Sentences with phrase «pink slime out»

Other ways to keep pink slime out of local schools might be to attend a meeting of the local school board and voice your opinion.

You'll recall that Senator Menendez was the first federal elected official who stepped up to the plate and supported our efforts to get pink slime out of school food.

As you know, our Change.org petition to get pink slime out of the beef provided by USDA for school meals led to a USDA change in policy within a mere nine days.

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.

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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).

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.

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.

Beef Products Inc., maker of lean, finely textured beef (aka LFTB and commonly referred to as «pink slime») has announced this morning that it is filing a state court defamation lawsuit against ABC News arising out of the network's coverage of the... [Continue reading]

(@QueenofWein, the Twitter handle for a PR person at the American Meat Institute, and others are now out there tweeting «reassuring» facts and articles about pink slime, information I'd very much like to address.)

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.»

Beef Products Inc. has given itself 60 days to sort out its «pink slime» PR disaster.

Since BPI and Gov. Perry are having such a hard time trying to figure out what to label pink slime, I suggest one of the following, which are far more truthful and descriptive than LFTB: «Contains up to 15 % of:» Ammonia treated beef Ammonia disinfected beef Mechanically separated beef Advanced Meat Recovery beef

Bravo to Congresswoman Chellie Pingree of Maine, an early and vocal supporter of my effort to get lean, finely textured beef, commonly referred to as «pink slime» out of school food.

Bettina, just wanted to let you know that, thanks ENTIRELY to you and your petition to take pink slime (YOUR WORDS) outta school lunches, I now dread going to work — thinking «this may be my last day of work at BPI», a company I've beem proud to work for for the past 10 years; a company that has taken recycling to the utmost heights (recycling lean beef trimmings to separate out the fat and reuse the remaining protein as a suppliment to other processed meats (such as hamburger, sausage, etc) and which customers, such as McDonald's, had WILLINGLY purchased in order to stretch their purchase dollars to give us consumers more value for our buck.

The USDA's announcement on Thursday that school districts will be able to opt out of an ammonium - hydroxide treated ground beef filler known as both Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB) and «pink slime» is not exactly inspiring confidence.

Bettina KEEPS calling it «pink slime» — keeping the incorrect term out there for it to settle in the subconscious minds of uninvormed viewers.

The USDA recently announced that they would allow school districts to «opt out» of purchasing beef containing pink slime.

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....

yep but she picked what post to except right so she used the ones that feed her crusade thats how she help promote the pink slime myth with out getting the facts.

She and I will meet this month to map out a plan to engage the scientists at UNICEF to expose the many dynamics involved with nutrient damage — similar to what I spoke about on the other thread regarding pink slime.

A second lawsuit arising out of the «pink slime» controversy continues, however.

In his complaint, Mr. Smith claimed to have suffered the negligent infliction of emotional distress due to the loss of his job at BPI last May, a job loss which he alleged arose out the controversy over lean, finely textured beef (more popularly known as «pink slime»).

With reference to the beef byproduct (aka pink slime) specifically, have you considered that cutting it out will encourage people to eat less meat all around?

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

On Tuesday futures tumbled the daily 3 - cent trading limit after news of the discovery of the disease in the carcass of a California dairy cow caused investors to bail out of a market already battered by demand fears after the consumer uproar over a filler beef known by critics as «pink slime.»

She said in her report that on my blog The Lunch Tray I «pointed out that it's [pink slime] treated with ammonia, something [I] use as a cleaning agent.»

Oh dear lord, when will someone figure out how to market pork (or spotted owl)- based pink meat goo as «the OTHER other pink slime»?

Since the USDA is giving school districts the ability to opt out of buying pink slime, we can do something about it.