Sentences with phrase «making pink slime»

The topic remained dormant until April 2011, when celebrity chef Jamie Oliver made pink slime a topic on his «Food Revolution» TV show.

Bruce Smith, the Environmental Health and Safety officer of Beef Products, Inc (BPI), the company that makes pink slime

Their skin makes a pink slime that blocks the sun.

Not exact matches

The fast - food giant hired the former co-host of Discovery Channel's MythBusters, Grant Imahara, to make a series of videos exploring the ins and outs of McDonald's suppliers and restaurants, attempting to kill stories of wormy burgers and pink slime.

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.»

Your well - known «pink slime» petition resulted in the USDA making a change to its school food policy.

-LSB-...] The pink slime controversy has made world news.

* 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.

Kraft Foods Inc said none of its Oscar Mayer beef products, including bologna and hot dogs, are made with «pink slime».

(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.

Predictably ABC News has hyped its reports by using the term «pink slime» 52 times in just a two - week span (making it harder than usual not to associate Avila's activist reporting with the word «slime» but that's another story.)

Further, whats the point in parents making lunches for their kids to protect them from adulterated meat, if the sandwiches are unknowingly being made with pink slime?

OMG — the worst possible combination just occurred to me — a Candwich made entirely of pink slime!

It's not the pink slime that makes our children fat... but we're always looking for something else to point our finger at and say that's what did it.

The move follows a storm of media hysteria spewed forth onto a public that was largely ignorant of the ingredient and its uses, let alone how it was made — and of course, the «pink slime» moniker hasn't helped.

Yet, the ammonium - hydroxide process used on pink slime just makes safer the highly pathogenic beef scraps used to make the cheap filler.

In pink slime this work is essentially done for you so it only makes sense that our bodies would digest it faster leaving you hungry again sooner.

First the industry bended rules to hide it from customers through a loop hole of the USDA labeling and now Kroger announcing this with NO intentions to make policy changes to end the use of PINK SLIME.

The meat industry is trying to make it sound like the inclusion of pink slime in ground beef somehow makes our entire ground beef supply safer.

I would also like to share: Kroger ignored its Facebook fans for 5 days, posts were made on their wall proving Kroger did indeed USE PINK SLIME while Kroger denied the use of PINK SLIME.

(Because there is no scientific proof purporting that candy and soda are good for you) Also the pink slime is made mostly from collagen — the indigestible portion of meat, found mostly in tendons and muscle fascia.

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»).

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it will give schools alternatives to ground beef made with what critics have called «pink slime.»

I hope these votes help remove the «pink slime,» however, if not, maybe it will make meat companies lable ALL ingredients and if everyone stops buying this ammonia infused meat filler «pink slim», the meat company will loose profits and have to stop selling it.

In a surreal press conference yesterday, Beef Products Inc took its best shot at making up for its silence during weeks of public lashing over what has been dubbed «pink slime,» an additive in ground beef made through a high - tech process that BPI invented.

thanks for taking the time with making your blog come to life and be a part of our lives during this pink slime controversy.

Back during the early episodes (Epi 1, I think) of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution (Season 2, in LA), Bettina criticized JO for his «demonstration» on «how «pink slime» was made».

The Burger That Shattered Her Life — Stephanie Smith (The New York Times) watch the video 38 % was from Greater Omaha meat packing plant 37 % from Lone Star, a slaughterhouse in Texas 15 % from a processor in Uruguay 10 % from Beef Products International (PINK SLIME) A study done by R.P. Clayton and K.E. Belk in 1998 concluded that a single 4 - ounce ground beef patty was made from, on average, at least 55 different animals to, at most, an average of 1082 animals.

I had just made a conscious decision to eat better overall and eat mostly vegetarian meals when I head about «pink slime» in fast food meat.

Given how the USDA and industry has been refusing to label genetically engineered foods (GMOs), which would allow consumers to make informed choices, I find it interesting that the USDA now says they are going to give schools a choice about pink slime or pink slime - free, in the interests of transparency.

For much of March and April, The Lunch Tray was dominated by the issue of «lean finely textured beef,» i.e., a beef filler made from heated and ammoniated slaughterhouse scraps and popularly referred to as «pink slime.»

Now we need USDA to work on making sure processed Chinese chicken does not end up in school lunch & hope they do a better job than with pink slime.

Further, if it is true that bologna and hot dogs are made with pink slime, then the schools should be able to choose between high grade or low grade meat products.

In October, the fast - food giant launched a transparency campaign so that they could debunk myths about their food (i.e. «pink slime») and make consumers more comfortable eating their food.

The «pink slime» of fish In April, scrape tuna — a yellowfin tuna product made by scraping meat off the bones on the back of a fish, and used in sushi, ceviche, and other fish dishes — was linked with a salmonella outbreak.

March 22, 2012 • Wal - Mart has become the latest food retailer to announce that it's making changes after listening to customer concerns about lean finely textured beef, known by detractors as «pink slime.»

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it will give schools alternatives to ground beef made with what critics have called «pink slime.»

It's specifically bad for BPI, the company who produces pink slime by «cleansing» beef trimmings with ammonium hydroxide to make it passable as human grade food.

ABC reported that 70 percent of supermarket beef contains this ammonia - treated pink slime, and that «the woman who made the decision to OK the mix is a former undersecretary of agriculture, Joann Smith.

Also, with all of the controversy surrounding its use (despite the fact that the USDA claims pink slime to be completely safe to consume even with the ammonia treatment) it would not benefit the distributors to disclose it the additive, because it would make these products harder to sell.

From what I can find, this «pink slime,» a.k.a. ammonia - treated «lean finely textured beef,» has not made its way north of the border.