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would you like some amonia with your ground beef? by kevinbarry at 3/10/2012 7:59:43 PM McDonalds and Taco Bell said they do not even use this stuff but millions of pounds of ground beef have this "pink slime" blended in and used in school lunch programs - just so these beef distributors can make more money off of beef waste that used to be used in dog food and cat food. Maybe that is why our pets want some of our table food. Also, some of your local grocers are buying this pink slime in "pink brick" squares that they blend in their ground beef before they sell it to you packaged together. Mmmm Mmmmm Good, right? The lady in our government who approved this "pink slime" for human consumption left her job to sit on the board of the company making the "slime" and she has made over $1 million dollars over the past 10 years! I only posted this to bring the Pink Slime to everyone's attention. THIS IS NOT a political football - both parties are trying to cut the budget and neither party is complaining about the slime in Congress. value="http://www.youtube.com/v/avkFUBzHSw8?version=3&hl=en_US">

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bluerosemama	3/10/2012 8:03:03 PM How do I find out if my grocery store does this???
george1965	3/10/2012 8:04:20 PM
kevinbarry	3/10/2012 8:08:30 PM regarding your grocery chain, here is a video tht discusses major chains like Giant, Safeway, Walmart, Costco, etc. I apologize, but the embedding was turned off but I got the youtube link that you can use to view it yourself. If anyone else can figure out how to post it in a way for someone to click on it, please post somewhere below. Thanks. http://youtu.be/n71i2we5z20
kevinbarry	3/10/2012 8:13:44 PM In a nutshell, years ago, the scraps they used to either throw away or box up for pet food companies are now "cleaned" with some kind of amonia product and then shaped into "bricks" and sold to many grocery chains and when they make their own ground beef, they put these "bricks" in the blender and "voila" out comes hamburger. The USDA still considers it beef, even though it used to be throw away scraps but now is "pink slime" bricks that are added back to the grocers ground beef. Personally, it scares me that this waste is "washed" with amonia because it was scraped up off the floor and needed a little spring cleaning to make it edible.
61falcon online now!	3/10/2012 8:13:54 PM ABC news with Diane Sawyer has had a feature on this 3 nights this week.It has been in our food chain since 2002 and in wide use!!
ruggedmarine	3/11/2012 7:31:33 AM Respectfully Kevin and while it has been awhile since I worked in large beef processing plants once it hit the floor inspectors made us toss it. We were watched very closely and never ever allowed to scrape the floors and reuse any trimming as USDA guys where watching closely. Trimmings were put in tubs that were still on moving lines and processed in and never was amonia added. This comes from guy who was right inside so that's my smeal
luckylouie42	3/11/2012 10:55:41 AM in the usa, we may have some questionable products in our food, I don't know. What scares me is , what is in the food products we receive from china, and mexico.
lkavour92	3/11/2012 5:25:53 PM Whether this stuff is harmful or not is not even the question...Just the thought of it is gross....and the fact that in NC some beaurocrat took a little girls lunch away from her that her mom had made(turkey sand) and replaced it with a USDA lunch with the excuse that "Moms" lunch was not healthy enough! I DO enjoy a grilled burger but I don't know if I can manage to get past that picutre of that stuff...Yeewww!
lkavour92	3/11/2012 5:28:25 PM @ Harry, When I lived in Live Oak fl, I worked very briefly at a huge chicken processing plant there and we dropped chicken parts all the time, they would pick them up off the floor and wash them off with a bleach solution and then we would see them come back through the line.....
christineone	3/11/2012 7:01:44 PM Hello Kevin.thanks for sharing this right after i purchased a three pound pack for burgers and a nice meatloaf from walmart.
letusing	3/11/2012 7:23:02 PM Hay big K pink slime I glade I took the time to read this knowledge is power thanks so much for opening our eyes Love! have a sweet one, sing
kevinbarry	3/13/2012 5:41:38 PM glad everyone found it interesting. Harry, I am sure some plants take what hits the floor to the dog food or cat food plants, but others are not so ethical. also, there are even companies that do one thing when the inspectors are around and then do another when it benefits them. As far as China and others, Lucky, we need to keep our own companies honest first. I buy very little, in food, from China, the orient in general, and South America, and when I do I usually read up on it first. Believe me, Lucky, our own companies, including big agra, are more worried about their stock price and profits than the customers that eat what they make. Christine, I am sorry about the timing of the blog - I have noticed that your cheeks are pinker than usual though. That pink slime is becomming on you.
tingtru	3/23/2012 10:44:39 AM Since I'm a vegetarian, "pink slime" is not part of my diet! I do think that our nation is waking up though to some of the apparent health risks of what we may or may not be eating. At one time, we didn't seem to question "food safety" and imo trustingly purhcased and ate what the grocery stores sold. We innocently believed I think that the food manufacturers/processors always had our best interests at heart. IMO, there has been a relatively big gap between anything which may be considered as exposing some questionable practices of our "food production." Upton Sinclair wrote about the slaughterhouses of Chicago in "The Jungle" and that book came out in the early 1900s! The movie "Fast Food Nation" was an eye opener for many of us and unbelievably that movie hit the screen almost a hundred years later! In part, too, we as a nation have moved away from small family farms. Farming is now big business and is part of corporate America.