Good reason to give up ground beef-Pink Slime filler in burgers
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I remember joking around in high school about how the taco meat was 1 grade above dog food. I didn't realize how close I was to the truth. It was actually the same grade.
After reading this and a factory worker who quit in disgust after seeing what they are putting in ground beef:
Pink slime,” a cheap meat filler, is in 70 percent of the ground beef sold at supermarkets and up to 25 percent of each American hamburger patty, by some estimates.
“It kind of looks like play dough,” said Kit Foshee, who was a corporate quality assurance manager at Beef Products Inc., the company that makes pink slime. “It’s pink and frozen, it’s not what the typical person would consider meat.”
As seen in the movie Food Inc., the low-grade trimmings come from the most contaminated parts of the cow and were once only used in dog food and cooking oil. But because of BPI’s treatment of the trimmings — simmering them in low heat, separating fat and tissue using a centrifuge and spraying them with ammonia gas to kill germs — the United States Department of Agriculture says it’s safe to eat.
Be nice.
I had to put one of my nannies down about an hour ago.
RIP, Calamity.
She was a good girl.
I'm sorry to hear that.
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