Entry#9: Pink Slime!!!

          With this blog post, I will be discussing about "Pink Slime" and what it is generally and how it affected McDonald's way of business.  So Pink Slime, we have been hearing about it for the longest time, more often than others but its out there and how McDonald's is putting it in their products!  I personally do not eat at McDonald's because I like Jack In The Box better and I have never really been a big fan of them.  I don't really worry about it personally... but, I try to not to fixate on the matter but I know its just disgusting.  I remember hearing about this "pink slime" my freshman year of high school and it just disgusted me to where I would not go there even if it was for dinner that night, I would not eat it.  since then, I have eaten there mabye 4 times and I still am not comfortable going there and don't think I ever will.  No matter how many "healthy" commercials they air, I will not be comfortable with that fast food chain.

"Pink Slime" ( A dysphemism for lean finely textrued beef or LFTB, finely textrued beef and boneless lean beef trimmings or BLBT)  is a meat- based product used as a food additive to ground beef and beef- based processed meats, as a filler to to reduce the overall fact content of ground beef.  In the production process, heat and centrifuges remove the fat form the meat in beef trimming.  The resulting product is exposed to ammonia gas or citric acid to kill bacteria.  In 2001, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved the product for limited human consumption.  In March 2012, an ABC News series about "pink slime: included claims that approximately 70 percent of ground beef sold in U.S. supermarkets contained the additive at that time.  Some companies and organizations stopped offering ground beef with the product.  "Pink slime" was claimed by some originally to have been used as pet food and cooking oil and later approved for public comsumption, but this was disputed in April 2012 by both the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) administrator responsible for approving the product and Beef Products, Inc. (BPI) the largest U.S. producer of the additive.  In September 2012, BPI filed a lawsuit against American Broadcasting Company for false claims about the product.  Some consumer advocacy groups have promoted the elimination of the product or for mandatory disclosure of additives in beef, while others have expressed concerns about plant closures that occurred after the product received significant news media coverage. 

I believe that this whole thing with the "pink slime" is just ridiculous because of the way these people are processing the beef.  It has proven dangerous to the consumer over the years and that it could cause illness amoung the average consumer.  

This concludes my post about the Pink Slime let me know what you thought about it!