Mickey D's No Longer Using "Pink Slime" in Burgers

From Chron.com. They may as well switch to green slime for all I care--I don't eat there.

"Call it a slime of the times. McDonald’s says it will no longer use “pink slime” — beef trimmings washed in ammonium hydroxide to kill bacteria — as an additive in hamburgers. The term comes from TV chef Jamie Oliver, who has campaigned against the additive’s use.

In one episode of his show, Food Revolution, Oliver said the fatty trimmings would typically be used for dog food but instead are being recycled for humans. Oliver has decried the U.S. Agriculture Department’s decision to allow the use of pink slime, which many other countries don’t.

One USDA microbiologist told the U.K. Daily Mail: “I do not consider the stuff to be ground beef and I consider allowing it in ground beef to be a form of fraudulent labeling.”

McDonald’s said its decision to suspend the use of pink slime was “not related to any particular event.” Of course not. They just suddenly decided that maybe, you know, they shouldn’t put slime in their burgers."

This "pink slime" is heavily used in school lunch menus, other restaurants, and widely sold as cheap ground meat in the supermarkets. If you want to be sure you're getting honest, real ground meat, then buy large cuts, cut it up into stew chunks, and grind it yourself with a food processor or meat grinder.