Sentences with phrase «lean beef trimmings»

The savvy folks at Disinformation pointed us to a report from Argus Leader about how several fast food companies, under consumer pressure, are ditching the ammoniated boneless lean beef trimmings.

Made by grinding together connective tissue and beef scraps normally destined for dog food and rendering, BPI's Lean Beef Trimmings are then treated with ammonia hydroxide, a process that kills pathogens such as salmonella and E. coli.

Back when we talked about «pink slime,» or ammoniated boneless lean beef trimmings, it caused quite a stir.

The Daily says pink slime, or what the USDA is calling «lean beef trimmings,» was ushered through with «minimal safety approval,» and the product is «high risk.»

I believe the «Lean Beef Trimmings» we're talking about look like this.

In his original post on The Daily, David Knowles reported that «USDA... plans to buy 7 million pounds of Lean Beef Trimmings from BPI in the coming months for the national school lunch program,» and I and other media outlets shared the same information, i.e., that a purchase of slime per se was in the works.

The beef industry is pushing back hard in the last few days against opposition to Lean Beef Trimmings, better known as «pink slime.»

Parents freaked out after reports surfaced last week that school districts around the country were serving kids hamburgers containing up to 15 percent of the processed product known in the meat industry as «Lean Finely Textured Beef» or «Lean Beef Trimmings,» produced by Beef Products Inc..

For the first time, USDA is offering schools a choice of pre-made patties which contain Lean Beef Trimmings, and bulk beef without it.

By now you have seen and heard about the outcry from parents and students around the country to ban «finely textured lean beef trimmings» or more commonly «pink slime» from school lunches.

the USDA ruled that Lean Beef Trimmings were safe.

But I thought it was worth updating you on the progress of our petition seeking to end the use of Beef Products Inc.'s Lean Beef Trimmings (aka «pink slime») in the National School Lunch Program.

What happens is: Boneless lean beef trimmings receive a puff of ammonia to eliminate bacteria safely and effectively.

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.

Lunch Tray readers following the astonishing progress of the Change.org petition launched here last week to get «Boneless Lean Beef Trimmings» (BLBT) out of school food (175,000 at present count) will hardly be surprised that the beef industry has started to come out swinging.

Parents and other consumers are voicing loud opposition to the unlabeled use of Lean Beef Trimmings in ground beef, and schools and stores around the country are obviously listening and changing their practices.

Last night I was interviewed for the lead story on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, in which Senior National Correspondent Jim Avila reported that several major grocery chains will discontinue the sale of ground beef containing Lean Beef Trimmings.

I spoke this morning with Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree's office and was pleased to learn that she has now submitted her sign - on letter to USDA with the signatures of 41 Congressional representatives, all of whom support the request expressed in our Change.org petition that USDA ban all use of Lean Beef Trimmings, aka «pink slime» in ground beef destined for the National School Lunch Program.

The lean beef trimmings from Beef Products Inc. are at the center of a national debate.

(Repeating story from earlier Monday) * Prices of lean beef trimmings soar * Meat processors race to find LFTB replacement * Loss of «pink slime» fuels imports of lean beef trimmings By Michael Hirtzer and P.J. Huffstutter WESTERN SPRINGS, Illinois, May 14 (Reuters)- Behind the glass meat counter at Casey's Market in a Chicago suburb, the butchers pick up their blades and carry on a generations - old tradition.

There has been a lot of misinformation swirling around the Internet and on TV about lean beef trim produced by Beef Products, Inc..

Not exact matches

«As a byproduct of our cut trimming operation, we offer fresh beef trimmings in a variety of fat - to - lean ratios to meet our customers» specifications.»

Food inspection technology, featuring DEXA, provides a non-invasive and highly - accurate inline method of measuring the chemical lean (CL) of meat trimmings and ground beef.

I did use a very nice cut of Angus beef that was very lean with most of the fat trimmed at my local butcher.

Ingredients 1 1/3 pounds good - quality ground beef (85 percent lean) 1 tablespoon whole grain mustard 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil 3/4 teaspoon salt freshly ground black pepper 1 large red onion, trimmed and cut into 1 / 2 - inch thick slices 4 burger buns, preferable brioche buns — but use whatever you like, halved 4 thick slices sharp white cheddar Condiments: mayo, mustard, ketchup, sliced pickles

Generally, lean boneless roasts, such as short - loin, rib eye and round will normally give four 3 - ounce portions of cooked, trimmed beef for each pound.

«Lean, finely textured meat» made from beef trimmings is often added to ground beef as a cheap filler

BPI is the largest U.S. producer of lean finely textured beef, a low - fat product made from chunks of beef including trimmings, and exposed to tiny bursts of ammonium hydroxide to kill E. coli bacteria and other contaminants.

A: Pink slime is the pejorative term for «lean finely textured beef,» a product designed to recover useful bits from carcass 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»).

Regular ground beef is made from trimmings that are 70 % and higher lean beef and 30 % and lower fat.

While I am TOTALLY with you on Pink Slime a.k.a. «Beef Lean Trimmings,» that picture is of chicken ground up, bones and all, to make chicken nuggets.

A decade later, BPI was the first to commercially sell lean finely textured ground beef using a technique of his devising that separated the meat from fatty trimmings.

The two also went at it about whether the trimmings used by BPI for it's LFTB product — which are 70 percent fat — are more dangerous than more lean trimmings used by other beef processors.

Lean Trimmed Red Meat: one of the reasons why it's so important eat red meat is because it is so high in nutrients, and in fact beef has higher concentrations of protein and creatine than many other foods.

Lean, grass - fed beef with all visible fat trimmed (such as flank steak, chuck steak, or top sirloin steak).

The industry calls the trimmings Lean Finely Textured Beef.

March 15, 2012 • The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it believes beef trimmings known officially as «Lean Finely Textured Beef» are safe to beef trimmings known officially as «Lean Finely Textured Beef» are safe to Beef» are safe to eat.