Supermarket Chains Say Goodbye To Pink Slime

Three major supermarket chains now bailing out on carrying ground beef with the filler known as ‘pink slime’.

FOX News Radio’s Chris Stanley has the story:

The meatpacking industry calls it ‘lean, finely textured beef’, but in recent weeks it’s become known as ‘pink slime’, fatty bits of leftover meat that are heated, spun to remove the fat, compressed into blocks, exposed to ammonia to kill bacteria, and then used as a filler in ground beef.

The low-cost additive has been in use for years, but critics say the product could be unsafe and is an unappetizing example of industrialized food production.

Now at least three national supermarket operators, Supervalu, Food Lion, and Safeway, which own stores under a dozen-and-a-half different names, say they’re stopping buy ground beef with ‘pink slime’ in it.

Chris Stanley, FOX News Radio