US government says ‘pink slime’ can now be called ground beef

[editor]

No doubt coming to the UK, post Brexit!

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has now reclassified the product once dubbed “pink slime,” a meat filler product described as “lean finely textured beef,” as “ground beef.”

Beef Products Inc (BPI), the South Dakota manufacturer of the product, has received approval from USDA to label its product as “ground beef.”

The reclassification comes several years after BPI filed a defamation lawsuitagainst ABC News in 2012 after the news organisation coined the term “pink slime” in a report about its product. In 2017, the lawsuit resulted in a settlement between ABC News and BPI for about $177m, the highest ever in this type of corporate legal case.

US government says ‘pink slime’ can now be called ground beef

And here's what the indispensable Beef Magazine has to say Dude, it’s ground beef. USDA reclassifies BPI’s signature product

 

[NoXion]

We already have this stuff. I believe we call it "mechanically recovered meat".

 

[spring-peeper]

and yet another reason to make sure my meat products are made in Canada

 

[TopCat]

We already have this stuff. I believe we call it "mechanically recovered meat".

But here in the UK it cannot be flogged as ground beef or mince as we call it.

 

[NoXion]

But here in the UK it cannot be flogged as ground beef or mince as we call it.

Indeed, and the USDA doesn't get to make the legal definition of what ground beef or mince is for the UK. The US has had more lax standards than this side of the pond for as long as I can remember, so linking it to Brexit seems more than a little facile to me.

 

[editor]

Indeed, and the USDA doesn't get to make the legal definition of what ground beef or mince is for the UK. The US has had more lax standards than this side of the pond for as long as I can remember, so linking it to Brexit seems more than a little facile to me.

Perhaps you missed this?

MPs told Business Insider they are worried that a UK-US trade deal designed by Brexiteers could open the floodgates to contaminated food.

“Clearly, The Tories have some very unpleasant surprises for UK dinner tables if they have their way with a fast-track trade deal with the United States,” Bill Esterson, the shadow trade minister, said.

UK consumers could be forced to accept insects, mould and rat hair in food as part of post-Brexit trade deal

 

[dessiato]

Indeed, and the USDA doesn't get to make the legal definition of what ground beef or mince is for the UK. The US has had more lax standards than this side of the pond for as long as I can remember, so linking it to Brexit seems more than a little facile to me.

A lot of current UK food standards originated in EU regulations. Post Brexit how many will be kept when it'll be more profitable to drop many of them?

 

[Teaboy]

Indeed, and the USDA doesn't get to make the legal definition of what ground beef or mince is for the UK. The US has had more lax standards than this side of the pond for as long as I can remember, so linking it to Brexit seems more than a little facile to me.

If there is a post Brexit free trade deal with the US it will be a total one way shafting, that much is obvious. It seems a fairly safe thing to say is that the US will want to flog all their crappy food into the UK without any bothersome regulations regarding labeling.

There can be no better time to go vege.

 

[The39thStep]

But here in the UK it cannot be flogged as ground beef or mince as we call it.

Lasagne always sounds better

 

[Mrs Miggins]

A lot of current UK food standards originated in EU regulations. Post Brexit how many will be kept when it'll be more profitable to drop many of them?

This is a bit of a worry. I have a vague recollection of hearing that the yanks can't wait to sell us their substandard food shit post Brexit.

 

[The39thStep]

A lot of current UK food standards originated in EU regulations. Post Brexit how many will be kept when it'll be more profitable to drop many of them?

There have been a number of food quality sandals under EU regulations , fipronil contaminated eggs in Belgium , Polish meat from sick animals, the horse meat scandal, diluting beef with pork, listeria in vegetables, herbs, lettuces with pesticides.

 

[8ball]

We already have this stuff. I believe we call it "mechanically recovered meat".

Yeah, since the 1980s at least. I'm not sure what's special about BPI's processing, but being beef, it's going to be a lot more intensive in terms of natural resources than getting protein from mould or bugs.

 

[spring-peeper]

and yet another reason to make sure my meat products are made in Canada

hmmm - we allow this stuff in our food

Rodent hairs, mites, maggots and mould; these are some of the less-than-savoury elements the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) allows in your food. But don’t worry: a little dose of this won’t hurt you.


The CFIA has guidelines for the general cleanliness of food, which say your food is safe, until insects and filth reach certain levels. For example, manufacturers can’t allow more than 1/100 of a gram of rodent hair in chocolate.

In cheese, the CFIA states there can’t be more than five dead mites per square 2.5 centimetres and to a depth of 0.6 centimetres. Live mites are not tolerated.

Mushrooms can’t have more than 10 maggots in 100 grams of mushrooms.

Rice can’t have more than 25 insect fragments per 100 grams.

Not all of the allowed defects are organic. Cocoa powder can’t have more than five magnetic metal particles (that are less than two millimetres) in every 100 grams of powder.

Rodent hairs and bugs: The acceptable amount of grime allowed in your food in Canada

 

[NoXion]

Perhaps you missed this?

