Has Pink Slime Gotten a Bad Rap

No, it's not "lean meat." It's a lean product consisting of some meat, but also sinew, fat, and connective tissue. You know, those things we used to throw out to the dogs? But the main objection, at least on my part, is that it's "cleaned" with ammonia gas to kill e.coli and salmonella. Ammonia? Come on... and how do they clean that out of it? Personally, I won't eat any beef from the grocery store, much less this stuff. It can hardly be called food. I can see using something like this if we were starving or didn't have enough food to go around, but that's not the case. The only reason they're selling it is greed. They want more money from each cow slaughtered so they scrape inferior and potentially dangerous scraps of sinew, fat and connective tissue from the leftover bones to feed us.

I'd like to see somebody,ANYBODY,from the people producing this goop who's prepared to sit down and consume it,not as an additive but as part of their regular diet,if they're trying to pass it off as something that's wholesome and nutritious.....There has to be a limit to what can be done in the Over processing of our foodstuffs..I've also heard of processed chicken that has been left to macerate in a solution of stuff that sounds like what this "Pink slime" is described as..it super hydrates the meat,turning it into a gelatinous mass,thus boosting the weight to make more profit..It seems to Me to be a dishonest practice,pumping meat full of additives and water just to tip the scales so the customer thinks they're getting value for theit money while they're actually being ripped off..

It's more than just lean meat. It's the same kind of meat products that you'd find in hotdogs. And it's "cleaned" with bleach. Yuck. You can eat it if you so chose. I'll pass.

Pink slime is disgusting stuff and deserves the bad rap. The stuff they used to make it wouldn't even make it into hotdogs in the past. Hotdogs are of course made from noses, toeses, ears and @ssholes. Even with the processes they put it through it has bacteria counts higher than anything else we would dare eat. Residual presence of the chemicals they used to "clean" it are there as well and very bad for us. How on earth that passed required food tests and all is beyond me.

Im not sure if this is the same as what I sw on TV or not. It was on W5 or Marketplace. Its chemical they add in hamburgers and meats to keep it from going bad so quickly. I try to avoid any processed food after seeing this show. Its disgusting and I dont know how they get away with adding it and saying its *healthy*. But I think they called it green slime not pink.

What pink slime meat is made of is absolutely disgusting and I don't think it can be defended. The market acted accordingly and there was no government intervention (thank God). It's just the remnants of a carcass, put into a centrifuge, set in a bowl, mixed with ammonia. I mean, our food is bad enough, but this takes the cake. Now there are even more reports of other abhorrent food traits that our meat companies do. I think now is a better time for us to start thinking about our food consumption. I'm trying to slowly become a vegetarian, but I do admit that it is a hard thing to do. I'm glad pink slime has gotten a bad rap because it's unhealthy and insults anyone who is in the food industry period.

I seen this on this news like 3 weeks ago. The pink slime is on all hamburger meat products. Yeah I always thought that the redder the meat the better the meat was. Guess I was wrong. seems as if no food is safe for use to eat these days