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Since beef prices are going up, food processors are once again looking at cheap "lean, finely textured beef." But this time, they're preparing for consumers' concerns.
When ABC began its coverage, Beef Products Inc. was selling 5 million pounds of slime/beef/whatever every week. Then three of its four plants were forced to close, and production dropped to 1.6 ...
Of all the media outlets that have taken shots at Beef Products, Inc. and its “lean finely textured beef,” the company apparently feels slimed by only one: ABC and its ABC News division.
"Pink slime," real name lean, finely textured beef, is a meat byproduct additive that is produced by a controversial process which includes dousing the product in ammonia hydroxide in order to ...
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - School districts soon will be able to opt out of a common ammonia-treated ground beef filler critics have dubbed "pink slime." Amid a growing social media storm over so-called ...
“Pink slime,” a food additive made from spare beef trimmings that’s treated with ammonium hydroxide to kill off E. coli, salmonella and other possible bacteria, continues to rear its slimy ...
“Pink slime” or lean finely textured beef? Food defamation trial set to begin South Dakota-based Beef Products Inc. is seeking $1.9B in damages over ABC News’ 2012 reports ...
Producers of fine textured beef, once slammed as “pink slime,” report a rebound in sales after a 2012 controversy ignited a frenzy over the meat ingredient.
Beef Products Inc. told the Associated Press on Monday that it’ll ... at three of the four plants where it makes the meat product that critics have nastily taken to calling “pink slime. ...
Finely textured beef, dubbed "pink slime" by critics, is mounting a comeback as retailers seek cheaper trimmings to include in hamburger meat—just in time for Memorial Day barbecues.
Chances Are 'Pink Slime' Is In Grocery Store Beef, Too : The Salt An estimated 70 percent of the ground beef supply contains these lean bits of meat derived from muscle and connective tissue.