Ewwww! I never even heard of this until today!

Safeway, America’s second largest supermarket chain, has announced it will no longer sell what the meat industry calls “lean finely textured beef” and the public has come to ca...pink slime.”

Safeway says in a statement “considerable consumer concern” led to its decision even though the chain believes its beef with the controversial filler in it is safe

“Safeway is committed to providing our customers with the highest-quality products,” the company said in a statement. “While the USDA and food industry experts agree that lean finely textured beef is safe and wholesome, recent news stories have caused considerable consumer concern about this product. Safeway will no longer purchase ground beef containing lean finely textured beef.”

Makers of “lean finely textured beef” and the USDA say that it is not an additive and need not be labeled, and is safe to eat. But critics, including former USDA scientists, contend the ammonia treated “pink slime” — made from low quality scraps once used for dog food and cooking oil — is less nutritious than pure ground beef.

“It’s not fresh ground beef. It’s a cheap substitute being added in,” microbiologist Gerald Zirnstein said.

Seventy percent of all store bought ground beef contained “pink slime,” but since ABC News exposed its widespread use many grocery stores have told shoppers their meat counters are free of the mixture.

The USDA announced last week that it will disclose to school districts which of its suppliers use pink slime so administrators can decide whether to purchase it.

Safeway has 1400 stores coast to coast, second only to Kroger. The chain now joins Publix, HEB, Whole Foods and Costco promising their ground beef is additive free.

http://abcnews.go.com/blo...ured-beef/

How much you wanna bet meat prices are about to go through the roof?

Thank goodness, as if we need to turn people into Frankenstein while eating all of those additives and chemicals. I'm by no means a saint when it comes to eating healthy but it's a damn shame to know what CEO's would do to save a dollar.

well gee,

it's not really food, is it?

Hey, I like pink slimed ground beef!

ewwwwwww!!

noimageatall said:

when i first saw this. I thought.....................

who the hell needs a rubber dildo This Long

UncleGrandpa said:

Thank goodness, as if we need to turn people into Frankenstein while eating all of those additives and chemicals. I'm by no means a saint when it comes to eating healthy but it's a damn shame to know what CEO's would do to save a dollar.

All the fast food chains probably use it!!

Where's McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, Carls Jr-What is their stand on the subject? You can almost guarantee that those dollar items contain that pink slim.

I bet all the fast food chains including applebees, dennys, olive garden-use pink slim when using hamburger meat. Only they know if they do.

Does anyone else wonder if restaraunts and frozen dinners use "meat glue" in their meat cuts? It should be law that if they use meat glue that it must state it on the product label. You can bet if it's cheap it probably contains pink slim or meat glue.

Meat glue can be used with fish, chicken, and red meat.

kewlschool said:

All the fast food chains probably use it!!

Where's McDonalds...?

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.c...ain=vitals

They shouldn't have been selling it in the first place. I swear some folks in this country ain't got brain cells.

Timmy84 said:

They shouldn't have been selling it in the first place. I swear some folks in this country ain't got brain cells.

Because we eat pink shit that makes us brain-dead.

NOMNOMNOM

noimageatall said:

Timmy84 said:

They shouldn't have been selling it in the first place. I swear some folks in this country ain't got brain cells.

Because we eat pink shit that makes us brain-dead.

Eh it's possible if you ate McDonalds for the majority of your childhoods lol

Timmy84 said:

noimageatall said:

Because we eat pink shit that makes us brain-dead.

Eh it's possible if you ate McDonalds for the majority of your childhoods lol

It's a miracle we can think at all. We eat anything if it 'looks' good.

I really do not understand when people eat fast food. I used to eat fast food on the semi-regular. I mean, I was never afraid of grabbin' a burger and fries if I was in a rush. Now? I'd rather go hungry. It's crap food. Literally, its just soggy crappy mess.

I would rather an Orger come to my house so I can cook them a homemade meal than know they eat fast food.

cammi said:

ewwwwwww!!

i'm was just rememberin all the times

that i had made burgers at home

and i thought that was blood congealin

on it, i bet before the wide spread of

it there were places that got more of

it, then they just got greedy,

now the greed has hit again and they'll

boost prices on real meat (to stay competitive)

and start injectin it with somethin new.

we're just ginneypigs, even if you don't

eat meat...