Fast-food chains like McDonaldâs and Taco Bell have recently dropped the âpink slimeâ from their beef â but schools across the country are still serving it, The Daily reported. The term âpink slimeâ was first coined in 2002 by Food Safety Inspection Service microbiologist Gerald Zirnstein, who toured a Beef Products Inc. production facility. Zirnstein later emailed his colleagues and told them he did not âconsider the stuff to be ground beef,â according to the online news site. Pink slime is a mix of ground-up connective tissue and beef scraps that are normally meant for dog food. BPIâs Lean Beef Trimmings are then treated with ammonia hydroxide to kill salmonella and E. coli, and mixed into ground beef or hamburger. âWe originally called it soylent pink,â Carl Custer, another microbiologist with the Food Safety Inspection Service, told The Daily. âWe looked at the product, and we objected to it because it used connective tissue instead of muscle. It was simply not nutrionally equivalent (to ground beef). My main objection was that it was not meat.â When Custer expressed his concerns about pink slime, the USDA said it was safe. However, in 2005, it limited the amount of ammonia-treated LBT in one serving of ground beef to 15 percent. But by the way it is packaged â youâd never know whether itâs in there, or how much. (Pink slime is in about 70% of all grocery store ground beef.) âScientists in D.C. were pressured to approve this stuff with minimal safety approval,â Zirnstein said in The Daily. Zirnstein and Custer said pink slime is âa high-risk product,â so they wrote their own report, looking at the safety of it. This year, the USDA has plans to purchase 7 million pounds of Lean Beef Trimmings for the national school lunch program. The USDA considers itself to âmeet the highest standard for food safety,â according to its statement. âTheyâve taken a processed product, without labeling it, and added it to raw ground beef,â Zirnstein said. âScience is the truth, and pink slime at this point in time is a fraudulent lie.â BPI did not respond to an inquiry for comment from The Daily. http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/...ps-hidden-in-your-kids-lunch/?intcmp=features
Well okay but I have a problem with a microbiologist that doesn't know connective tissue is a part of a muscle or "meat". Maybe he meant protein, but then again I'd expect a microbiologist to be able to differentiate protein and collagen when discussing the issue too.
I was watching this report while eating breakfast, Slimey eggs, probably pink slime in the sausage, I don't think the potatoes were fucked up but, drank some genetically enhanced well hung homo milk. ewe....
I guess I should have posted the story on the amount of cow puss in a glass of milk, too. Yuk!!!! I think I'm going to skip dinner tonight. I'm not hungry any more.
Thanks for helping me choose what I want for supper. That will be a bloody rare steak for me. (hold the slime please)
Connective tissue is stuff like tendons. It's not meat. It may be safe to eat (after you've added enough ammonia hydroxide - yum!) but it's not meat.
I'm sorry but I'm not the one who is confused here. I was specifically commenting on the glaring factual error highlighted in red by this so called expert.
I don't know about you guys but I take offense that my package of hamburger doesn't list ammonia hydroxide nor connective tissues. I've seen "meat" before it's ground into hamburger and it doesn't include that 'extra' stuff.