How about they get rid of it all together except for maybe in animal feed. And NOT FOR COWS TO EAT!

I don't need or want Mad Cow Disease!!!

You know the only thing that tastes worse than school beef with pink slime? School beef without pink slime. Anybody out there care to guess what the worst tasting meat is? Meat with no fat. Don't believe me, just ask your butcher. Pink slime is just an imaginary term made up by people with too little education and too much desire to force their opinion down their neighbors throat (for their own good of course). And of course one can't expect a district or school board to actually take a leadership position promoting their education as justifying their leadership position against any loud community member who gets upset at public meetings when their stated ignorance isn't automatically met with applause by 101% of the attendees.

Not to fear, beef byproducts can be had anywhere outside of school cafeterias, including most likely your home. In fact, tasty and edible food can be food anywhere outside of school cafeterias, exclusively outside. Don't believe me, ask your kids.

The real truth is, people that are upset by the food chain, just never understood the food chain. It's not a pretty thing, but it's always been there and always will be. Truth is just something most people can't swallow. Too bad because it's the healthiest thing you can injest.

rrobeson:

Then YOU EAT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

@rrobeson

You know the only thing that tastes worse than school beef with pink slime? School beef without pink slime. Anybody out there care to guess what the worst tasting meat is? Meat with no fat.

Perhaps you need to re-read the article.

The USDA recently announced that, in response to requests from school districts nationwide, it will offer schools a choice: 95 percent lean beef patties made with the filler, or less lean bulk ground beef without it.

In other words, the alternative "less lean bulk ground beef without [pink slime]" will have more fat. So according to your argument, it should taste better, not worse.

Amazing that people actually had to complain for this to happen. I'll never understand why liberals place so much trust in government.

rrobeson - Are you seriously defending the use of this product? First of all, you evidently didn't read the article...

Anybody out there care to guess what the worst tasting meat is? Meat with no fat.

From the article:

The low-cost filler is made from fatty meat scraps that are heated to remove most of the fat

And your take on ignorance of the food prep industry:

The real truth is, people that are upset by the food chain, just never understood the food chain.

Actually, people weren't upset about it until it made the news and they understood it better!

Finally, let's take a look at the places that use this product: fast food and school cafeterias. By your logic, these places would have delicious food:

Not to fear, beef byproducts can be had anywhere outside of school cafeterias, including most likely your home. In fact, tasty and edible food can be food anywhere outside of school cafeterias, exclusively outside.

If your idea of tasty food is fast food and school cafeterias, you need to stay away from a career as either a chef or food critic.

The truth is that this whole blow up over "pink slime" is more about perception than fact. There is absolutely nothing wrong with these meat scraps, they are still nothing more than bits of beef. They are just removed from the bone by a different method to get the meat that cannot be removed easily with a knife in order to maximize the use of the animal that is killed. As for the ammonium hydroxide that is used to treat these scraps, this is common practice with far more products than just these meat scraps, this same treatment is used to kill potential pathogens in chicken, pork, and many other products. If you eat and type of sausage or hot dog I can pretty much guarantee that the meat in them was treated in this way. There is yet to be a single valid claim of any harm resulting from the use of this "pink slime" product. This whole thing is more about the news media and the sensationalizing of a perfectly safe product due to it's unusual appearance than any hard science showing a problem with the product. There is absolutely nothing wrong with eating ground beef that has had this product mixed in, which is what we are actually talking about. No ground beef contains more than 15% of this product and I guarantee that if you have purchased regular ground beef at the supermarket you have been eating this product with no ill effects.

There's no science that says eating snails will kill you, either. I think eating snails is gross and won't eat them. So yes, it's all about perception. But in case you all didn't get the memo, perception is reality!

Any of you defenders of Pink Slime eat snails? Why not? It's perfectly safe!

Are they going to replace it with hot dogs? Worse. It is only the name "pink slime" which is a industry slang term that has fueled this silly hysteria. "Finely textured ground beef" is the real name, and nobody would notice that. This is just a processed meat product, no worse than any other, and better than a lot. People can be so obtuse.

rroberson ,"Too bad because it's the healthiest thing you can injest."

Really? Pink slime is the healthiest thing on the planet for humans to consume? Are you insane? Seriously? I mean why'd I go to college and get a degree in Human Nutrition when all I needed to do was ask you?

