Yummy! Ammonia-Treated Pink Slime Now in Most U.S. Ground Beef.

Things like this make me glad that my family hunts deer, and butchers enough to last the entire year.. buy our beef as fresh as it gets (right off the live cow), and get our dairy products from a local family owned dairy.

The meat/fish industry is awful. I am so glad that things like this make it into the news. People need to know what is happening. I am a vegan, but I support peoples' right to eat whatever they choose. I just hope that this article, and others like it, will empower people to come up with their own conscious decision of what they eat, or where they shop.

With all of this information coming out about chemicals in food it makes me wonder if food additives are part of the reason people in our country have high rates of illness and obesity.

u r a racist jackass who cant see past the tip of your nose. everything that is wrong with this country is a byproduct of the bush administration. And people like you who dont care if this country goes to hell in a handbasket just as long as its a white man who takes you there. obama has plenty of other messes to clean up before addressing amonia tainted meat. by the way i didnt know they had wi fi in trailer parks you must have a double wide. say hello to your sister-cousin for me. wheeee wheee. ps is it hard to type without opposable thumbs?

Capitalistic Americans, this is enuff to drive a person Vegan, Let's all (people, I know) begin to boycott ground beef; at least for the lenten season and make a difference...

Ammonia is a by-product of muscle effort. We make it inside us. Since most Americans are not working hard labor jobs that made EXTRA we can likely get it in the food and not suffer ill effects, just a shortened lifespan (general overall degradation). Very few people would actually get sick. Most of it is likely cooked out. That's why Bailey78 said the burgers were shriveling up he's cooking out all the bad stuff.

I think the reason the FDA scientists are not concerned is because they all believe the human cell has a pretty much set lifespan whether we eat this or eat that. I imagine they justify the genetically-modified vegetables with the same reasoning. It just really doesn't matter, the experts think, we could be eating Dog or Cat food wouldn't matter. The stomach's digestive juices will take care of it is likely what they were taught in Human Food School.

Pop another cola, even if it does weaken your ankles.

Bush never had his hands directly in this mess first of all, second just like every other part of the government what they tell bush and what they actually do are two different things. If you think this is incorrect then you are retarded and should avoid talking about politics because you obviously have no idea the kind of backstabbing that goes on. I eat McDonalds alot more then I should and have never been ill or had a jiggling mass on a bun fron ANY of the places I have eaten. Also if you want to blame bush for this then what is obama doing about it? I know exactly what he's doing about this... NOTHING, not a damn thing is being done.

or haven't been eating :). Pescatarianism!

This is good. Maybe some more Americans will think before they eat if this news spreads.

Since I have been on current, better than a year now...I have had the experience of learning more about food and foodstuff that I never thought I'd want to know.
I eat meat about once a week now.... I used to buy organic meat until Whole Foods bought out Wild Oats and quit selling meat at affordable prices. And you can't find the variety Wild Oats had.
So now, I eat a lot more veggies and beans and always get organic when I can...though I am skeptical about some organic labels.
So with that said.....outside of the fact that pink gooey stuff is your ground meat, a bacteria is also sprayed on your steaks, roasts, etc. to keep them looking all red and pretty longer.
Doesn't mean they taste any better, or that the meat isn't on the verge of being rotten...but it do look pretty!

Crap. Just when I was getting used to the UNtreated pink slime...

EVERYTHING we eat has been shit on stomped on spit on dropped regurgitaded. any time profit is involved. you better believe something nefarious is going on to increase profit. Believe it or not there is a cure for cancer but there is more profit in treating cancer than curing it.

This is sadly further evidence that "food" is no longer food in this country but a solely a vehicle for profit. Just like the tobacco industry re-engineered their product and target-marketed to maximize its consumption, so too is the so-called "food" industry. This is wreaking havoc on human lives and our best response is that individuals should be responsible for what they eat? Who would think to ask, does this meat contain pink slime treated with ammonia?

Fake and processed food should be labeled clearly as such. This accounts for at least 90% of what is sold in grocery stores.

Sadly, even for the stuff that is clearly labeled, few Americans know the ingredients of real food. That bread is generally made of only flour, yeast, water, and salt. Or that yogurt is simply milk and enzymes (the fruit and other stuff is best added fresh). Further, we're under the delusion that food should be always plentiful, cheap, convenient, and have a long shelf-life. It is none of these things.

Sadly, too few of us realize any of this.

Victory burgers!

THANK YOU spacemikey! Great info! I will definitely speak up about this. Also we must remember to educate our children. The teens especially as they go out and eat a lot of this pink yack.

I guess I am going to have to become a vegetarian...NOT, I don't eat ground or processed meat, I prefer it right off the animal.

On a positive note, there are a lot of small regional supermarket chains that have a butcher on site. You can talk to them about how they do things, they'd probably even let you look around their work area. I went and talked to a butcher at one today, he said they don't use ammonia on anything and they are real particular about quality...

I just cut up my own 1/2 beef, but I will try and avoid any American products with beef from now on.

