Sentences with phrase «pink slime from»

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.»

We choose to ban HFCS, MSG and pink slime from our house knowing when our foster kids visit their family, they won't share that parenting style.

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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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.

Only touch the real food, step away from the ones with pink slime.

The 257 - page lawsuit argues that the term «pink slime» is pejorative, preferring the phrase «finely textured lean beef» to describe a product that is essentially scraped from animal carcasses.

(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.

The term «pink slime» came from a 2002 internal email between two USDA scientists who were concerned at the time about its safety and lack of labeling.

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?

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.

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

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.

(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.

There has been a flurry of activity lately on various food issues, filling my email inbox with alerts on everything ranging from pink slime in school lunches to labeling of genetically engineered foods to ensuring that powerful Monsanto doesn't tamper with sweet corn.

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?

If that were truly the case (and I sincerely hope it's not), then we have much bigger problems than pink slime and it's proof that the industry is looking at the problems from the bottom - up, rather than the top - down.

I also wanted to share this screen from beefproducts.com own video called «Ammonia in Foods» that shows how they need to raise the pH from 6 to 11 to combat E. coli in «pink slime», 5 pH units = 100,000 fold increase in alkalinity (since it's a log scale) http://oi40.tinypic.com/2zishfk.jpg

VT FEED's Rosenbluth suggested it's an ethical decision to not buy the so - called «pink slime» ground beef from factory farms «that's really cheap, that we're competing against, that doesn't excite kids or help Vermont farmers.»

It is unavoidable that potentially prion infected wastes from high risk tissues end up on the blood - soaked slaughterhouse floors — to be incorporated into the pink slime.

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.

i'm not going to be negative, i'm just going to say this... i've seen firsthand (not being an employee, just a schmoe from the community) how the beef is processed and sent out... the picture of the «pink slime» is not accurate, it's not anywhere to be found in the BPI plant... and i followed the whole line... long before this ruckus started....

Exactly three weeks to the day after starting my Change.org petition asking USDA to remove lean, finely textured beef («LFTB,» aka, «pink slime») from the ground beef used in school food, I've decided we've reached an appropriate juncture to close the petition.

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.

Hopefully after you've had a well deserved rest from «Pink Slime» you'll comment on the other pink slime — mechanically separated chickSlime» you'll comment on the other pink slime — mechanically separated chickslime — mechanically separated chicken...

Lawmakers are demanding that the USDA stop schools from serving pink slime in lunches.

«Sure, no one has actually said the words, «died from pink slime», but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to connect the dots.»

I have never gotten so much satisfaction from the reading the news than I did when I read that our consumer power shut down the pink slime factories.

LFTB has been described as «pink slime» in numerous articles starting around 2009 — after documents from the USDA were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

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.

Pink goo, aka pink slime, is scraps of meat and connective tissue swept up from slaughterhouse floors that are doused with a pink chemical to kill dangerous pathogens — since they've been, you know, on the floor — then blended together into a substance that looks like strawberry fro - yo.

Bettina I love your work against the pink slime companies trying to hide that crap in our kids (and our own) food, for the people who don't like pink slime being labeled that think of a pr campaign where the slimer from ghost busters is green and has a heartfelt conversation with kids on how mean old bettina is trying to stop him from coming over to play at lunchtime!

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.»

Futures have tumbled from a high above 131.000 cents in late February following an uproar over pink slime, which was treated with ammonia and used in ground beef for hamburgers.

What if you have beef trimmings and residuals from a cattle which has been organically fed and certified and you treat this cattle's «organic» trimmings within a Organically certified facility (which obviously uses ammonium hydroxide), and since ammonium hydroxide is a by product and not an actual ingredient (according to our friends in USDA), it is very well possible that the meat labelled «USDA certified Organic» might also have the pink slime (or organic pink slime, if I am say).

I oppose pink slime because it comes from a highly pathogenic source, it is a cheap filler which is not «ground beef» as consumers commonly understand that term, because it is thought to be less nutritious than regular beef, and because it is widely used in our food supply without any disclosure to consumers.

But David has since been informed by USDA that the agency is not purchasing slime itself, but instead purchasing ground beef from processors which use pink slime, and the entire ground beef purchase will collectively contain 7 million pounds of the substance.

As many of you know, in March, 2012 I launched on The Lunch Tray a Change.org petition seeking to remove lean, finely textured beef («LFTB,» more widely known as «pink slime») from the ground beef procured by the USDA for the National School Lunch Program.

They've reportedly launched a web site at beefisbeef.com to help repair the public image of pink slime, although when I tried to visit the site, it requested a password from me.

Beef Products, Inc., makers of pink slime, said business has declined substantially since social media took interest, especially once concerned parents and others started trying to get the beef byproduct removed from school lunches.

Anyone who has seen those horrific images of «pink slime» from the 2008 documentary Food, Inc. will not be surprised by deShazo's discovery.

Until time and usage ameliorates «McJob» — perhaps around the time pink slime is rendered from choice cuts of Kobe beef — it will simply mean what you think it means.

As public outrage over pink slime spread last month, some companies announced they would no longer include the meat filler in their products, which are bought by fast - food restaurant chain customers that have also been backing away from pink slime.

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.