This is getting way out of hand!!

I just had a discussion on this very thing just a few days ago. The story I saw on the news said that even some commercial meat companies are using it. Some ones like the one I shop at most wouldn't say one way or the other. You know what that means. And I was apauled at the fact that after some ledigation about a year ago with a law firm and Taco Bell. TB swore up and down they did have any addivtives in their beef. Well I have a link on my discussion that shows that TB is one of the ones that is using this additive. Liars!

That is really disgusting. I would start eating turkey burgers. Turkey burgers are healthier and taste better than hamburgers. Have a wonderful day!

Being a vegetarian I was shocked to read a large take away food shop had meat product in their vegie burgers and I joined a group in protest and I got a reply to say it was too hard to make a vegetable patty without meat product in it...so I don't think they know what they are doing, why don't they just keep things simple so people know what they are buying.

well, it was 1984... but actually its based on Make Room! Make Room!, by Harry Harrison http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green

Oh, my gosh! When I tried the words "pink slime" with myLot search... Yes, maybe it's a good idea to become vegetarian but I'm not ready for this yet. I don't cook very often and most of the times my daughter don't want to eat meat. But when I need ground meat I don't take the ready made stuff. I buy a peace of meat and tell them to grind it. There is a big difference - in the price too!

I haven't followed up much on "pink slime" issue but if they are putting it in hamburgers in supermarket then it is really bad. I'm just glad that I don't eat meat...

Since you posted this, I went to look it up. Most stores and butchers do not know if it is in their meat or not. It is estimated that 70% of the meat in supermarkets has it. The only way to be sure that burger you buy does not have it is to buy organic. I would also say that we could avoid it by buying steak and grinding it myself. Or buying ground turkey or ground pork, but I do not know for sure that there is not pork or turkey, or chicken pink slime.

At the price of ground beef, I make my own. I look for the lowest price per pound for beef and then will buy the piece and grind it myself. It is better tasting and fresher. Plus I know that the meat grinder is super clean where I don't know about the one in the market. I got turned off to fast food when many of the burger places started adding soy to their burgers back in the 80's. It made the meat taste terrible because the fast food places got over exuberant in adding the soy and added too much. That's when I swore off fast food especially burgers. Even when I happen to go to a fast food place I usually order a salad or if it's Taco Bell I order a bean burrito.

I read all that too. I will still eat burger meat, just not as much.. moderation on everything. But still...lately the price has been so high and I can get T-bones or sirloins or even filet's for a buck or 2 more! So I buy in quantity and can even grind that up to make burger meat. I have been wondering for a few months why the price of burger meat has nearly doubled....now I know why. Probably everything you buy in a store can be tracked back to having something bad in it. Even veges....pesticides, bug spray, fertilizers etc. Some can be washed off but not what has "soaked" in. I read to that since all this has come out..the Fed's are shipping all the pink slime meat to schools across the country...elementary schools and high schools that serve lunches......

Yep, I think it's true. Seems like I heard about it back when it was first discussed on some radio program and then I saw this subject on a tv report just this past week. I've decided not to buy any more ground beef unless it is truly labeled as organic. That green slime stuff just put me off.

Yay what is pink slime? please tell...I make my own burgers but then I just wonder what is in the mince! at the end of the day I ask the butcher to mince a piece of steak for me at lest I know what is there...it can be expensive so I don't do it very often.

That's a huge reason why I don't buy the pre-packaged beef sold in major grocery chains. It's back enough that this pink slime is mixed in (and who knows how much), but then gases are pumped into packages so that meat stays pink in color, even if it's gone bad. I'm lucky to have a small, family-owned grocery near me, where all meat is ground right in the store with no added fillers added. When I see a good markdown on steaks or roasts, I also buy it to grind in my food processor. It's cheaper that hamburger, and I like controlling how much fat is in it. It will comfort you (not) to know that ground beef is NOT the only place this stuff is being used. Here is a link to an INFORMATION ONLY article about the process: http://gmagoldie.hubpages.com/hub/Ammonia-in-United-States-Beef

I guess we should all just turn into vegetarians! . That's my answer. I haven't actually followed what's going on with the 'pink slime' but I've been hearing enough about it to be glad that I don't eat meat. Ha ha.

I read that the pink slime you're referring to is supposed to get put in kids' school lunches! Yes, the USDA wants to infuse kids' lunches with ammonia-infused cow intestines. There are some petitions online you can sign to try to stop the USDA from this. Disgusting.

I feel quite ill just thinking about it.

YOU BETCHA...The highly touted English Chef...Jamie Oliver and his show "food Revolution" exposed this about November on one of his T.V. shows! I watched it (between trips to the bathroom..to vomit)...I DO NOT wish to write about how gross the process is...NOR the toxic chemicals that is used to extract what is called "pink slime" and how it is added back into ground meat! Mcdonalds (Golden Arches) were one the biggest users...and they just made a Public Statement, they are "no longer using this form of hamburger!" I will try and find it, and send the link to you! It was stated in the show...the only good hamburger..is what you purchase from your Local Butcher! I haven't bought hamburger since...I have an old manual meat grinder and I make my own from Chuck Steaks!

Oh no! I will have to check this out. I hadn't heard of this yet. Sounds just awful!!

If there are really "pink slime" on the burgers right now but you need to have burgers, better made it by yourself. You are sure of what the ingredients of your burger. Also, you can show to your son how you do it and assure him that "pink slime" is not included in your burgers.

Well, I have heard some horror stories of meat being mishandled or made with this or that and the other thats not very healthy and it so makes me want to become a vegetarian too. But I still eat it and so far am still here. Not sure what to think about this anymore. I just wish we could eat without having to worry about what "they" are putting in our food all the time.

so glad you made mention of films like Soylent Green and the novel 1984. neither is far from the truth of what we're living with today! in fact, how menacingly clever is it -- after WWII, really ratchet up the industrial/corporate farms and the processed/junk foods, to where they all become commonplace to us, then wait about 40 years and start marketing 'organic' or 'natural' food. You gotta figure it's alot of the same high fat cats making profit from both sides! The ol' problem-solution scam. Like I'm fond of remarking, 'organic food' isn't 'organic food' like some people think - i.e. some new fancy unecessary thing... 'organic food' is simply FOOD. Food-food. Real food! upside-down world we live in.