We could always start our own city up by a glacier. Drink good water, make our own food, connect to the world with internet and our own spaceport.
No shitheads. Ten Strikes and they're out.

OMG !!!!!! bottle it ...? Please Don't !!!!!

Ground beef is one of the worst choices anyone could make for a meal. I'd rather eat untested spinach and peanut butter than a USDA stamped pack of ground beef.

Can this pink slime be bottled and served cold? You know, as a refreshing high protein post workout beverage?

And add to that some GM soy feed, and you have a recipe for a tasty bacterial treat!

I always figured there was something gross about the ground beef they use at those restaurants. Honestly they can put whatever filler they want into that stuff since is not a solid piece of meat. Personally i prefer the hormone and anti-biotic injected chicken. YUM

And yet, people think we now have a healthcare bill passed through the senate that will actually work to keep us well? Again, food and environmental policy if not addressed first and in tandem with healthcare policy neuters and discredits any such "healthcare" bill.

And how bout those hormones! :-}
One person I know thinks it not only has created girls having breasts @ nine and ten, or eight - and kids having sex early, but also too much estrogen in women. So much, too much that they can't control themselves, hating that their body controls them! And feminized boys. Lots of boys leaning.

This is absolutely disgusting. Please tell all your friends, more negative exposure hopefully leads to change. Buy local, eat local, love local.

what a great article to start our diets off in the new year... jeez thanks bush!

Don't worry, the government will fix it.....hahahahaha

What a joke, to think that people still believe the USDA and statism can 'help' us.....nothing will change....it's statism that is evil and that oligopolized the meat industry in the first place, this started LONG ago! Even Upton Sinclair admitted before he died that most of his meat packing regulations actually went to the BENEFIT of big business, and that regulations in the end helped the government backed corporatist state push out smaller competitors who couldn't pay for the regulations and taxes. I wish there were more small companies worried about reputation and quality versus the status quo, government backed corporatist state that looks to rent seek through government advantages. What we need to do is stop the coercion that props up these industries, but that would require a freer society....and most people have been brainwashed away from that......

I used to work for a big grocery chain with their own meat processing plant. Hamburger was always gross. The tubes of hamburger used to turn a kind of sickly gray/green color after a while. I asked one time about sending that burger to the stores and I was told that there is nothing wrong with it, they will re-grind it at the store and it will look fine. That was funny because in theier store's meat department there were signs prominently displayed which said "We do not re-grind our hamburger"...

But hey, it's cheap :-)

"Honey, what's for dinner?"
"We're having pink slime."
"Again?"
"But you love the pink slime."
"I know, but once in a while some green slime might taste good, too."
"Hey- why don't we eat out tonight?"
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"Whoppers?"
"Mmm. Whoppers!"
"Get the car keys."

This is sickening and frightening and I am sure that this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to additives in meat products.

This gives A LOT more support to eating local.

I'm lucky enough to live in close proximity to organic beef, organic chicken, organic ostrich and organic pork farms where you can visit when you wish to see how the animals are farmed. This is the only meat my family has eaten for the past 5 years and I am VERY grateful for that, especially after reading this article.

you can cook them..... and give them to your neiboors dog !!
then again... maybe the dog won't eat them either !!

I will actually use the link but I still like the taste. oesn't make my feel sick and my doctor says I am in good health. Will continue to eat the "tainted", meat but should have known up front of all additives. Kids should not be eating this stuff.

well, at least I know enough to get my (meat) from the butcher now !!

I know...what your (thinking ! ) don't EVEN Go Their !

About three cents a pound

Whats the diffrence between pink goo and pink slime?....................................

Why did I read that. I have a box of burger patties in the freezer right now . Not the good ones either the cheap one that fry down to nothing. Now I don't know what I'm going to do with them . Every time I go to cook one of them I'm going to see a pink goo patty. Thanks a lot Spacemikey for ruining a good thing for me. Any of you folks want a box of frozen pink Goo I mean slime ? They fry up and kind of look like a Mcburger patty. come to think about it they look just like a Mcburger patty Shit now I can't eat them THANKS AGAIN SPACEMIKEY..........

That is just FOUL! There was never a better time to change your eating habits than RIGHT NOW!

Here's a working link to the White House contact page: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact

LOL... they can't put that shit in steaks!! And you can always get fresh-ground hamburger from your local meat shop. It's the pre-processed hamburger meat that has this in it, not fresh meat from the butcher. I don't buy that crap anyways...

After reading this !!! I now turn to eatting FISH !

but, one question, if you go to a private butcher....do you get the same thing ? Fast food chains serve at the drive-thru window?

Ugh.

your whitehouse link does not work....simply because current is now tracking any external clicks we make from their site....and f'ing up external links royally in the process. More genius from the new CEO I bet...

yuck, now im never going to eat ground meat again!!

I am so glad that I no longer have to buy meat fron grocery stores anymore. I raise what I eat and slaughter it myself. I know the animal was treated in a humane way the entire life it spent at my farm and I know it wasnt shot up with a bunch of drugs.

as far as eating fast food shit burgers, you mean people still do that? Yeech

And suddenly,... I was a vegetarian.....