ABC news says that 70% of the ground beef sold in supermarkets contain pink slime in them. What is pink slim you may ask ? Its Beef trimmings. Some time ago they used to only use beef trimmings to feed to dogs, but now they spray it with ammonia and feel as if its safe to feed to us. They mix it in with ground beef to make it a lot of meat and sell it at a cheaper price. Im not even sure ammonia is safe for us to eat ad they spraying our food with it and mixing beef trimmings with it. This is something that should be big and clear on the front of every package sold.
Evidence #1 - http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/70-percent-of-ground-beef-at-supermarkets-contains-pink-slime/
" it is not fresh meat, its a substitute."
I have a question what does the ammonia do to the food when its sprayed on? I like how you told what pink slime was. After reading your blog I think this is nasty. Before the food get to the market or to our plates the companies put things on the food so it wont make us sick. Here a quote from my evidence to prove my thesis "So BPI cleverly started disinfecting the slime with ammonia. And convinced the FDA to allow them to list it as a "processing ingredient" so that we wouldn't know we were eating ammonia." We eat food and don't know what type of things are in it until after we eat it.
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It's scary to me to think that even the food we buy in the supermarkets aren't pure. I mean after seeing images of 'pink slime' it's sad to think that's in the food that my mother would buy to feed our family. And its even worse to me that my mother probably wouldn't even know that this is what she was feeding us. You're question about whether or not ammonia is safe for us to eat was answered in an article I read (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/04/us-food-ammonia-idUSBRE8331B420120404) '...even though U.S. public health officials deem it safe to eat..." But the problem for me and most other people isn't necessarily if the food is safe to eat but how disgusting it actually is. Anther quote from the same site says "This is not a health issue," said Bill Marler, a prominent food safety lawyer. "This is an 'I'm grossed out by this' issue." The problem is some other Americans would rather turn a blind eye to what we're actually eating, so the question arises; should the food industry label and inform us of every product used to make our food ? Or is ignorance bliss ?
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ReplyDeleteThe production of pink slime should be illegal. It's unfortunate that we trust our government to give us quality food to consume, but they try to play us and feed us slop. I say that if you wouldn't feed it to your own family, then it shouldn't be made at all. However, I think the only solution to this problem is to just become a vegetarian. Pink slime has been known about for some time now, and since no one is trying to do anything to get rid of it, we have to work around it. After you read the link below, you might decide avoiding buying chopped beef and actually buying whole meats from a meat market may be a better option.
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