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FILTER RESULTS ►Weekend viewing: A food politics story for kids—Mr. Zee’s Apple Factory
I’ve been waiting for the weekend to write about the kids’ story by Bettina Elias Siegel, the school food advocate who writes The Lunch Tray blog (and who put “pink slime” on the map). Her video story—in rhyme yet—is titled Mr. Zee’s Apple Factory: A Tale of Processed Food and is worth the 12 minutes it [...]
Queens Elementary School Serving Exclusively Vegetarian Food
Elementary school kids at a Flushing school won't be subjected to the horrors of pink slime anymore! PS 244 in Queens is now the first public school in the country to serve exclusively vegetarian food. Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott announced the initiative yesterday and dined in the cafeteria to sample the meat-free meal himself. Show More Summary
Internal Emails Reveal FSIS Was Divided on ‘Pink Slime’
By Gretchen Goetz and Helena Bottemiller By March of last year, lean finely textured beef (LFTB) had reached celebrity status under the unfavorable moniker “pink slime.” The product—which is made by centrifuging slightly heated fatty beef trimmings to separate out lean meat bits and then treating that meat with ammonia gas to reduce foodborne pathogens —was... Continue Reading
‘Pink Slime’ Maker’s Case Against ABC is Becoming a Landmark Defamation Case
Photo via Shutterstock After ABC News ran a series last year about Beef Products Inc.’s ‘lean finely textured beef’ that then gained the unflattering moniker ‘pink slime,’ the story went viral. Blogs and newspapers all over the world spread the message about the mixture containing chunks of beef, trimmings and ammonium hydroxide to kill E.coli [...]
One Year Later, The Makers of ‘Pink Slime’ Are Hanging On, and Fighting Back
Five weeks before the Internet went mad over the presence of “pink slime” in ground beef across the U.S., the product’s creator was being inducted into the Nebraska Business Hall of Fame. It was Feb. 2, 2012, and Eldon Roth – a man without...Show More Summary
An In-Depth Analysis Of ABC News/Pink Slime Lawsuit
In September of last year, ABC News was hit with a lawsuit over a “World News” report that referred to “lean, finely textured beef” as “pink slime.” The suit was filed in South Dakota, which is the home of the company in question, and...Show More Summary
Pink Slime Is Feeding Diane Sawyer a Big, Fat Lawsuit
By now, you've almost surely heard at least some mention of the notorious "pink slime" that's invading fast food and, by consequence, our children's lunches. More »
6 Incredibly Disgusting Additives Found in Everyday Foods
The recent scandal over horse meat found in “beef” products in the UK has sent a wave of disgust and panic through the country and beyond — while last year’s uncovering of the true ingredients in pink slime caused some in the US to reconsider their meat-eating habits. But that’s just the tip of the [...]
Choices Magazine examines lean finely textured beef ('pink slime')
A recent theme issue in Choices Magazine, a publication of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA), examined lean finely textured beef (LFTB), an ammonia-treated beef filler product widely known as 'pink slime.'
To some extent, the authors of the theme overview, J. Show More Summary
McDonald’s Australia App Lets Diners Track Source of Food
Last year, McDonald’s was making headlines after Jamie Oliver revealed that its burgers contained pink slime, beef trimmings cleaned with ammonium hydroxide. Now McDonald’s, in Australia at least, is coming clean and letting users track...Show More Summary
Ground Beef Sold in UK Supermarkets Found to be Contaminated with Horsemeat
In the United States, finding out that much of the meat served in school lunches contains “pink slime” (second-grade meat treated with ammonia) was a pretty shocking discovery. In the UK, a watchdog organization has discovered the presence of horsemeat and pig parts in ground beef that is sold to supermarkets. The Food Standards Agency [...]
Meat Lovers In UK, Ireland Surprised That Beef Now Comes With Horse DNA Included
Over here we’ve had our spate of controversy over fillers in beef products but even talk of pink slime likely won’t provoke quite the reaction as telling someone there’s horse meat in their hamburger. The Republic of Ireland’s food safety authority (FSAI) says horse DNA has been found in burgers and other products purported to be made of beef in … [More]
Ann Coulter Is Fucking Ridiculous, Wants To Publish List Of Women Who Have Had Abortions
Whenever I hear Ann Coulter's name about to come on in the news, I just sort of expect that she's about to spew the language equivalent of pink slime. Prepare the skillet, folks, because lo and behold: this assumption was correct. More...Show More Summary
Is 'pink slime' making a comeback?
Companies that produce lean finely textured beef are challenging the media's description of their product as unsafe. Do they have a case?
USDA internal discussions of Pink Slime revealed: "We are taking a beating from the media"
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released a set of internal discussions about "pink slime", shedding light on early efforts to respond to public outcry over its presence in processed food. It is its first response to a FOIA request, filed by Government Attic, requesting copies of its deliberations. Though the USDA invoked expemptions to [...]
The Secret Origins of the Chicken Nugget
Chicken nuggets haven't always been made from pink slime, nor were they invented by McDonalds. Turns out we know surprisingly little about how these ubiquitous golden hunks of deep-fried poultry ever actually made it onto fast food menus. More »
The year in food and farming
From GMO labeling to pink slime to food worker rights, here's a look at 2012's biggest food stories.
2012: The Year in Made-up Food Words
White Alba truffles: Cloudy, with a definite chance of flurries.
Last week, the Food Section took the appropriate steps to make sure no one forgets about butt-chugging and pink slime in 2013 with its roundup of this year's stand-out neologisms and other food terms, which got us thinking: It's been an exceptional year for food words. Show More Summary
Fired 'Pink Slime' Worker Is Suing the Media for Losing His Job
Post by Maressa BrownJust when you thought you might never have to read the two cringe-worthy, appetite-killing words "pink slime" next to one another again -- or at least for a while -- a new lawsuit has brought the finely textured beef product (bllllughh) back into the headlines. Show More Summary
ABC News Sued Again Over “Pink Slime” Reports
A former worker at Beef Products Inc, the company at the forefront of a series of ABC News reports that said its meat was unsafe — turning the term “pink slime” into a pop culture hit — is suing the network, TV chef Jamie Oliver a food blogger and 10 unnamed defendants, saying the reports and their wake cost hm his job. Show More Summary
