Posted on 03/29/2012 6:33:52 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
Hy-Vee Inc., after being pressured by Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, announced Wednesday that its stores would continue to offer ground beef containing a controversial ground beef additive.
Producers call it "lean, finely textured beef," but it has become widely known as "pink slime."
Hy-Vee's announcement, revealed during a Wednesday afternoon press conference in Des Moines with Branstad and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, marks a quick reversal of the Iowa-based chain's stance last week to join several other grocery chains and drop products containing the additive.
"The governor called and expressed his concern," Ruth Comer, a Hy-Vee spokeswoman said in an interview. "We were already looking at what we might do to take care of customers, and the governor's voice certainly did factor into the feedback we were already receiving."
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They may call it lean textured beef, but who knows what the hell it is..
Hey, Navy! Do you know what this soylent green consists of?
I thought it was vegetables added to the beef to satisfy the veg-heads.
Why would a Governor do something like that? Does he have stock in pink slime?
“I don’t KNOW what’s in it - just shut up and eat your slime”
The triumph of raw emotion over reason.
ALL Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, ND, SD, MO, Southern MN, Western IL politicians are “Bought and Paid For” my “Big Ethonal(sp?) and “Big FOOD”.
Lots of packing houses in Iowa. IBP is based in Iowa.
And this is a non issue really. If you think this is bad, never see sausage being made.
About 10 years ago, I stopped liking drive-through hamburgers as much as I once did.
All of them. Carl’s Junior (Hardees I think elsewhere). McDonalds. BK. Even Wendy’s, which once seemed wonderful.
They just didn’t taste the same ... none were ever truly delicious any more. I still like them ok. Wendy’s can pull off pretty good burgers. In ‘n Out can put together a tasty sandwich. But not even they, taste like what you could cook in the backyard.
Why is that?
I wonder if all of them, changed to including the pink slime?
That and meat “extenders”. Soy products mostly. Otherwise you wouldn’t be able to eat off the dollar menu.
Big Ethonol needs to go away. We need to stop subsidizing it and stop mandating it in the gas.
Whoever thought of the name ‘pink slime’ is a genius.
Could anything sound nastier?
But, it’s probably no worse than a lot of stuff we eat.
I asked for it at the grocery store, but they were out.
You know, I bet you’re right.
That would explain the “Angus” marketing.
None of the places want to say they’re offering special burgers which aren’t using meat extenders, so they say “100% Angus Beef” - to avoid saying: “these are the burgers without soy products and other extenders like we use in everything else”.
That’s gotta be it. And explains why the various Angus burgers are expensive.
Thanks.
Of course they don’t taste like ‘backyard burgers.’ But what’s in your backyard burgers? Do you really know.
Better just shut up and eat.
My wife buys range fed eggs, not cheap but when we go back to the store bought, quality doesn't seem to be there. Whether real or in our minds, don't know but she keeps buying the expensive eggs.
Actually it’s what’s referred to in the industry as “Bader meat”. It’s perfectly good and wholesome in it’s content and derivation.
A machine called a Bader or similar machine removes the remaining meat on the bones that cannot be removed by hand. It’s more finely textured because of the process that the machine uses (high pressure) to remove the remaining meat. A small percentage is added to regular ground product so that the texture is basically unchanged.
Frankly, this is much ado about nothing.
Agree.
I’ve been in the meat business for 30 years pal and I know what I’m talking about.
BTW you have been reported to the admin moderators.
Ask your butcher. Back during one of the tainted beef scares, the wife asked what’s what with the ground beef. Turned out we had it backwards. The stuff that looked like it was prepackaged was actually ground on premises.
This is reminiscent of ‘You don’t want to see them make sausage’ group.
It does prove how easy it is to ‘panic’ a group though.
Lets start calling coffee “Black Urine”, make it official and let all the ‘newscasters’ talk about it nightly.
Kind of like years back some one on the local news (DC area) kind of threw in (as a gag) a comment of an impending ‘toilet paper shortage’.
In less than a week, there was a toilet paper shortage as all the lemmings ran off and started scoffing up all the toilet paper they could find.
BTW, being a ‘Westpac Warrior’ back in the 50’s and 60’s no telling what kind of goodies the natives were selling us on the street corners or even what the USN was using to ‘stretch’ the commisary dollar and we ALL have pet names for different things.
When someone says “This tastes like $hI-”, I just reply, “having never (knowingly) eaten $hI-, I can not comment”.
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