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You cant tell the difference between slime and ground beef?
I don't eat meat, and usually don't eat dairy. But to answer your question, no, and neither can you when 15% is added to ground beef.
Surely you're not referring to ground beef bought in the grocery store.
70 Percent of Ground Beef at Supermarkets Contains ‘Pink Slime’
70 Percent of Ground Beef at Supermarkets Contains 8216 Pink Slime 8217 - ABC News
Eight years ago, federal officials were struggling to remove potentially deadly E. coli from hamburgers when an entrepreneurial company from South Dakota came up with a novel idea: injecting beef with ammonia.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/us/31meat.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all&
That's an old article, but worth the read.
This is old info. After the uproar in 2012 less than 5% of ground beef has pink slime in it and thats in the pre made patties.
I had heard of pink slime but never really paid that much attention to it.
After reading up on it,it appears to be perfectly safe since all it is is pieces of lean meat,but I sure dont approve of it's use without notifying the consumer.
The big users are schools and prisons.
The Surprising Reason ‘Pink Slime’ Meat Is Back
Aug. 26, 2014
"......By May 2012, Beef Products, Inc,, the South Dakota-based inventor of the product, was on the brink of collapse—closing three of its four plants and laying off 700 employees.
What a difference two years makes.
On Aug. 18, BPI reopened one of its shuttered plants. While production is nowhere near pre-freak-out levels, when the product BPI calls “lean finely textured beef” was estimated to be in 70% of the ground beef sold in the U.S., the company has been gradually regaining business.""""
I doubt you bothered to read the article before just gabbing onto it.
Here's the most poignant bit:
Though the USDA considers the product safe for human consumption, fast food giants like McDonald’s, Burger King and Taco Bell publicly renounced it and public schools around the country stopped serving it for lunch.
The GOVERNMENT claims Pink Slime is safe. The Private Sector stopped using it because Customers didn't like it.
It's back because some customers have decided they'd rather have Beef+Pink Slime instead of no beef at all.