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Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef'

posted by chromas on Friday February 15 2019, @03:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the squash-the-beef dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

https://newfoodeconomy.org/bpi-pink-slime-ground-beef-usda-reclassifed/

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.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Friday February 15 2019, @03:42PM (3 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 15 2019, @03:42PM (#801573) Journal

    Growing our own food is better. Free Range Soylent Green is better than the kind grown in "for profit" prisons.

    (obviously I have little faith in the future of humanity coexisting with global mega corporations are people too)

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  • (Score: 2) by stretch611 on Saturday February 16 2019, @04:34AM (2 children)

    by stretch611 (6199) on Saturday February 16 2019, @04:34AM (#801929)

    So, you plan to eat your own kids?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @06:02AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @06:02AM (#801956)

      Grow your own / Eat your own.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Saturday February 16 2019, @10:14PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 16 2019, @10:14PM (#802202) Journal

      Kids: not just for unlimited free agricultural labor anymore!

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