UK consumers could be forced to accept insects, mould and rat hair in food as part of post-Brexit trade deal

The fact that "In the EU there are no allowable limits for foreign bodies in food products." just means that food sold in the EU can get away with "undetectable" amounts. Not that there isn't any contamination at all.

Oh yeah, and we never eat horse meat sold as beef, thanks to those wonderful EU regulations. Ooops.

A lot of current UK food standards originated in EU regulations. Post Brexit how many will be kept when it'll be more profitable to drop many of them?

Brexit itself isn't even a nailed-on thing yet. If it happens, then depending on how it happens (i.e. deal or deal) it might be worthwhile applying pressure on the government to make sure that excessive crap is kept out of our food supply.

There can be no better time to go vege.

If the doomsayers are right, then even turning vegan won't save you. There's no reason to believe that laxity in regulation is strictly limited to animal products.

 

[8ball]

hmmm - we allow this stuff in our food

Rodent hairs and bugs: The acceptable amount of grime allowed in your food in Canada

See. Mould and bugs. Very efficient.

 

[Teaboy]

Brexit itself isn't even a nailed-on thing yet. If it happens, then depending on how it happens (i.e. deal or deal) it might be worthwhile applying pressure on the government to make sure that excessive crap is kept out of our food supply.

The even further right wing of the tories is stacked full of Atlanticists, these are the people May is desperately sucking up to and is desperately craven to. In a post Brexit Britain absolutely desperate for deals there can be little doubt that the tories will give the family silver away just to get a deal with the US. Writing a letter to your MP ain't going to change that.

Trump will happily shaft the UK because he may be a complete ignoramus on most things but he does know how to pull off a very one sided deal. May and her lot will welcome it with open arms and brown tongues.

 

[NoXion]

The even further right wing of the tories is stacked full of Atlanticists, these are the people May is desperately sucking up to and is desperately craven to. In a post Brexit Britain absolutely desperate for deals there can be little doubt that the tories will give the family silver away just to get a deal with the US. Writing a letter to your MP ain't going to change that.

Trump will happily shaft the UK because he may be a complete ignoramus on most things but he does know how to pull off a very one sided deal. May and her lot will welcome it with open arms and brown tongues.

I didn't realise that writing to our MPs was all we could do. I guess we're doomed then.

 

[The39thStep]

Vegetables in some areas of China are still fertilized by human waste, obviously in the UK its animal waste. Chicken shit is used as a high notogen feed for green leave production. There was a tradition of using pigs blood for leeks and fish and bone for other veg. The Romans used rotting fish.

 

[spring-peeper]

Vegetables in some areas of China are still fertilized by human waste, obviously in the UK its animal waste. Chicken shit is used as a high notogen feed for green leave production. There was a tradition of using pigs blood for leeks and fish and bone for other veg. The Romans used rotting fish.

Until recently, Canadian farmers were allowed to use human waste on their fields.

A friend who runs a septic tank emptying company says the the human waste now gets put into the landfill sites.

 

[Pickman's model]

Vegetables in some areas of China are still fertilized by human waste, obviously in the UK its animal waste. Chicken shit is used as a high notogen feed for green leave production. There was a tradition of using pigs blood for leeks and fish and bone for other veg. The Romans used rotting fish.

so did the native americans, at least those ones who helped the pilgrim fathers

 

[Pickman's model]

No doubt coming to the UK, post Brexit!

US government says ‘pink slime’ can now be called ground beef

And here's what the indispensable Beef Magazine has to say Dude, it’s ground beef. USDA reclassifies BPI’s signature product

we have our own pink slime, the right wing of the labour party. the americans are welcome to them

 

[Teaboy]

I didn't realise that writing to our MPs was all we could do. I guess we're doomed then.

Maybe some placards as well.

 

[The39thStep]

Until recently, Canadian farmers were allowed to use human waste on their fields.

A friend who runs a septic tank emptying company says the the human waste now gets put into the landfill sites.

Provided the veg are washed in chlorinated water they can be sold in supermarkets

 

[spring-peeper]

Provided the veg are washed in chlorinated water they can be sold in supermarkets

washed and then rinsed in clean water

 

[isvicthere?]

No doubt coming to the UK, post Brexit!

US government says ‘pink slime’ can now be called ground beef

And here's what the indispensable Beef Magazine has to say Dude, it’s ground beef. USDA reclassifies BPI’s signature product

This, and the percentage of maggots allowed in foodstuffs. Yum yum!

 

[8ball]

This, and the percentage of maggots allowed in foodstuffs. Yum yum!

Soon to be increased to 100% as part of the effort to combat climate change.
Though to be fair, you will have to state "100% maggots" on the packaging.

 

[Chilli.s]

Buy a mincer, have a roast dinner, mince the leftovers, top quality mince. No rat fluff or bogies.

 

[spring-peeper]

or find a butcher you can trust

 

[joustmaster]

Buy a mincer, have a roast dinner, mince the leftovers, top quality mince. No rat fluff or bogies.

The average home kitchen and person is probably less clean than the factory.

 

[Teaboy]

or find a butcher you can trust

You can't trust any butcher. They all have it away with their meat, its a well known perk of the job.