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BPI closing 3 plants, blaming 'pink slime' uproar
DAKOTA DUNES, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota beef company says it plans to close processing plants in three states because of the controversy surrounding a product that critics have dubbed "pink slime." Beef Products Inc. spokesman Rich Jochum said... -
Garden City meat plant closing permanently
DAKOTA DUNES, S.D. (AP) - A South Dakota beef company says it plans to close processing plants in three states because of the controversy surrounding a product that critics have dubbed "pink slime." Beef Products Inc. spokesman Rich Jochum said Monday...
Tags: Plant Closings
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Maker of 'pink slime' closing three plants, 650 jobs gone, because of outcry over meat product
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Beef Products Inc. will close processing plants in three states this month because of the controversy surrounding its meat product that critics have dubbed “pink slime,” a company official said Monday. About 650...
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Expert: 'Pink slime' may be unappetizing, but it's safe, genuine beef
Whether you call it "pink slime" or lean, finely textured beef, you can call it a much-maligned product at the heart of an emotional controversy fueled by misinformation, according to a meat expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. The...Tags: Consumers, Physiology, E. coli Infection, Burger King, Media Industry
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Meat glue safety and labeling defended by industry
Tribune reporter"Meat glue" has been around for decades, but, like "pink slime," the product has recently bubbled to the surface of public consciousness in a way that's making the meat industry uneasy. Recent news reports have questioned the product's safety and--as...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Consumer Goods Industries, Foods and Beverages, Economy, Business and Finance, Soups
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'Meat glue' is safe and natural, American Meat Institute says
The American Meat Institute is striking back at reports that “meat glue,” a binding agent often used to patch together pieces of beef and other protein, is unsafe and unnatural. In an occasionally touchy conference call Thursday, the trade...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Companies and Corporations, Tour Operations Industry
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Best Natural Food Market
1) Whole Foods The question is no longer "Where's the beef?" It's become more like "Where's the beef from, and what was it fed?" Bill Daley, the meat team leader at Whole Foods, can answer these questions for you. "All of the farms that we use are...
Tags: Whole Foods Market, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Milford (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Beef Processor Shuts Plants Over "Pink Slime" Fallout
Los Angeles TimesBeef Products Inc. told the Associated Press on Monday that it will shut down operations at three of the four plants where it makes the meat product that critics have nastily taken to calling "pink slime." But some food industry experts say that the...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Consumer Goods Industries, Safeway Inc., Kroger Company, E. coli Infection
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Pink Slime -- is it in your meat?
PETOSKEY — Each week, D. Schultz, owner of Tannery Creek Meat Market in Petoskey, uses his sign along U.S. 31 to advertise his in-store specials. But earlier this month, those passing by may have noticed not what the store had on sale, but what it...
Tags: Agriculture, E. coli Infection, Media Industry, Agricultural Research and Technology, Walmart
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Schools will have non-'pink slime' ground beef options next year
Earlier this month, a Texas mom urged the federal government to stop using a mechanically separated and chemically treated rendered beef material (known to its critics as "pink slime") in school food through a petition on change.org. More than 200,000...
Tags: Los Angeles Times, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Oleson's says, 'No pink slime'
A representative for Oleson’s Food Stores, which is based in Traverse City and has stores in Charlevoix and Petoskey, said the supermarket chain does not carry beef with Lean Finely Textured Beef, known as “pink slime." On Monday, the News-...
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"Pink slime" plants close
KIAHThe unemployment rate is going up a bit this week, and, for once, it might be a good thing. Beef Products, Inc., the top producer of that ammonia-laced "pink slime" meat filler everyone has been so disgusted by recently, shut down several plants this...Tags: Burger King, McDonald's
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