Pink Slime: 'Pink slime' maker suspends some plant operations

Most of the recent media outcry surrounds “pink slime,” the low-fat filler used to bulk up many processed meats. Coverage focuses on schools, where parents and administrators alike worry about students' exposure to “chemically-treated” foodstuffs andAnd, of course, pink slime. That's the less-than-thoroughly-accurate epithet bestowed on what the industry prefers to call lean, finely textured beef, which is made by salvaging the fatty scraps left after the animal has been

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