Scientist who coined 'Pink Slime' reluctant whistleblower

[Julian Englis]

From Reuters, an interesting tale of how the pink slime story happened:

When he coined the term "Pink Slime" to describe the unlabeled and unappetizing bits of cartilage and other chemically-treated scrap meat going into U.S. ground beef, Zirnstein was a microbiologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

He made the slime reference to a fellow scientist in an internal - and he thought private - email. But that email later became public, and with it came an explosion of outrage from consumer groups.

Descriptions of a mix of fatty beef by-products and connective tissue, ground up and treated with ammonium hydroxide, then blended with ground beef have led the nation's largest supermarket chains to ban the product.

McDonald's said it would stop buying hamburger containing what the industry calls "finely textured beef," and the USDA has said school districts can opt out of feeding it to children/

More at: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/24/us-food-slime-scientist-idUSBRE82N0AG20120324

[riverbendviewgal]

1. Does anyone know if 5 guys has this pink slime in the hamburgers?

I am curious.

[emilyg]

2. They say they don't.