Did you know there is a substance called Pink Slime found in hamburgers you buy at McDonalds and even some school lunch programs?
Did you know that Pink Slime is a product made from beef scraps including fatty trimmings that were once relegated to pet food and cooking oil?

Beef Products, Inc came up with an idea to inject beef with ammonia to kill E.Coli as well as salmonella so the processed beef could be sold and used in hamburgers.  McDonalds, Burger King, grocery chains, and federal school lunch programs used the beef.  What will they think of next?  Is the savings worth the potential health risk?  What do you think?


To read the full article by the New York Times, December 30, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/us/31meat.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1