Sentences with phrase «on pink slime»

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.

Not every small newspaper carries food news and your contribution could be the only piece on pink slime.

Grist reports on pink slime, which is possibly the grossest thing you never knew about fast food hamburgers:

We are raising our 3 grandchildren & immediately had a family conference on this pink slime garbage.

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

The next day ABC News launched a series on pink slime, and the story really took off.

Since then, the time and energy I've had to expend on pink slime has taken a real toll on my poor family (kids home for spring break, mom distracted and frazzled).

Yes, I had one of those American Meat Institute drones post the following comment on my pink slime article yesterday: «This post is really troubling because it so badly misrepresents what is involved.

Watch for my comments on the pink slime situation in the San Francisco Chronicle on Sunday.

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

I want to thank NPR for immediately rectifying the misrepresentation in reporter Allison Aubrey's March 15th report on pink slime which stated that on The Lunch Tray I compared ammonium hydroxide, used to kill pathogens in pink slime, with a cleaning agent.

His verdict on the pink slime burger:

Not exact matches

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

Hoping to avoid the fallout over the use of «pink slime» in ground beef, the American Meat Institute hosted an hour - long conference call on Thursday with representatives of Ajinomoto North America and Fibrimex, the two companies that manufacture the enzymes.

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.

Bettina Siegel blogs about food and food policy related to children over at The Lunch Tray, but you may know her better for her work on «pink slime;» in 2012, she garnered more than 258,000 signatures on a Change.org petition that led the USDA to change its policy on a low - quality ground beef product used in schools.

The petition, titled «Tell U.S.D.A. to stop using pink slime in school food,» garnered more than 200,000 signatures within nine days and prompted the U.S. Department of Agriculture to change its policy on using Lean Finely Textured Beef in the ground beef served in schools.

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.

Texas Governor Rick Perry, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback and Iowa Governor Terry Branstad — wearing hard hats, white coats and munching on hamburgers during the visit — said the bad rap on «pink slime» was an unwarranted food scare.

(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.

Indeed, I once publicly criticized Jamie Oliver, otherwise my ally against pink slime, for doing a demonstration on his Food Revolution show in -LSB-...]

Beef Products Inc, maker of the beef product that critics called pink slime, will permanently close three of its four plants on May 25 due to plummeting sales amid concerns about the ammonia - treated product, the Iowa governor's office said on Monday.

Analysis: Beleaguered beef purveyors carve out «pink slime» stain WESTERN SPRINGS, Illinois (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.

-LSB-...] has been such a public outcry against «pink slime,» (in part due to a graphic demonstration by Jamie Oliver on his Food Revolution show last summer) that fast food chains like McDonald's, Burger King -LSB-...]

The Lunch Tray Former lawyer and mom of two Bettina Elias Siegel takes on the Houston Independent School District (and 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.

After critics highlighted the product on social media websites and showed unappetizing photos on television, calling it «pink slime,» the nation's leading fast - food chains and supermarkets spurned the product, even though U.S. public health officials deem it safe to eat.

* Cites «changes in market» for its ground beef products * Lists assets of $ 219 million, debt of $ 197 million * Has secured $ 56 million in DIP financing April 2 (Reuters)- Ground beef processor AFA Foods filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday and said it plans to sell some or all of its assets, citing the impact of media coverage related to a meat filler critics have dubbed «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.

Oct 24 (Reuters)- ABC News sought on Wednesday to move to federal court a meat processor's defamation lawsuit over reports about lean finely textured beef, a product that critics have labeled «pink slime.»

* Q2 EPS 44 cents tops Wall St estimate of 39 cents / shr * Sales $ 8.27 bln miss analysts» estimate of $ 8.49 bln * Could still earn $ 2 per share in fiscal 2012 * Shares up 4 pct (Recasts, adds executive comments, updates share price) By Martinne Geller May 7 (Reuters)- Tyson Foods Inc's quarterly profit beat Wall Street estimates even after the controversy over so - called pink slime decimated U.S. beef demand, sending the meat processor's shares up 4 percent on Monday.

(Repeats for wider subscribers) * Beef Products Inc lawsuit sees $ 1.2 billion * Diane Sawyer, other individuals also sued * Lawsuit says ABC disparaged safety of a beef filler By Jonathan Stempel Sept 13 (Reuters)- ABC News was hit with a $ 1.2 billion defamation lawsuit on Thursday by a South Dakota meat processor that accused it of misleading viewers into believing that a product that critics have dubbed «pink slime» was unsafe.

Which brings us to «pink slime,» or «lean, finely textured beef,» depending on whether you have skin in the latest controversy over processed food that's all the rage in social media circles.

(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.

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..

The court fight could put modern television journalism on trial and highlight the power of language in the Internet Age: In the wake of the reports on «World News with Diane Sawyer,» the term «pink slime» went viral.

Horribly enough pink slime has ended up on our children's school lunch trays, brought to highlight by The Lunch Tray blog.

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.

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

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.

The story features my successful Change.org petition in 2012 regarding the use of lean, finely textured beef (aka «pink slime») in school food, and goes on to discuss subsequent petition campaigns on food - related issues.

But in the meantime, please do read Nancy Heuhnergarth's excellent post today on why pink slime, even if safe (and she's not conceding that point), is troubling to many Americans.

I have been busy working on my Houston Chronicle op - ed today and therefore have yet to offer on TLT the fullest explication of my views on why pink slime has no place on kids» lunch trays (or, indeed, in our food supply if without adequate labeling.)

By Martha Graybow NEW YORK, Oct 31 (Reuters)- ABC News on Wednesday asked a federal court to throw out claims it defamed a meat processor through a series of television reports about lean finely textured beef, a product that critics have dubbed «pink slime.»

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.

The meat industry argues that we ought to love pink slime because it «absolutely is the right thing» to use every available scrap on a cow carcass.

Here's the latest update on our Change.org petition seeking to remove «pink slime» from school food:

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.

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.

While I do not dismiss the recent grassroots efforts that have gained significant strength via a petition to get pink slime out of school cafeterias, I worry that the focus on it detracts from bigger and more important food system issues, and provides the meat industry with a convenient distraction and an easily fixable problem that can effortlessly be spun into a public - relations success.