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Did you know that ground beef you buy in your local grocery store may have scraps of beef mixed in as a filler and cost reducer? You might say no when it’s described like this, but what if it were to be called ‘Pink Slime’? Most of the general public is familiar with this term, even though they don’t know what it actually is. Why do they need to? It’s got slime in the name, it can’t be good. Well this article is here to set the record straight and prove that negativity views from consumers in regards to the filler are derived from media networks taking a product that is somewhat controversial, putting a cross bone sticker on it, and throwing in the public’s face until they’re scared about something they haven’t been given the facts to. The filler is called …show more content…
There are a lot of things to debunk regarding filler so let’s start from the beginning, where the filler came from. In 1990, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) approved the use of the technology for manufacturing the filler discussed here. At the time of its approval, the FSIS called the remaining product "meat", although a fox news report stated that one of the FSIS microbiologists disagreed with the approval, saying that the filler contained both muscle and connective tissue.3 In 1994 the founder of Beef Products Inc, Eldon Roth, who is one of the main manufacturers of the filler began working on a "pH Enhancement System," due to the recent public health concerns about the possibility of beef containing a bacteria called E. coli. The system was designed to disinfect the meat using ammonia in a gas form. Pink slime was approved for human intake in 2001 by the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture), though some of the microbiologists were still against the use of the filler, claiming it wasn’t meat. So what does the filler actually consist

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