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

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: 2) by looorg on Friday February 15 2019, @09:25PM (1 child)

    by looorg (578) on Friday February 15 2019, @09:25PM (#801777)

    Tyson’s beef trim is ferried over from the kill floor to BPI’s plant by conveyor, where it’s warmed to about 100 degrees and sent through a centrifuge that separates the fat from the meat. The liquified fat can then be sold as tallow, while the resulting meat—which the industry has called “lean finely textured beef,” or “boneless beef trimmings” in the past—is nearly fatless.

    "Pink Slime", ok that sounds yummy. I think I would rather buy pet-food and eat that. They at least have standards about what they put in those cans.

    This just isn't ground beef, it's something they add to ground beef. So if they add something to something it can't be the same thing as it was before. This isn't homepathic beef, or is it? Did it become more beef then before due to the beef dilution?

    Just call it something else and make sure the public knows and that they can choose between products while actually knowing what they are buying, if it's all so great and customers won't mind then there really is no problem.

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  • (Score: 2) by Username on Friday February 15 2019, @11:38PM

    by Username (4557) on Friday February 15 2019, @11:38PM (#801834)

    I think I would rather buy pet-food and eat that. They at least have standards about what they put in those cans.

    It all comes from the same place. The dog food is the meat that hit the ground. It's scooped up with a shovel (with the blood water that is usually present on the floor), put into a bin, then ran through a metal detector, emptied into a larger bin that gets loaded onto a machine that process and cans it for dogs.