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US main ground beef processor files for bankruptcy following hamburger’ ‘pink slime’ controversy
US ground beef processor AFA Foods filed for bankruptcy protection this week and said it plans to sell some or all of its assets, citing the impact of media coverage related to a meat filler critics have dubbed “pink slime.” Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI hope Jamie Oliver is pleased at having destroyed the livelihood of so many people as he checks his multi-millionaire bank balance.
Apr 07th, 2012 - 07:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0Good riddance.
Apr 07th, 2012 - 08:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0TWIMC
Apr 07th, 2012 - 09:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0Article reads:
“The company sells its retail products under the brand names “Moran’s” and “Miller Quality Meats.”
Article should read:
”The company sells its retail products under the brand names “Moron’s” and “Filler Quality Meats.”
The company sells its sludge of mechanically recovered and chemically pulverised skin, gristle and connective tissue .......
Apr 07th, 2012 - 09:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0Comment removed by the editor.
Apr 07th, 2012 - 09:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0On a positive note: it is no worse than the manufacturing process for most 'chicken' nuggets.
Apr 07th, 2012 - 09:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0•There have never been any reports of illness from any BPI products in three decades;
Apr 07th, 2012 - 10:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0•There has never been any recall of any BPI products during this time;
•In 2007 the company received the coveted Black Pearl Award for food safety and quality, from the International Association for Food Protection;
•The company’s lean, textured beef has contributed to 300 billion (with a “b”) meals during the past thirty years.
Veggie slime
•Cantaloupes have killed 18 people and sickened 72 others in several states, in 2011 alone—the deadliest outbreak of food borne disease in over a decade
•Tomatoes have sickened 459 people in this country between 2005 and 2006 according to the CDC and
•Lettuce has sickened 60 people in the United States during 2011 alone.
I'm with the ground beef.
@7 DennisA
Apr 07th, 2012 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Straight form the industry propaganda. eh?
No mention of the fact that this sludge is so unnatural that they have to peculate ammonium hydroxide gas through it in order to kill bacteria. Hygienically handled and processed meat doesn't need to be chemically disinfected in order to make it safe for consumption.
You say you are with the 'ground beef', but what we are talking about isn't ground beef .. that is the whole point. Ground beef is a quality product, whereas this sludge would be better named 'spot the beef' and is used to dilute proper ground beef in a manner that goes undeclared and is passed off as meet.
As for jobs? There would be far more jobs created than the ones lost if all pink slime was replaced with regular ground beef.
Amerifcans are not obese simply because they overeat and aare inactive. WHAT they eat is uselessw as a nutrient because these products are affordabld. Any natural foods are marketed ad “exotic” or “organic,” so that the prices can be boosted on what should be the normal market product. All the while, companies like AFA and Kraft and Beatrice, et al. continue to market processed foods that barely resemble what they purport to be. Pasteurized cheese “products,” for example, top the pink slime burgers that are on buns made of nearly anything other than nutritious flouw and garnished with sauces containing corn syrup and flavor enhancers over iceberg lettuce, the least nutritional available. Empty calories, cheaply produced, all in order to maximize profite for corporations, which already own the US government. Otherwise, they would be unabled to represent this reprocessed garbage as real food and get away with selling it at greal social cost.
Apr 08th, 2012 - 02:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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