When I asked my professor what was the one food he would want to have if he was stuck on a island with nothing else to eat and guess what he DIDN'T say? PINK SLIME. The food he did say would sustain him longest was sunflower seeds.

Pink Slime creates conservatives, that is how this evil alien race of pod people take over human bodies. Newt and his reptilian wife both admitted that they love pink slime burgers.

REFUSE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE LIE, don't eat pink slime or GMO's, if nothing else you will at least smell better.

@zupercram

Any of you defenders of Pink Slime eat snails? Why not? It's perfectly safe!

Why not? If you're going to ask a question you've got to give people a chance to answer. I've eaten them, I've also eaten crickets, grasshoppers and a whole host of other things that you're to prissy to eat.

For me the issue here is about waste. I actually kill a lot of the things I eat and have FAR too much respect for the life of an animal to throw some of it away because I think I'm too good to eat anything but the choicest of cuts. All of you crybabies sound like a bunch of spoiled brats to me. Do you have your mommies cut it up for you too? Only eat off a silver spoon?

@zupercram

Finally, let's take a look at the places that use this product: fast food and school cafeterias. By your logic, these places would have delicious food:

Actually it's found in 70% of the ground beef sold and has been for years. Please don't assess the "logic" used by other people, you're not qualified to comment on anything related to logic.

I say get all the processed crap out of our food and give us real food. If I buy raw meat - that's what I want to receive - raw meat. Watch the obesity and allergies drop if we can only get back to REAL food.

Blugh as repulsive as it looks, I guess I've been eating this stuff for most of, if not all of, my life and never once had an ill effect that can definitely be pinned on 'pink slime'.

It sounds disgusting but when you take into consideration all the gross things that end up in food that we don't know about (bugs, pubic hair, etc), the slime doesn't seem so bad to me

@jrae-1215199

I say get all the processed crap out of our food and give us real food. If I buy raw meat - that's what I want to receive - raw meat

A- LFTB is raw meat

B- Any ground meat would be considered "processed"

So if you want what you would call "real food", no one is going to give it to you, you're going to have to do some of the work yourself. But I'm guessing you don't really want that either do you?

Why? To waste a nutritious food source? This whole hysteria started over a slang name. It is no worse than hot dogs, or other processed meat products.

I don't buy them, either.

Yeah, just switch to Soylent Green!

I've heard rumors about this "Soylent Green". Though isn't it just process meat product? [/sarcasm for those with bad reception]

The problem is that you can't tell what grade of meat you're using due to the fact that everything is combined together. That and that fact that prior to the implementation of this method those scraps that are being used were traditionally sold to dog food and food oil companies. When it's all combined you're not getting "select", "choice" or "prime", but some mishmash which includes scraps too.

The problem is that you want your kids lunch to be free, then complain that you didn't get what your kid deserves.

As I said, it should be clearly labeled "Pink Slime" or any other recognizable term. But in regards to the scraps being used as dog food, ummm, you should investigate hot dog and bologna meat. I guess we could ban Hot Dogs too.

@rrobeson, you couldnt have said it better.

Fact is, we all wish we could feed our kids and ourselves the best foods possible. The goal of food manufacturers has always been to make a more affordable product for the consumer. I would love Free Range beef and Fresh From the Farm Organic vegetables, but thats not practical on most peoples budgets. Free Range and Organic products are more expensive because they take more land to grow.

Too often we Americans have knee jerk reactions to stories like the Pink Slime scandal and make rules, laws and decisions that actually hurt us in the end. So, instead of 95% lean beef, the New York schools will feed their students fattier beef. (makes sense). Or, we could do away with all beef products and feed them Hot Dogs.

I hope my point is understood

Four : S(crap meat is mostly crap meat. People should go to jail for this including the FDA (Food and Death Admin). Greedy people will literately poison their customers for an extra buck.

@FourtwentyLove

The problem is that you can't tell what grade of meat you're using due to the fact that everything is combined together

That applies to ALL ground beef. The problem is that people don't know what the hell they're talking about.

That and that fact that prior to the implementation of this method those scraps that are being used were traditionally sold to dog food and food oil companies.

