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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   
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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• They should have called it They should have called it (Score: 5, Funny) by Arik on Friday February 15 2019, @03:59PM (5 children)

  by Arik (4543) on Friday February 15 2019, @03:59PM (#801598) Journal

  They should have called it "Soylent Pink."
  
  

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• Re:They should have called it (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @04:21PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @04:21PM (#801621)

  ^I thought that was something else.

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• Re:They should have called it Re:They should have called it (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday February 15 2019, @05:14PM (3 children)

  by DannyB (5839) on Friday February 15 2019, @05:14PM (#801661) Journal

  Modded Funny. But actually, in a way, insightful. That might have been a better name to refer to it by.

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  • Re:They should have called it Re:They should have called it (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @06:10PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @06:10PM (#801692)

    They found a better name: Ground Beef ;)

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    • Re:They should have called it Re:They should have called it (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @06:32PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @06:32PM (#801704)

      As in "beef better thrown on the ground"

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      • Re:They should have called it (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @07:41PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @07:41PM (#801739)

        so I threw it ON THE GROUND

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