Sentences with phrase «using pink slime»

The companies that are no longer using pink slime are:

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.

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.

Kroger told both ABC News and its customers it did NOT use PINK SLIME.

Today Kroger came clean telling their Facebook fans Kroger does use PINK SLIME.

And the intrepid reporter who originally broke this story, David Knowles of The Daily, had a new report today on the degree to which school districts do or do not use pink slime.

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.

I'd like to know if Sonic Drive - Ins use pink slime.

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Meanwhile, ABC's attorney argued that the «pink slime» reports brought light to the fact that BPI and other ground beef producers had been using an mostly - unknown beef product that most shoppers and customers were unaware they were eating.

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.

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.

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

* 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.

«We have never used lean finely textured beef (pink slime) because it doesn't meet our high quality standards,» Wendy's spokesman Bob Bertini told Reuters.

(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.

Predictably ABC News has hyped its reports by using the term «pink slime» 52 times in just a two - week span (making it harder than usual not to associate Avila's activist reporting with the word «slime» but that's another story.)

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.

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.

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.

Odd that Family Circle didn't even mention this monumental accomplishment, only that you successfully used name - calling tactics («pink slime!»)

The move follows a storm of media hysteria spewed forth onto a public that was largely ignorant of the ingredient and its uses, let alone how it was made — and of course, the «pink slime» moniker hasn't helped.

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.

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

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.

Thank you for a very enlightening piece re using meat parts (mis - named «pink slime,» an adolescent phrase if ever there was).

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?

Choosing to use words like «pink slime» in a government petition were, in my opinion, lies (and the phrase «pink slime» IS hateful (also my opinion).

But I thought it was worth updating you on the progress of our petition seeking to end the use of Beef Products Inc.'s Lean Beef Trimmings (aka «pink slime») in the National School Lunch Program.

There 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 and Taco Bell have agreed to stop using it in their food.

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.

Only three weeks after launching my Change.org petition asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to stop the use of so - called «pink slime» (or lean, finely textured beef — «LFTB») in ground beef destined for school food, we've seen some truly extraordinary changes take place.

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.

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.

Either the CEO of this business really is a horrible person willing to use his employees as pawns in a PR game, or something else has been going on at Beef Products, Inc. that started prior to the recent «pink slime» coverage.

And, had ABC News in particular, not used the erroneous term «pink slime» so many many times in their «coverage» of LFTB, IN MY OPINION, it would NOT have been «all over the media.»

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.

If this pink slime is 100 % beef then why must it be mixed with other beef as a filler and not used as beef itself.

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.

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.

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).

Zirnstein had used the term «pink slime» in a 2002 email to coworkers after touring a Beef Products plant.

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.»

But as a few readers informed me yesterday, that pink slime is actually mechanically separated chicken (the sort used in some nuggets) and not the beef by - product we've been talking about.

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.

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.

I also heard that pink slime is used in deli meats.

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.

The «pink slime» of fish In April, scrape tuna — a yellowfin tuna product made by scraping meat off the bones on the back of a fish, and used in sushi, ceviche, and other fish dishes — was linked with a salmonella outbreak.

The ammonia used in pink slime isn't listed on any ingredient labels because it's considered a «processing agent» even though it's completely misleading to think that it doesn't end up in the final product.