Posted on 08/12/2014 6:08:48 PM PDT by markomalley
Beef Products Inc will reopen a Kansas processing plant on Monday to boost production of "lean finely textured beef," which critics call "pink slime," as wholesale beef prices soar with a shrinking U.S. cattle herd.The reopening of the Garden City, Kansas, plant comes more than two years after it was shuttered following a national media controversy about the BPI product.
The plant will collect raw chunks of meat and fat beef trimmings from a neighboring Tyson Foods (TSN.N) slaughterhouse, package them into large bins, and then ship the refrigerated containers to BPI's processing facility in Dakota City, Nebraska, BPI said on Tuesday.
The company aims to hire 40 to 45 people for the Kansas plant, which had more than 230 employees prior to its closure.
BPI is the leading maker of the low-fat product made from chunks of beef, including trimmings, and exposed to tiny bursts of ammonium hydroxide to kill E. coli and other dangerous contaminants.
And until the spring of 2012, the company had four state-of-the art plants, more than 1,300 employees and was expanding aggressively. Few Americans realized the product was a mainstay of fast-food burgers, school lunch tacos and homemade meatloaf.
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So like I said guys: government environmental regulations (Ethanol after all was a mandate caused by a law Congress passed).
Repeal that sh^7.
BPI is independent of Tyson foods, which bought IBP. BPI however is physically located near the Tyson plants because that is the source of the ingredients.
There was a disastrous freeze last fall with the loss of 100,000 cattle.
Yummy, yummy!
Soon, we will be at the store picking out our favorite “meat product.” “Mystery meat” as we know it.
If things go the way they are, we will be lucky to buy it in shapes like ribs, chicken parts, ribeye and other real meat we have today.
I really can’t wait until we have soylent green and red.
Just sitting here at the keyboard licking my chops.
OOOOOh
So its like near-beer, only beef. Beef with no beef in it. Very clever.
I live about 140 miles NNE of Garden City. The pink slime production plant is only made feasible by employing illegals from Mexico, and maybe Central America.
They also provide lots of work for lawyers by committing lots of crimes.
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