Sentences with phrase «as pink slime»

In an effort to ensure that meat glue doesn't endure the same fate as pink slime, the meat industry is responding to recent criticism.

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As consumer concern grew, a number of food companies pledged to drop pink slime from their meat, or they reiterated they already had ditched the product.

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Meanwhile, a manufacturer of pink slime, Lubbock, Texas - based Beef Products Inc., created a response website called beefisbeef.com to offer «truth and reality» to its product as well as took out a full - page ad in The Wall Street Journal defending itself.

The chain, which serves flash - frozen patties made with 100 percent USDA - inspected beef, touts them as free from «preservatives, fillers, extenders, and so - called pink slime.»

From oil in Gatorade to the amount of caffeine and other stimulants in energy drinks and the so - called «pink slime» found in beef, previously unnoticed ingredients are coming under scrutiny as health - conscious consumers demand more information about what they eat and drink, and sometimes go public via social networking and the Internet.

Before signing off, I wanted to share a few links related to yesterday's remarkably high - wattage press conference, arranged by BPI yesterday to defend its lean, finely textured beef, also known as «pink slime:»

The beef product known as «pink slime» or lean finely textured beef is frozen on large drums as part of the manufacturing process at the Beef Products Inc. plant in South Sioux City, Nebraska March 29, 2012.

BPI claimed that ABC harmed its reputation and cost sales by mischaracterizing its «lean finely textured beef» as «pink slime» in reports aired in March and April 2012.

(Reuters)- ABC News has failed to persuade a South Dakota state judge to dismiss a $ 1.2 billion defamation lawsuit by a meat processor complaining about a series of reports that referred to its signature product as «pink slime.»

* Republican governors watch automated production process * Say campaign against «pink slime» unwarranted scare SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb., March 29 (Reuters)- A maker of the hamburger filler branded by critics as «pink slime» on Thursday allowed three state governors supportive of the U.S. beef industry and a handful of journalists to see it being made for the first time since a controversy erupted over use of the meat scraps.

BPI contends that ABC falsely and repeatedly characterized the product as an unsafe and unsavory «pink slime» in an effort «to incite and inflame consumers» against it.

(Repeats for wider coding, story unchanged) SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb, March 30 (Reuters)- A maker of the hamburger filler branded by critics as «pink slime» on Thursday allowed three state governors supportive of the beef industry and a handful of journalists to see it being made for the first time since a controversy erupted over use of the meat scraps.

There is no such thing as «pink slime».

Lean finely textured beef, called «pink slime» by critics, is frozen on large drums as part of the manufacturing process at a plant in South Sioux City, Neb..

I do agree that calling it «pink slime» is just as misleading as saying «lean finely textured beef».

If they actually knew what was going on, they would not report this as «pink slime» but as LFTB.

Readers who've long been following the beef industry's response to the controversy surrounding lean finely textured beef (LFTB, commonly known as «pink slime») will remember the first website and Twitter hash tag marshaled in defense of the product: «pinkslimeisamyth.»

On Sunday, the Houston Chronicle ran my opinion piece about pink slime, the content of which will be somewhat familiar to Lunch Tray readers as I've advanced many of the same arguments here.

Beef Products Inc., maker of lean, finely textured beef (aka LFTB and commonly referred to as «pink slime») has announced this morning that it is filing a state court defamation lawsuit against ABC News arising out of the network's coverage of the... [Continue reading]

But to the extent the Times was pointing to Cargill's announcement as a reason not to pursue legislation requiring the labeling of controversial food ingredients, I felt (having played a role in the 2012 «pink slime» controversy) a need to respond.

Back in September, Beef Products Inc. (BPI), the manufacturer of «lean, finely textured beef» (LFTB, also known as «pink slime»), served me with a subpoena in connection with its pending defamation lawsuit in South Dakota state court.

Just as some people relish the idea of a beef tongue sandwich and others are repelled at the notion, many consumers want to avoid pink slime for reasons both rational and irrational.

Somehow Los Angeles USD and other districts around the country are serving school meals on the same federal reimbursement as everyone else and not serving beef with pink slime.

I am very concerned that mis - categorization campaigns such as this «pink slime» campaign will cause well - intentioned companies such as BPI to cease innovations for developing better food safety technologies and strategies.

As I stated earlier, I have personally visited their plant and the categorization of calling their product «pink slime» is completely false and incendiary.

