Sentences with phrase «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 wanted to address the claim of pink slime being nutritionally equivalent.

This report on pink slime will bring you up to speed on the development of pink slime, the controversy, and potential effects of the additive.

Meanwhile, David Knowles, the writer at The Daily who originally reported on USDA's continued use of pink slime in school food, interviewed me yesterday about the petition.

It is unclear whether the USDA and meat distributors will ever agree to mark the presence of pink slime on meat packages for several reasons.

So what will the USDA do with that 7 million pounds of pink slime when schools opt out?

Unpleasantly chewy bits of what I can only describe as gristle, though they were not visible, seemed to stud the meat of the pink slime burger.

Some people will have never heard of pink slime before they read about it on McDonald's own website.

Allison — Normally I'd write a much longer answer but since I'm in the middle of this pink slime petition campaign, let me point you to one of the best resources on the Internet for people getting started in trying to improve school food on a local level.

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

Hy - Vee (in Iowa) just announced yesterday they are ceasing use of pink slime due to customer concerns.

According to the business press, meat packers are likely to lose a record $ 101 per head as a result of the pink slime crisis.

«the actual existence of pink slime — in and of itself — is not something I find offensive.

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

We already knew the pink slime option was cheaper — that's the whole point of pink slime — but now there might be an even greater cost differential for schools if they need to expend their own funds on labor to convert bulk beef to patties.

Was the picture of pink slime sensationalized?

The social origins and downfall of pink slime was the subject of Wednesday's Chicago Tribune story.

Further, for the usda not having on the label on the packages of ground beef that state what percentage of the product is «finely texturized» or «additionally processed», is a down right attempt to conceal the use of this pink slime product a secret.

Now I'm pretty sure that those consistencies are the result of the percentage of pink slime in the packages.

The New York Times recounts the history of pink slime and reminds us that Michael Moss won a won a Pulitzer Prize for an article in which he mentions it in 2010.

You have the bedside manner of pink slime.

The USDA is planning on purchasing 7 million pounds of the pink slime from BPI for our country's wonderful school lunch program and says it totally «meet [s] the highest standard for food safety.»

Last week, Jessi Stafford reported on the prevalence of pink slime in school lunches.

One reason is that the USDA considers the addition of pink slime a «process» not an ingredient.

I'm not explicitly supporting the use of pink slime in school lunches or anywhere else for that matter, before I do I would have to see rigorous scientific proof (from someone other than the FDA or its benefactors) that this stuff can not cause harm to human health to degrees greater than consumption of regular meat.

It was a call that led to hundreds of millions of dollars for Beef Products Inc., the makers of pink slime,» wrote ABC.

While my petition focused on the use of pink slime in school food, I feel strongly that the media firestorm we created and the overwhelming response to the petition was animated by another concern as well: many Americans were learning for the first time about this substance and the fact that it's in, reportedly, 70 % of our ground beef without any sort of labeling for those who wish to avoid it.

The story was uplifting, a nice antidote to the constant reports of industrial ag gone wrong, of pink slime and herbicide - resistant super-weeds.

Food Safety News was kind enough to reprint my refutation of the beef industry's defenses of pink slime, and leading food safety lawyer Bill Marler also weighed in in his own post yesterday, supporting disclosure of pink slime on labels.

Can't believe any sane person would defend the use of pink slime or any other such crap by any self - respecting business or govt.

While I think many people like yourself try to rationalize and justify the use of pink slime, the «real crime» here is not that pink slime was developed but concealed and disguised by a federal department.

But we can't because the power of the federal government, ie usda, continues to defend the use of pink slime.