good question.

If i have no choice, i would eat it & not worry about it. I eat mcnuggets, i eat candy, i eat things that are definitely just as garbage as low grade ground beef.

if pink slime is sitting next to a porterhouse at the market, then my choice is clear. But my choice would be based on preference, not the fake fearmongering coming from the critics.

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seems like fear of the unknown. one issue is that things tend not to be regulated until its too late. ephedra, for example. A lot of people dropped dead before the govt cared, & even then it took a major league pitcher dropping dead to get the FDA to ban it.

There's a famous hot dog & hamburger joint in Hollywood called Pink's. The media frenzy about pink slime can't be good for their business.

I just ate a full bag of Oreo cookies......and that white slime was delicious!

cheap meat is a LIE! YOU all pay for it in many ways ... by subsiding farmers growing corn (which is used to feed the MOOO creatures - corn is UNNATURAL food for 'em!) ... by eating meat from unhealthy cattle (ecoli 137 comes to mind) ... by paying the doc to help yer obese kids ... and so on and on ... it is NOT CHEAP! :2 cents:

Beef Products Inc. Comeback: It's Not 'Pink Slime'; It's Safe, Nutritious and 'It's Beef'

Beef Products Inc., maker of the ground beef filler USDA scientists nicknamed "pink slime," plans to launch a consumer education program aimed to restore confidence in the product it calls lean finely textured beef and the process it uses to sanitize and separate beef from meat scraps formerly used in pet food and cooking oil.

Story here...

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/beef-...2#.T3Kb9d03xy0

http://campusprogress.org/campus_fil...nk%20slime.jpg



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I too found myself disappointed by the thread title

That's cute. You're one of those people who think Whole Foods is any different.

My ex used to work there. Majority of the shit is delivered by the same suppliers who then goes to the grocery store across the street to make the same exact delivery. Only difference is the grocery store will sell it for less.

Whole Foods is very good at carrying a few good things and bringing attention to them.

Like they do with their "local farm" stuff. They'll order one pallet of vegetables from a local farm and then hang a sign that tricks consumers into believing it is the entire vegetable section. The rest of the stuff is the same fruits and vegetables bought from the same large corporate suppliers that you buy for less at a regular grocery store.

Most of the shit is the same as anywhere else. People become so fanatical about Whole Foods that they rarely go anywhere else to see how its really not all that different.

Marketing that is so good even seemingly smart people fall for it.

Even the manufacturers got smart and figured that you can sell the same shit with different packaging for stores like Whole Food and charge more. They used to manufacture brand and generic. Now they do brand, generic and premium. All the same stuff, just different packaging and price points.

that shit has be used for decades, only reason anyone even knows about it now is because of the sensational media lately... there always has to be some drama, some made up problem to solve...

people make it sound like it's some deadly stuff because it's animal guts washed in ammonia... ammonia sounds bad, but it's really just a naturally occurring compound floating around in our blood...

it's perfectly good meat, that they just happen to sterilize with an evil sounding "ammonia"...

In some countries they just come right out and offer cow stomach and tripe on the menus. All of the intestines and organ meat.
We love to play games with it and pretend it's not there. Grind up a chicken thigh and leg in a vitamix blender (bone in, skin on) and you'll get.. a nugget, lol. Yums.