Dude it's beef!

Yeah, sure, I am very against how the media slants so many stories. However I am grateful to whoever did this one. I believe it. I am furious that for years I did not know what I was feeding my children not to mention mysellf. This is one of the worst food stories I have heard ever. I think congress should get involved and get to the bottom of this and prosecute whoever in the FDA that was paid off to ok this garbage for human consumption. Oh that's right, guess they can't do that since they are probably in on it too. Oh well, sad time in America when we can't count on the people that are supposed to keep our food supply safe to do that. We don't have to worry about terrorists poisoning our food supply. Our government isi doing a great job of that themselves. WOW is all I can say.

Julie seems to one of those people who jump to false conclusions without examining facts. Read today's Des Moines Register, Julie. Do you think Gov. Branstad would be defending LFTB if it posed even the slightest danger? From what I have read and heard on NPR, not a single person has ever been become ill from eating hamburger containing LFTB. If the media started calling hamburger "ground up bovine matter," millions of people like Julie would quit eating it.
thousands of people would quit eating it.

Oops, I forgot to proofread. The last line doesn't belong.

I love beef, and I eat what is good, ground beef and perfectly cut steaks!

I prefer my slime to have a turquoise hue.

I work in a meat department, and it really amuses me how the meat industry has turned this into an issue of consumer choice. I mean, yeah, if you want to eat low quality beef trimmings, go right ahead. Have a hot dog, too. I don't mind when people CHOOSE to eat unhealthy foods. (Protip: "lean" is not synonymous with "healthy.")

What I mind is that people have unknowingly been purchasing an inferior product, often at a greater cost than a superior product. The beef we grind at the meat department I work at is cheaper than the prepackaged beef we receive from BPI. Take a guess: which one contains LFTB? The cheaper product, right?

Wrong.

At the very least, ground beef containing LFTB should be labeled as such. Give people the choice, but give them the choice to choose the healthier (and sometimes cheaper) alternative.

Branstad is likely defending the product because he has friends that own those plants that produce the "pink slime" He signed off on the "Ag Gag" bill remember. He and his buddies don't want us to know where our food comes from

I want to know what the ammonia does with long term use Its not the "beef" part I wonder about Why is no one talking about the ammonia? Someone please explain

The pink slime producers and their defenders want us to believe that "cleaning" their product with ammonia is healthy for us. How many small butcher shops who grind their beef use ammonia to "clean" it? What BPI/Branstad won't say is that they HAVE to clean it because they're producing millions of pounds of this slime and when you do that on an industrial scale you must "clean" it with something pretty powerful and nasty to wipe out all of the bacteria.
The best "cure" for all of this is to buy fresh and buy local from trusted farmers and local butcher shops.

I have heard some mothers say they wouldn't let their kids eat it, but yet they have no problems feeding them hot dogs. The beef is actually better for them.
It does need a different name. I feel that is what is making people think twice about eating it.

So...What's the new name?

The new name could be finely ground beef.

Well I have not been drinking media Kool-aid but I have been eating parts of a cow I would never knowingly have. I already knew to be very selective about hotdogs and I am, even then eating very little of those. I feel this is probably just the tip of the iceberg. There is probably so much more to this story that has not even come out yet. I am a nurse. I understand how there can be different names for the same thing. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Personally I am going to be a big supporter of local farmers and their products before we totally lose them completely. Big corporations in bed with the FDA is how the anus of a cow ends up being called finely ground lean meat. We have a farmer here in town who has fresh eggs, butter made fresh, etc. My family will be consuming things from people I can trust from now on.

Does anyone really know what parts of the cow go into "non-slimed" ground beef? How about sausage or hot dogs? Along those lines, does anyone here have any idea how gelatin is produced or how many things you find it in? It's all pretty "gross" when you call it what it truly is, but it doesn't make it necessarily wrong or unsafe.

Well since so many of you think it is so wonderful, chow down, enjoy., as for me I am done.

Don't be surprised if the waco liberals link this stuff to global warming too :)

Nobody is saying it should be taken off the market, it should be labeled and consumers will have a choice to buy it or not.
Calling people names because they care what they consume is ridiculous

Trolls on April Fool's Day---how appropriate.