'Pink slime' maker suspends some plant operation
By BETSY BLANEY, Associated Press – 28 minutes ago
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — The maker of "pink slime" suspended operations Monday at all but one plant where the beef ingredient is made, acknowledging recent public uproar over the product has cost the company business.
nice ap-provided pic of said slime protruded into conservative-friendly wiener shapes.
The company last week took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal defending its product. It also launched a new website, http://beefisbeef.com , which Letch says will help dispel myths about pink slime — a term coined by a federal microbiologist grossed out by it and now widely used by critics and food activists.
BEEF IS BEEF; what more need be said? thinks back to a first-season "king of the hill" episode, "throw it awwll on the fire boys; burn is burn!"
something like that; it's been awhile since i've watched those episodes...
p.s. just one more thing. the fact that this shit is cheaper
than "old fashioned real-cut beef" - etc etc, how many permutations of this practice have found its way into swine/poultry/fisheries too - CHEAPER than the GOOD OLD REAL THING.
sorry veggies; this isn't your thread... sympathetic but raised carnivore. or at least omnivore.
anyhow, the fact that it is CHEAPER after all the "good stuff" has been taken, after extra processing, is just plain INSULTING to the purchasing public. it's PET FOOD FOR HUMANS.
DO NOT DO THAT TO US.
p.s. 2 DON'T DO THAT TO OUR PETS, EITHER.
p.s. 3 though i am opposed to just "general-purpose dumping-on-china" - doing whatever they think they should be doing at their point in history; etc etc - but we used to assume we were always doing better than china's food standards.