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I'm a vegetarian. I'd encourage everyone who has the resources and knowledge to sustain a healthy meat-free diet to become a vegetarian, too.
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I'm a vegetarian. I'd encourage everyone who has the resources and knowledge to sustain a healthy meat-free diet to become a vegetarian, too.
However, there's lots of ways to still eat meat (yes, I'm a non-meat eater about to say this). Buy organic, local, grain-fed, free-range beef. Actually TALK to your farmers and know that your meat lived a happy life. Make sure they're humanely killed and properly handled after death. Go to your local farms and meet the people who are going to raise your food. Maybe, if you have the resources, raise your own meat.
But, yeah- I agree. Pink slime is gross. It shouldn't be allowed to exist.
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Ya know, potatoes are grown with cow poop.
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Ya know, potatoes are grown with cow poop.
Soy extender is in almost all processed meats.
Nothing is sterile but the inside of an egg.
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You've eaten it already, probably several times. Quit freaking out. Yes, it's gross, and yes you should avoid it.
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You've eaten it already, probably several times. Quit freaking out. Yes, it's gross, and yes you should avoid it.
What you need to understand is that meat isn't the problem. Don't veg out if you don't have to or really want to. Just find more reputable sources for meat. Sustainable pasture farming isn't ever going to take off if people don't actually buy pastured meat. The reason garbage like pink slime ends up in food is because people will buy it.
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A March 7, 2012, ABC News investigative report characterizing processed beef trimmings as "pink slime" indicated 70% of ground beef sold in U.S. supermarkets contained processed beef trimmings, and the USDA had allowed it to go unlabeled over the objection of a few of its own scientists.[4] The report precipitated a widespread consumer backlash against the product. Numerous supermarket chains discontinued sale of products incorporating processed beef trimmings following the backlash, including Stop & Shop, Publix, Costco, Safeway, H-E-B, and SuperValu.[16] After parents insisted the additive be removed from public schools, the USDA indicated that it would give school districts the option of choosing ground beef containing processed beef trimmings or unadulterated beef with a higher level of fat.[17][18]
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A March 7, 2012, ABC News investigative report characterizing processed beef trimmings as "pink slime" indicated 70% of ground beef sold in U.S. supermarkets contained processed beef trimmings, and the USDA had allowed it to go unlabeled over the objection of a few of its own scientists.[4] The report precipitated a widespread consumer backlash against the product. Numerous supermarket chains discontinued sale of products incorporating processed beef trimmings following the backlash, including Stop & Shop, Publix, Costco, Safeway, H-E-B, and SuperValu.[16] After parents insisted the additive be removed from public schools, the USDA indicated that it would give school districts the option of choosing ground beef containing processed beef trimmings or unadulterated beef with a higher level of fat.[17][18]
In March 2012, Beef Products, Inc. announced it would be suspending operations at three of its four plants which produce processed beef trimmings.[19] The three plants produced a total of about 900,000 pounds of the product per day.[20] Following the suspension of operations at the plants, Governors Rick Perry of Texas, Sam Brownback of Kansas, and Terry Branstad of Iowa toured the South Sioux City, Nebraska plant with Lieutenant Governors Rick Sheehy of Nebraska and Matt Michels of South Dakota in a show of support.[21] Branstad said, "They've been a victim of a smear campaign, and I think we need to do all we can to try to counter this."[22]
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when buying processed meats, I wonder if anybody ever asks "what the heck is "by-products"? really. what /is/ bologna and hotdogs? how can this be a big surprise?
I can pretty much promise you that ground beef is not the /only/ meat containing "by-products"
does it seem at all significant to anybody that the governors of the states who are protesting happen to be located in the same state as BPI plants? makes me say..hmmm
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I saw a UK story on this the other day - this type of mechanically recovered meat has been outlawed in Europe since the BSE crisis - 1996
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