Grocery Stores Pulling 'Pink Slime'
Grocery store chains have recently spoken out on their ground beef standards. Some are pulling the lean finely textured beef, others never carried it.
Nationally, there has been wildfire around grocery stores that carry Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB) after a former United States Department of Agriculture scientist said that 70 percent “of the ground beef we buy at the supermarket contains something he calls 'pink slime,'" according to an ABC report. LFTB, the hot topic of late, is "waste" meat and fat that is often ground and turned into processed meat products or combined with higher quality meat to make low-fat ground beef. Because beef trim is often filled with E. Coli and salmonella, it's treated with ammonium hydroxide, creating "pink slime," a term coined by some scientists who claim the resulting product "isn't really beef." Grocery stores are now rolling out releases making …
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Isle D Belle
9:49 am on Wednesday, March 28, 2012
This change in retailers' policies has come about because of consumers making their voices heard. This is just the beginning. Let's take responsibiliity for what is available in our grocery stores and let manufacturers, distributors and retailers know what we will not tolerate in our food. How about we talk about antibiotics and growth hormones in beef and poultry next? more ›