Perhaps you don't understand how the USDA labeling works. If it says "Ground Beef" it's all beef but it can be from any part of the cow. You want Chuck or Sirloin, that's labeled as such.
Posted on 03/27/2012 7:01:47 PM PDT by quantim
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- The leaders of five states plan a visit to the only place where a beef product known as "pink slime" is still made, an effort aimed to support its embattled manufacturer, a company spokesman said Tuesday.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback and Texas Gov. Rick Perry will visit the one Beef Products Inc. plant that's still in operation to combat misconceptions and misinformation about the company and its "lean, finely textured beef" product, company spokesman Rich Jochum said.
They'll be joined at the South Sioux City, Neb., plant on Thursday by Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, Nebraska Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy and South Dakota Lt. Governor Matt Michels.
Dakota Dunes, S.D.-based Beef Products said Monday it is suspending operations at plants in Texas, Kansas and Iowa where it makes the low-cost beef ingredient from fatty bits of meat left over from other cuts.
The bits are heated and spun to remove most of the fat, and the lean mix then is compressed into blocks and exposed to ammonium hydroxide gas to kill bacteria such as E. coli and salmonella. The result is a product, which has been used for years and meets federal food safety standards, that is as much as 97 percent lean beef.
Critics call the product an unappetizing example of industrialized food production and dub it "pink slime."
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>>And yes, it is filler.<<
No it isn’t. It’s BEEF. It is the muscle of the cow. Not grain, not soy, not oatmeal. It’s beef. What do you think beef is? It’s the muscle of a cow.
Did you really think that the roll of beef for 1.29 was the same stuff as the Ground Chuck at 3.29? Seriously?
>>I expect it to be 100% ground chuck<<
Why in God’s name would you thing that a package that says “Ground Beef” would be “Ground Chuck”?
Don’t you read the labels? It says clearly on the label what it is.
And our politicians need the best in nutrition to function. This should be required consumption for them when they assume office.
When we buy “ground meat” we buy the big tubes. THAT is this product. It’s not a “filer”.
No, it is not.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/0327/Pink-slime-Health-crisis-or-misunderstood-meat-product
Pink slime is what critics call 'lean, finely textured beef' – a FILLER used in ground beef. It's not dangerous, but it's a byproduct that some say should be clearly labeled.
Beef Products Inc., the main manufacturer and inventor of the FILLER....(more)
If you don't mind this filler being part of your ground beef then that is great. Eat up. Enjoy. If I were starving or poor, I'd be plenty happy to eat it too. But I'm not. I can afford to be picky and I don't want anything to do with it. And guess what? Many/most consumers, once made aware of this process, don't seem too terribly thrilled with it either and are refusing to buy ground beef from stores that are using it. The result, stores increasingly not going to use it in their products.
Ever eat a hot dog?
Oh and it’s been sold since 1974. That’s decades.
Makes me glad I’m a lacto-ovo-vegetarian.
Can’t stand anything from a cow. Milk gives me diarrhea. Cheese clogs me up. Who needs cows?
Makes me glad I’m a ovo-vegetarian.
Can’t stand anything from a cow. Milk gives me diarrhea. Cheese clogs me up. Who needs cows?
Calves.
The Christian Science Monitor calls it “filler” so it’s filler? Right?
How do you fill beef with beef?
Seriously, stop passing along the hype. Eat your Grain fed beef and stop helping to put ANOTHER American company out of business.
Hope you’re rich, cause when the low priced beef eaters can’t get it any more, the price for you will skyrocket. Supply and demand, you know.
Where on earth are you shopping? I don't even think Beef Products Inc. sell this "lean, finely textured beef" as a stand alone product direct to consumers. It is a FILLER. Where are you buying this "tube" of filler that you keep referencing?
Aldi’s, Kroger (they pulled it) and Walmart.
Beef Products Inc. sells it and it’s packaged to sell in individual stores. It’s labelled “Ground Beef”.
Look, the little people need to eat too. Sorry you have never experienced the steerage section of the grocery store, but with the way this country is going, there are more of us eating this than you know.
The Christian Science Monitor calls it a FILLER because it is a FILLER.
You are wrong. You don't even understand what it is you are arguing about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime
At the end of the process, the beef is at least 90 percent lean. It is used in meat supplies across the U.S. It rarely comprises more than 25 percent of the final meat product that consumers purchase and eat
A 2008 Washington Post article suggested that the pink slime content of most beef patties containing the substance approaches 25%.
It's called a filler because it is a FILLER.
Perhaps you don't understand how the USDA labeling works. If it says "Ground Beef" it's all beef but it can be from any part of the cow. You want Chuck or Sirloin, that's labeled as such.
If it’s a filler, what is it exactly, then?
I’m confused.
When I cook a chicken, I nibble at the bones. Am I eating the filling that’s Not-Chicken?
It's a filler in those products. You weren't buying a tube of "lean, finely textured beef" product from any of those stores. You were buying ground beef with this filler added (up to around 25% or so).
OMG that Wikipedia. ABC or someone who watched their reports or any other activist who has access to the internet, fed that in.
It’s beef. Cow muscle.
>>You were buying ground beef with this filler added (up to around 25% or so). <<
Get in real close and read the label. The 25% is fat. The rest is BEEF. The parts that they couldn’t get from between the bones, the less desirable cuts and then it’s all chopped up, treated for E. Coli and packaged in those cute tubes.
It’s BEEF.
Thanks for the clarification. When I bought ground beef I usually got the ground chuck. The ground “beef” was too fatty for my taste and just didn’t seem right. It might have been the processed part of the beef I was noticing.
Probably has a bit more gelatin, not that that’s a bad thing at all. I’m sure Americans as a whole would be better off eating a little gelatin....
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