treated filler, known in the industry as "lean, finely textured beef," meets food safety standards.

I saw the special on that and can hardly eat a burger this week.

It doesn't harm us we are told, but yucko.

All processed foods, especially baked goods, ice cream, pizza, chips 'n' dips etc., are very bad for your health. The only difference here is that it suffered from its name "pink slime". Many who are repulsed by the name, will still eat numerous other highly processed (junk) foods.

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Publix has been on record as not carrying beef with "pink slime".

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Not only in ground beef
 

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Ish...pink slime
 

My dad owned a small town meat market and I worked for him during my Wonder years. We never had anything like "pink slime" back in those days and I was kind of sick when I first heard about this additive. Fortunately, I stopped eating beef a long time ago and eat mostly free-range poultry and ocean-caught fish. But I still worry about what's going into the foods we eat. I know it's probably safe but it just doesn't sound natural and I have to believe that at some point, it's got to be bad for us. Don't get me wrong, I love junk and most processed food but I don't think it loves me so I, for one, am staying away from anything that includes "slime".

We have a KitchenAid Mixer and have been grinding all our meats for a long time. Not only do we do this to ensure we don't eat "pink slime", we also do this to help protect us from ecoli. It's not fail proof but risks are reduced. Whenever you buy pre-packaged ground meat you are getting meat from many different animals increasing the risk of ecoli bacteria. By grinding our own, we reduce, but not eliminate, being infected with the ecoli bacteria.

When the news media picked up on the "pink slime" additive to ground meats and when we learned about it's use in the fast food industry, we stopped ordering any ground meat entries at fast food restaurants. We became strictly chicken breast sandwich eaters! I am so happy to hear that McDonalds, Burger King, and Taco Bell no longer serve any ground meat products with "pink slime". I have been going through withdrawal not having a Taco Bell taco or a McDonald's double hamburger!

There have been some very insightful comments on this thread. BTW: You do not want to know what is in chicken nuggets. It is basically the pink slime equivalent. Clearly, the closer you stay to food products in their original form, the less likely you will entertain bizarre additives.

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You better hope they don't bring horse slaughter back in the US and try to market THAT meat. Filled with steroids, hormones, dewormers, vaccinations, and pretty much every horse has had bute which is linked to cancer. Aside from the fact that horses are companion animals, and raised that way, they simply aren't raised as a food animal. Not to mention they haven't figured out a way to slaughter them humanely...it is a horrific slaughter.

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