Tim Sullivan
03-29-2012, 07:09 PM
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Well, the a-holes at the American Bolshevik Channel are at it again.
Several weeks ago, ABC reported on a beef product called Lean, Finely Textured Beef (LFTB), named "Pink Slime" in 2002 by Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA) microbiologist Gerald Zirnstein.
The process of producing LFTB involves taking low quality beef trimmings, separating the fat and meat with heat in mixers and centrifuges, then squeezing it through a tube the size of a pencil. The product is exposed to ammonia gas in this process which turns into ammonium hydroxide when mixing with the water in the product. The combination of the gas with water in the meat results in a reaction that increases the pH (lowering acidity) of the beef trimmings, destroying pathogens such as E. coli and Salmonella and making it legally fit as a food additive. At the end of the process, the product is at least 90 percent lean beef.
Thanks to ABC's so-called reporting of a decade-old story, an utterly predictable consumer backlash against LFTB has occurred, resulting in many wholesalers and grocers refusing to sell ground beef which includes the additive--this despite USDA's perfectly reasonable assertion that no additional labeling is required since the product in question IS BEEF.
The upshot? Three of the four plants producing a perfectly usable product have been closed, resulting in good American jobs lost. Nationally, beef sales generally have slumped since this so-called story broke, impacting beef producers in many states, resulting in even more job losses.
So, whatever good might have been achieved by ABC's much lauded efforts to "bring American jobs back home" have been undone in one fell swoop--all because these a-holes couldn't resist the urge to manufacture a totally worthless "news" story and stir up an imaginary controversy. As to the jobs lost as a direct result of ABC's irresponsible "reporting," only one brief mention of said jobs has been made on that worthless network to-date, as one might expect from childlike vultures who steadfastly refuse to be accountable for their own actions.
For those of you who might actually think that "Pink Slime" is bad for you, chew on this one:
The world's largest purchaser of bulk cow eyes and hooves is McDonald's--and that stuff isn't even processed as thoroughly as LFTB.
Bottom line, it's all beef, and beef by any other name tastes just as good.
Well, the a-holes at the American Bolshevik Channel are at it again.
Several weeks ago, ABC reported on a beef product called Lean, Finely Textured Beef (LFTB), named "Pink Slime" in 2002 by Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA) microbiologist Gerald Zirnstein.
The process of producing LFTB involves taking low quality beef trimmings, separating the fat and meat with heat in mixers and centrifuges, then squeezing it through a tube the size of a pencil. The product is exposed to ammonia gas in this process which turns into ammonium hydroxide when mixing with the water in the product. The combination of the gas with water in the meat results in a reaction that increases the pH (lowering acidity) of the beef trimmings, destroying pathogens such as E. coli and Salmonella and making it legally fit as a food additive. At the end of the process, the product is at least 90 percent lean beef.
Thanks to ABC's so-called reporting of a decade-old story, an utterly predictable consumer backlash against LFTB has occurred, resulting in many wholesalers and grocers refusing to sell ground beef which includes the additive--this despite USDA's perfectly reasonable assertion that no additional labeling is required since the product in question IS BEEF.
The upshot? Three of the four plants producing a perfectly usable product have been closed, resulting in good American jobs lost. Nationally, beef sales generally have slumped since this so-called story broke, impacting beef producers in many states, resulting in even more job losses.
So, whatever good might have been achieved by ABC's much lauded efforts to "bring American jobs back home" have been undone in one fell swoop--all because these a-holes couldn't resist the urge to manufacture a totally worthless "news" story and stir up an imaginary controversy. As to the jobs lost as a direct result of ABC's irresponsible "reporting," only one brief mention of said jobs has been made on that worthless network to-date, as one might expect from childlike vultures who steadfastly refuse to be accountable for their own actions.
For those of you who might actually think that "Pink Slime" is bad for you, chew on this one:
The world's largest purchaser of bulk cow eyes and hooves is McDonald's--and that stuff isn't even processed as thoroughly as LFTB.
Bottom line, it's all beef, and beef by any other name tastes just as good.