Sentences with phrase «pink slime in»

Call or email the superintendent of your school district and let them know you'd rather not have pink slime in your child's lunch.

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

Restores my faith in this country a bit that at least people can get behind not wanting pink slime in their food... hopefully this will also open the door for educating people on the other scary additives that are all over the place without our knowledge

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.

... I knew I'd seen it before (on Fooducate, back in» 09) and I erroneously recalled that it was the same pink slime in question.

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.

I agree with you to some extent, but as the originator of the Change.org petition against pink slime in school food, I did want to share my thoughts as well.

I for one want labeling of some kind so I can buy meat that has no pink slime in it.

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

She realized that USDA had not abandoned pink slime in school lunches.

The debate over the use of so - called pink slime in ground beef, what industry refers to as lean finely textured beef, is heating up.

I want to be included in the petition so as not to add pink slime in anything we eat!

Her campaign to end pink slime in kids» school food was inspiring.

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.

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.

And now, just a day after the one - year anniversary of the launch of my «pink slime in school food» petition, it's... [Continue reading]

Dana Woldow of PEACHSF had an interesting piece in Beyond Chron last week about reactions in San Francisco to pink slime in school food.

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.

Not exact matches

The fast - food chain is tackling rumors about pink slime, McRibs and horse meat with the help of former «MythBusters» co-host Grant Imahara, in a new ad campaign.

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.

I also learned why their hamburgers don't rot (not enough moisture, so they just dry out), whether there's any «pink slime» in the beef (not here in Canada, it's not legal), and whether you can ask them to blend a fruit pie into your McFlurry (short answer: no).

The settlement, worth at least $ 177 million, came after South Dakota - based Beef Products sued Disney - owned ABC for $ 5.7 billion over a series of reports about «pink slime» in 2012.

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Meanwhile, a manufacturer of pink slime, Lubbock, Texas - based Beef Products Inc., created a response website called beefisbeef.com to offer «truth and reality» to its product as well as took out a full - page ad in The Wall Street Journal defending itself.

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.

Earlier this year, public outcry erupted over the use of ammonia - treated beef that critics called «pink slime» in ground beef.

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.

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

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.

The term «pink slime» was in fact initially coined by a U.S. Department of Agriculture official Moss met who had seen the «bright pink, aqueous» stuff in a plant.

And don't think for a minute there is not more «pink slime» bits & bobs waiting to be discovered in the school & hospital cafeteria.

Sept 13 (Reuters)- Walt Disney Co: * Abc news sued by beef products inc over alleged defamation in «pink slime» coverage * Abc news, a unit of Walt Disney Co says lawsuit is without merit, and that it will contest it vigorously

BPI claimed that ABC harmed its reputation and cost sales by mischaracterizing its «lean finely textured beef» as «pink slime» in reports aired in March and April 2012.

Other defendants include a former Agriculture Department microbiologist said to have coined «pink slime» in a 2002 email.

Other defendants in the case include a former Agriculture Department microbiologist credited with coining the term «pink slime» in a 2002 email to colleagues.

Lawyers for ABC countered in court papers that the lawsuit was a meritless attempt to inhibit free speech, and that the «pink slime» term was the kind of «hyperbolic» language that courts routinely protect under the First Amendment.

(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-...]

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.

«They called it «pink slime,» and we're in the communications age where things just fly.

Last month when a furor erupted over a beef product opponents dubbed «pink slime» being served in schools and fast - food restaurants, Chicago Public Schools officials quickly assured the public that «none of our food contains any of this substance.»

-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-...]

McDonald's and other companies, for example, stopped using ammonium hydroxide, sometimes called «pink slime,» in burger patties in February.

The «pink slime» controversy has touched a nerve in the school food community and underscored how little parents know about what their children eat at school, said Kate Adamick, a noted school food consultant and author.

BPI contends that ABC falsely and repeatedly characterized the product as an unsafe and unsavory «pink slime» in an effort «to incite and inflame consumers» against it.

* 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 food policy news just keeps sliding in like so much pink slime.

The nation's second - largest hamburger chain is the latest company to join the public relations war over so - called «pink slime» — an ammonia - treated beef filler product that the meat industry calls «finely textured beef» — that is at the center of one of the biggest U.S. food fights in recent history.