Why? Do you even know? Because they had no way to separate the fat from the meat without rendering it off, in other words cooking it. Obviously you can't mix cooked beef with raw. Not many uses for little precooked bits of beef is there? They were sold to use in dog food so that NOTHING GOES TO WASTE.

When it's all combined you're not getting "select", "choice" or "prime", but some mishmash which includes scraps too.

Huh? All of this meat comes from plants that are processing beef for human consumption. That means it's ALL select, choice or prime. Scrapes from a piece of choice beef is still choice beef. It's grade doesn't somehow change after it's been trimmed off a primal cut.

McDonald's was one of the first companies to stop using it, actually.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/31/10282876-mcdonalds-drops-use-of-gooey-ammonia-based-pink-slime-in-hamburger-meat

Calm down. Have yourself a hot dog and a coke!

Willis Who had free lunch We couldnt afford lunch so we made it at home and brought it. You complain way too much.

Go veggie...just, you know, make sure you take supplements to get all the nutrients you need that aren't available in a vegetarian/vegan diet. And we all know how well regulated the vitamin/supplement industry is!!!

making burgers is not that hard to do...stop buying the other stuff...homemade burgers are better tasting anyway & you know what's in them too !

Mostly. You still have the steroids, growth hormones, antibiotics, unless you buy organic beef directly from the rancher.

Oh, do shut-up. It isn't stupidity - it's dishonesty about our food.

I guarantee by the "quality" of the people defending it that the corporation that makes pink slime is owned and operated by a conservative republican.

I have seen this garbage up close and personal prior to it being cooked, it is pink slime very similar in look, smell, and feel to emulsified ammonia nitrate that I used to blast through granite under the mountains near Berthod Pass. I have seen how they make it and I have seen what they make it out ot. It is nothing but waste turned into profit.

I don't care what any of you industry trolls say, I wont eat it. I haven't eaten it or any other processed meat in over 30 years. if you are stupid enough to feed it to your children then go for it, from the looks of things there is going to be a very large surplus of it very soon.

One thing I know for sure if the conservatives are defending it then it must be poison, they love everything plastic, polluting, toxic and evil.

There are over 10,000 freelance "writers" online, a good portion of them are peddling lies for one toxic product or another. No one in their right mind would defend the use of this product in school lunches unless they had an ulterior motive or were just plain stupid.

@deprogrammer

I have seen this garbage up close and personal prior to it being cooked

Ok, now you're just friggin lying. In another thread you said-

"I have been on a no-pink slime diet for 30 years and am doing great, I grow my own food with aquaponics . I buy nothing processed, nothng that isnt organic"- #1.10

But now you're claiming to have seen a product that isn't available to the public? Either you are full of @!$%# or your dad mixes the stuff with his " orgainically feed(sic) cattle". Which is it? Liar or hypocrite? I already know you're a hypocrite so no surprise what my guess is but I'll give you a chance to answer the question. Of course you'll probably just ignore me again, that's what people usually do when their BS gets called out.

And I've got to say, as friggin hilarious as your posts generally are, nothing is more funny than your ridiculous screen name. You've been so well programmed you are FAR beyond help LOL!

Whatsa sheeple!?

Whatsa sheeple!?

A term commonly used on Newsvine years ago. The only ones still using it are the new sheeple, but they're not smart enough to recognize it.

@Here. Can you speak this?

The "meat scraps" in question are actually a pulp, pounded from the bone of old, rotting carcasses.

BULL SH!T, If you're just going to make crap up why bother commenting at all?

@Illinois man

Backcountry164

Crickets and grasshoppers? Isn't that what people ate in 40,000BC?

I have no idea what people ate that long ago but there are still many parts of the world where those things are a critical source of protien.

@bubbling

The power of posting online

"The change follows an online campaign by advocates for healthier food to rid school cafeterias of what the meat industry calls "lean, finely textured beef," "

More like the ignorance of posting on-line. The blind parrots and sheeple will believe pretty much anything and everything they're told despite having the ability to look for facts themselves using the very same resource that fed them the BS to begin with. The picture of "pink slime" commonly found in connection with this debate is actually goop used to make chicken nuggets, a school lunch staple. I can gaurantee that the LFTB is FAR heathier than "chicken" nuggets but look at which one is being removed from the cafetria. Mass stupidity at its finest.