Re: Pink slime found in 70% of supermarket ground beef in ABC investigation

This is your second "Pink Slime article in two days. You have posted
the same tired facts that were posted first by myself a few days ago
and then by travis... neither of your articles added anything to the
subject and are repetitious of themselves; they are therefore
SPAM !!!!

Next time....back on moderation.

On Mar 11, 12:02 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Pink slime found in 70% of supermarket ground beef in ABC investigation
>
> Huffington Post
> 3/8/12
>
> The price of beef has risen dramatically in recent months and years.
> That's led many consumers to shift away from steaks and towards
> cheaper hamburgers and meatloaves when they've had a hankering for
> cow. But record highs mean that even ground beef is getting pricier.
> What's a supermarket, looking to keep the price of ground beef
> competitive, to do? Use the cheapest possible kind of ground beef: the
> much-reviled "pink slime."
>
> According to a recent "ABC World News" report from Jim Avila, 70% of
> ground beef sold in supermarkets contains the ammonia-treated sludge,
> which is the the product of a method for salvaging meat scraps from
> otherwise unusable parts of a carcass.
>
> Avila was tipped off to the startling figure by a whistleblower at the
> USDA -- who says he has quit his job out of disgust with the product.
>
> The level of usage is consistent with a 2009 report on pink slime by
> the New York Times. The paper wrote that "a majority" of ground beef
> in America contained the substance, which is manufactured by a company
> called Beef Products, Inc.
>
> Since then, fast food companies have discontinued their use of the
> product en masse. Pink slime is still in the mix of the ground beef
> used in school lunches, however.
>
> If you want to avoid pink slime altogether, then, and don't want to
> eat at McDonald's, you may have to buy your own meat grinder. Or stop
> eating hamburgers.
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy

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