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Meat (sic) The Other Slimes
The massive grass roots campaign over the topic of "pink slime" which seemingly came out of nowhere, and led to the bankruptcy of the company producing the substance, shows just why product branding can be such a profitable industry. Had the company taken a hint from the Goldman playbook and dubbed the peculiar substance an "Asymmetric Meat Initiative" all would have been forgotten in days, if not hours. Unfortunately, the mechanical process of "lean finely textured beef", aka pink slime, is just the beginning. As ProPublica shows, after pink slime, there comes Mechanically Separated Meat, aka "White Slime", and then Advanced Meat Recovery. And if recent history is a guide, any entities that have an equity stake in these last two processes should be afraid, very afraid, because the fate that befell the first, is about to visit the other two, in the process making such other 'delicacies" as bologna, hot dogs, taco filling, and meatballs surge in price once the traditional cheap "filler" substance is taken away by the same people who consume said meat byproducts in droves, in the process likely ending the concept of the dollar menu for good as restaurants have no choice but to resort to quality food. Ironically, will fat America itself, terrified by concepts such a colored slime, be responsible for its own weening from some of the worst products on earth, and in the process raise the price of food, and force itself to eat less? Will the end of the "slimes" be the one savior of the massively underfunded US welfare state as America gets healthy and lean again? Alas, we doubt it. But one can always hope.
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SPAM (squirrel,possum and monkey) has become the new filet mignon.
Soon, it will be the new currency.
Awww, Look at the city kids get worked up when they figure out where their food comes from.
When the pink slime campaign first started I said to a friend, "I guess nobody has ever seen balogna made before". Now they have moved on to attacking balogna. We use as much of the animal as possible to keep food prices down. Go out and try some pickled pigs feet sometime or cows tongue (which is delicious BTW) or head cheese (which is disgusting but edible).
So what? Capitalism = efficiency. Waste not, want not. I love that we are efficient and ingeneous enough to strip every useful cell out of that carcass.
I think this is telling something about the food supply. Not enough regular protein to go around, they need to scrape up whatever they can to bring food prices down within the US.
The US population will see a surge of negative dips, of course this is all transitory and priced-in to the food market.
"We have to feed the proles shitty 'food' in order to save the proles."
This slime shit storm and proccessed frankenfoodz(GMO) are just the Precurser to Soylent Green.
Pink slime?
Try eating vegemite....bitchez.
You sonofabitch.
I won't be able to get that song out of my head now.
Men at Work - Down UnderThat's so 80's
The continuing mob action about Pink Slime is doing nothing to advance the knowledge of the consumer. In fact it puts their knowledge level in retrograde.
http://www.texasgrassfedbeef.com/pink_slime.htm
Um, I highly doubt that people are going to stop eating these scraps. Lean winter coming. Eat or die.
Fecal corn contains no slime ! Stay away from the mechanically separated fecal corn, although ! Be like a good North Korean and use your stainless steel Taiwanese Tweezers ! Monedas 2012 Mechanical humour and canned laughter !!
BREAKING NEWS...This just in:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/george-zimmerman-buys-79-84-worth-ite...
It doesn't get any better than this.
Meanwhile, on less worthy news, we are being poisoned by the food industry, if we choose to eat.
"cooling his heals...?"
Anyone can be a "Journo-list" or "Editor."
They put ads for those jobs on matchbook covers.
http://capital3x.com/trades/the-rally-for-c3xers/
Latest charts
look here's the thing, this doesn't matter at all
lolhippies
lolpeta
Pink slime or not, if the red meat you eat is not grass-fed in liberty, the meat you'll eat will not be healthy (mainly b/c of bad omega6 to omega3 ratio). The only thing we can do is try to gently inform people. But it's so hard to convince brainwashed zombie-consumers ^^
Everything but the squeal. Yum, yum.
That's what they say about that Pennsylvania Dutch delicacy, scrapple. And yes, it really is everything but the "oink".
http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/sleuth/0998/scrapple.html#axzz1rugcQuBo
From the movie "Slingblade" as Karl shares potted meat with his little buddy Frank...
Karl: [Eating potted meat] I reckon it tastes alright.
Frank: You really think it's got peckers in there?
Karl: You know better than that. You ought not say that word.
Frank: It smells funny.
Karl: Yeah, it's pretty loud. Looky there. I believe you right. I believe I see one right in there.
[They laugh]
I call it a Kaiser blade.
My kids a a rabbit for a pet. I tell them that if they don't take care of him properly, i.e. clean his cage, they will be eating him for supper.
Yeah but hotdogs taste good...
Bologna tastes good...
North Koreans would prefer this to eating each other.
Long on SPAM.
"It's whats for dinner."
Tyler,
All this ranting and raving about "(insert color here) slime" and not one article about the dangers of corn?
Tell me you're not just another Manhattan prettyboy with an invite to the PETA ball.
The continuing mob action about Pink Slime is doing nothing to advance the knowledge of the consumer. In fact it puts their knowledge level in retrograde.
http://www.texasgrassfedbeef.com/pink_slime.htm
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nuff said
The data for Kale comes from the government too. That data indicates you should be eating mostly Kale for optimal health. Guess what, that's an absolute fact. Also, the data for nuts and whole grains comes from the government and it indicates that those food items are mostly garbage. Guess what, that's an absolute fact too. An animal that lives on green leafy material for its whole life has the same nutrients as the green leafy material. The green leaf is the foundation food for all animal life. Those are facts too. Your response is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. It's ignorance overladen with more ignorance. nuff said.