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BPI Suspends 70 Percent of Ammoniated Beef Production

By Helena Bottemiller on March 27, 2012

Responding to a dramatic drop in consumer demand, Beef Products Inc, the nation’s leading maker of ammoniated beef now widely known as “pink slime,” announced it is suspending production at three plants. The suspended plants…

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‘The Lunch Tray’ Responds to Beef Industry Defenses of ‘Pink Slime’

By Bettina Elias Siegel on March 13, 2012

Lunch Tray readers following the astonishing progress of the Change.org petition launched here last week to get “Boneless Lean Beef Trimmings” (BLBT) out of school food (175,000  at present count) will hardly be surprised that…

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What’s Wrong With Pink Slime?

By Phyllis Entis on March 12, 2012

It’s high in protein.

It’s low in fat.

It’s been treated to kill Salmonella and E. coli.

It’s lab-tested before it is shipped.

So what’s all the fuss about?

Gerald Zirnstein, a former microbiologist with…
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BPI Ground Beef Gets Support From Food Safety Leaders

By Dan Flynn on March 9, 2012

As Beef Products Inc. was being “slimed” this week —  from the blogosphere to network television — David M. Theno was feeling unusually helpless watching from Tampa where he was keynoting the 2012 Annual Beef…
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Campaign Against BPI’s ‘Pink Slime’

By Dan Flynn on March 8, 2012

Texas food columnist Bettina Siegel, author of “The Lunch Tray” about school lunches, is now taking on ammoniated beef — the product dubbed “pink slime” made by the food safety leader Beef Products Inc.

Siegel…

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Manipulated Public Opinion Trumps Real Science – Again

By Chuck Jolley on January 9, 2012

The very recent attacks on Beef Products Inc. by groups of well-intentioned but seriously misguided foodies is more proof that good science is too often trumped by manipulated public opinion. For those of you who…

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