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Beef Products Inc. (BPI), the South Dakota-based meat processing company at the center of 2012’s “pink slime” controversy, just won a long-sought semantic victory. For years, the company has argued that its signature product is safe, wholesome, and not unlike everyday burger meat. Now, BPI has enlisted a powerful ally in its effort to recoup its image and reclassify its product: the federal government.
After a months-long evaluation, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) determined in December that BPI’s signature product—the offering famously called “pink slime” in an ABC News exposé that got the network in a lot of trouble—can be labeled “ground beef.” Legally speaking, it’s now no different from ordinary hamburger, and could even be sold directly to the public.
(Score: 5, Funny) by DannyB on Friday February 15 2019, @03:35PM (4 children)
(to the tune of Greensleeves)
Alas my love you do me wrong
To cast me off with pinkish slips
And I have loved you oh so long
To build profit in your company
Pink Slime that lovely goo
Pink Slime with growth of mold anew
Pink Slime I could keep it down
And digest it into some lovely poo
I have been ready at your hand
To sell Pink Slime at your command
I've feigned to like that horrid goup
And pretend that I didn't need to puke
Pink Slime was my delight
Each bite I ate with a horrid fright
Pink Slime what a horrid blight
It would turn my stomach in the night
Universal health care is so complex that only 32 of 33 developed nations have found a way to make it work.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday February 15 2019, @03:38PM (3 children)
Just for clarification I put this into the public domain, or if copyright is mandatory in any jurisdiction, grant anyone a perpetual copyright license permission to use it in any possible way without permission from me or any compensation to me of any kind.
Universal health care is so complex that only 32 of 33 developed nations have found a way to make it work.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @03:54PM (2 children)
Thank you for putting this into the public domain, but the public now politely asks that you please take it back and dispose of it properly.
(Score: 3, Touché) by DannyB on Friday February 15 2019, @05:11PM (1 child)
If the Pink Slime is ended, I'll recant.
Universal health care is so complex that only 32 of 33 developed nations have found a way to make it work.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @06:21PM
In this political climate it is probably safer to decant instead.
: to draw off without disturbing the sediment or the lower layers