Thread: Pink Slime is good for American Schoo Children.

3. Costco
Does not use pink slime.
“Anything that we sell at Costco we want to explain it’s origins, and I personally don’t know how to explain trim treated with ammonia in our ground beef,” Craig Wilson, vice president of quality assurance for Costco, told ABC News. “I just don’t know how to explain that. I’m not that smart.”

Costco Warns About Beef Recall
JBS Recalls Meat Sold Between April 28 and May 28

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Costco is warning its customers about a beef recall instituted by JBS Swift Beef in Colorado.

The recall was expanded to include meat sold to Costco, which was used for steaks, ribs and ground beef. Costco bought roughly 4,300 pounds of the recalled meat, which may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria.

Costco Warns About Beef Recall - Kansas City News Story - KMBC Kansas City

Originally Posted by meridian5455

Looks like spam!

I was thinking the same thing.

Originally Posted by Red Eft

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4. Publix
“We have never allowed the use of LFTB (pink slime) in our meat. It’s 100 percent ground beef with no LFTB.”

DODGE CITY, Kan.-
At least three major grocery store chains are recalling certain packages of ground beef due to possible E. coli contamination.

The recalls at Winn-Dixie Stores Inc., Publix Super Markets Inc. and Kroger Co. mainly in the southeastern U.S. stem from meat from National Beef Packaging Co. of Dodge City, Kan.

E.coli outbreak leads to USDA beef recall

Originally Posted by Red Eft

... 5. H-E-B
“All our ground beef sold at H-E-B is 100% pure with no additives.”

H-E-B recalls meat sold in 61 Houston-area stores
Published 05:30 a.m., Wednesday, July 1, 2009


The H-E-B grocery chain Wednesday joined a national recall of beef products that are thought to have sickened at least 18 people with potentially deadly E. coli infections.

H-E-B recalls meat sold in 61 Houston-area stores - Houston Chronicle

Ok, I'm not going to bother looking up the rest. I think I've made my point.

Originally Posted by Djinn

Depends on how far away from "always" we're talking about. A burglar alarm system doesn't "always" protect your home from burglars. A band-aid doesn't "always" prevent cuts from getting infected.

Give me the figures on the effectiveness of of the ammonia treatment, and then I'll tell you how I feel. All I know right now is that the CDC has a list of all e. coli outbreaks since 2006, and neither Cargill Meat Solutions nor Beef Products, Inc. are listed, depite their enormous production levels.

I can't find any figures on outbreaks related to pink slime, I will admit. I do see a lot of recent articles trumpeting the safety of pink slime in my searches, however.

I did learn that ammonia treatment of meats in general has been deemed safe for 40 years.

Originally Posted by Ronin Tetsuro

... I did learn that ammonia treatment of meats in general has been deemed safe for 40 years.

Forty years? I'd heard it was developed in the 1980s, and implemented in the 1990s. I could be wrong on that.

Originally Posted by Djinn

And table salt is 60% toxic chlorine, and 40% explosive sodium metal. Enjoy your fries.

I will. I don't eat to much fast food, and I make my fries myself and am very spoiled. My sea salt is imported form Italy.

Originally Posted by michaelr

I will. I don't eat to much fast food, and I make my fries myself and am very spoiled. My sea salt is imported form Italy.

That's wonderful... But it's still salt. Sodium. And chlorine. Two spectacularly lethal toxins that lose their toxic properties when combined.

Originally Posted by Djinn

That's wonderful... But it's still salt. Sodium. And chlorine. Two spectacularly lethal toxins that lose their toxic properties when combined.

If your trying to get me to believe that ammonia loses its toxicity when mixed with water then drink a glass and let me know how that worked for you.

Originally Posted by michaelr

If your trying to get me to believe that ammonia loses its toxicity when mixed with water then drink a glass and let me know how that worked for you.

Well, I've eaten several McDonald's hamburgers in my lifetime... Does that count? But yeah... diluting helps.

That's why you get sick when you eat a tablespoon of salt, but you can put it into a large pot of soup.