On Mar 17, 5:00*am, PolicySpy > wrote:
> Yeah, there is a filler used in ground beef and it's being called Pink
> Slime. It's made from pieces of beef that would ordinarily be thrown
> away but they heat it, spin off the fat, and treat it for bacteria.
> Then the filler is actually a lean product. Of course the problem is
> that it's a processed meat product and not a cut.
>
> One source says that 40% of hamburgers contain the Pink Slime while
> another source says that 60% of the ground beef at the supermarket
> contains Pink Slime.
>
> The odd thing is that the Pink Slime is lean and therefor is used to
> make the ground beef leaner. So it could be in any ground beef grind
> of any fat content.
>
> Actually, I've been having trouble with the quality of ground beef
> from a major supermarket. Price is no object and I have tried store-
> brand ground chuck, store-brand ground round, store-brand ground
> sirloin, and store-brand 85% Angus. But any of these can have issues
> of gristle to spit out. I've just been waiting for the government to
> catch the obvious problem and make the headlines.
>
> Of course I suspect two things that I've mentioned in the past. As
> investors cheer companies on the stock market that move to higher
> profit margin business practices, consumers are then fooled into
> higher prices or lower quality. The other suspect is simply an often
> unarticulated but prevelant business practice of establishing a market
> brand and then reducing quality. So let's articulate it and call it
> EMRQ or possibly EBRQ .
>
> Now this is the American hamburger and an election year, so to get rid
> of the Pink Slime who do you vote for ?
>
> Well, I don't know so let's concentrate on the good ground beef.
> Ground beef that says "vegetarian diet", "no hormones", "no
> antibiotics", "no additives", and/or "no fillers" is probably without
> Pink Slime. Also, ground beef that says "organic" is highly regulated
> for the use of that terminology and should be without Pink Slime.
> However, organic beef could be free ranging grass feed or grain feed
> and I think grain feed is more like what the average person is used to.

Pink Slime is called "Boneless Lean Beef Trimmings" or "Finely
Textured Lean Beef" or "Finely Textured Beef" or "Lean Finely Textured
Beef".

It's made from beef near the hide and that's why it needs to be
treated for bacteria with ammonium hydroxide.

Also, it tends to be made from connective tissue. So it's lean but not
as high in protein.

And there are some similar highly processed beef fillers that just
don't need the treatment for bacteria.