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TIL in December 2018, lean finely textured beef(pink slime) was reclassified as "ground beef" by the Food Safety Service of the United States Department Of Agriculture. It is banned in Canada and EU. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL in December 2018, lean finely textured beef(pink slime) was reclassified as "ground beef" by the Food Safety And Inspection Service of the United States Department Of Agriculture. It is banned...

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Original Title: TIL in December 2018, lean finely textured beef(pink slime) was reclassified as "ground beef" by the Food Safety And Inspection Service of the United States Department Of Agriculture. It is banned in Canada and the EU.

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I worked at a meat processing plant, salt water is added to every piece of meat that went through there in order to bulk up the weight and increase margins. Sometimes it is just a soak in other cases (like peameal bacon) they inject it with 200 steel needles and a hydraulic pump.

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  • [–] [S] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Okay but I think you can read between the lines that salt wasn't the chemical that anyone was talking about here.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I can but can you look at a list of "chemicals" and identify which ones are food safe ingredients and which are hazardous? Not many people can, and using the label "chemicals" makes the problem worse.

    For example polyethylene glycol is a food additive in Dr Pepper but ethylene glycol the poisonous part of anti-freeze. If you do not specify what chemicals you are concerned about and why then you are just using a catchall term to paint a particular product or process as bad.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    You make an excellent point! Companies should not be allowed to use complex chemical names on food labels and instead should be forced to use words that consumers can recognize and use to make better informed decisions about the products they're consuming.

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