The noise about lean finely textured beef (LFTB), commonly known as «pink slime,» is bringing attention to some of the more unsavory aspects of the U.S. political system — public relations spin, the revolving door, and other aspects of power politics.

Since it seems pink slime comes from using every bit of carcass, and Jews and Muslims can not consume the entire animal (such as «rump» roast), would these cuts be free of it?

As you have probably heard by now, the food scandal «du jour» has to do with «pink slime», also known as mechanically - separated meat (or, when made by Beef Products Inc., «Boneless Beef Lean Trimmings»As you have probably heard by now, the food scandal «du jour» has to do with «pink slime», also known as mechanically - separated meat (or, when made by Beef Products Inc., «Boneless Beef Lean Trimmings»as mechanically - separated meat (or, when made by Beef Products Inc., «Boneless Beef Lean Trimmings»).

One person is quoted in the article referring to them as «pink slime.»

-LSB-...] in July, 2010 I wrote a post entitled «One Burger, Please, Extra Ammonia and Hold the E Coli» which detailed the now well - publicized beef product known as «pink slime.»

Bravo to Congresswoman Chellie Pingree of Maine, an early and vocal supporter of my effort to get lean, finely textured beef, commonly referred to as «pink slime» out of school food.

-LSB-...] in July, 2010 I wrote a post entitled «One Burger, Please, Extra Ammonia and Hold the E Coli» which described the now well - publicized beef product known as «pink slime.»

Bettina, just wanted to let you know that, thanks ENTIRELY to you and your petition to take pink slime (YOUR WORDS) outta school lunches, I now dread going to work — thinking «this may be my last day of work at BPI», a company I've beem proud to work for for the past 10 years; a company that has taken recycling to the utmost heights (recycling lean beef trimmings to separate out the fat and reuse the remaining protein as a suppliment to other processed meats (such as hamburger, sausage, etc) and which customers, such as McDonald's, had WILLINGLY purchased in order to stretch their purchase dollars to give us consumers more value for our buck.

Back in July, 2010 I wrote a post entitled «One Burger, Please, Extra Ammonia and Hold the E Coli» which described the now well - publicized beef product known as «pink slime.»

As I stated in another comment, I agreed with her petition in principle (I understood it to be that we should know what's in our kids» food at school), just not in her choice of the phrase «pink slime».

I want to be included in the petition so as not to add pink slime in anything we eat!

That is why McD's can label their burger as 100 % beef, when they were more like 70 % beef and 30 % nasty pink slime.

The USDA's announcement on Thursday that school districts will be able to opt out of an ammonium - hydroxide treated ground beef filler known as both Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB) and «pink slime» is not exactly inspiring confidence.

The debate over the use of so - called pink slime in ground beef, what industry refers to as lean finely textured beef, is heating up.

As you know, our Change.org petition to get pink slime out of the beef provided by USDA for school meals led to a USDA change in policy within a mere nine days.

We have power as consumers to change things simply with how we spend our money and we can voice our opinions for companies to change (like Food Babe & her «army» did with Subway & like what you did with «pink slime»).

I'm not Becky, but here is a direct quote from an earlier comment by Bettina: «Bill Marler, one of the nation's leading food safety lawyers, has publicly praised Beef Products Inc. (manufacturer of lean, finely textured beef, commonly known as «pink slime») for leading the industry with its advanced E. coli testing.

Either the CEO of this business really is a horrible person willing to use his employees as pawns in a PR game, or something else has been going on at Beef Products, Inc. that started prior to the recent «pink slime» coverage.

Filing a lawsuit on the pink slime issue while simultaneously publicizing a book on the pink slime issue strikes me as curiously unethical.

In his complaint, Mr. Smith claimed to have suffered the negligent infliction of emotional distress due to the loss of his job at BPI last May, a job loss which he alleged arose out the controversy over lean, finely textured beef (more popularly known as «pink slime»).

Back in July, many of you saw an Associated Press story which reported that «[s] everal food writers, including a New York Times reporter, have been subpoenaed by a meat producer as part of its $ 1.2 billion defamation lawsuit against ABC in regards to the network's coverage of a beef product dubbed «pink slime» by critics.»

While you are likely correct that humans don't always eat offal, we do eat the low quality bits of meat leftover after the slaughtering process in the product commonly known as «pink slime.»

And if the benefits / harms of pink slime are unknown, why are the consumers treated as guinea pigs and without awareness?

As a professional chef I am appalled that the government, especially with Mrs. Obamas healthy children agenda, will allow this over-processed, inedible, pink slime to come near our food supply.