Will you buy hamburger with pink slime added to it?
By beckish
@beckish (641)
United States
May 6, 2012 5:52pm CST
Ever since I found out about the filler in ground beef - pink slime- I have refused to buy it. I had purchased ground beef that I just thought was bad quality - but it shouldn't have been for the price - but then I found out about pink slime and realized that was the problem. I am tired of them doing nasty stuff to our food in the name of profits. Your thoughts?
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12 responses
@sconibear (8016)
• United States
7 May 12
Meh.....they've been selling it like that for years now, and before the news made a big deal about it you didn't know the difference and bought it and ate it anyways and you're still alive to write about it.
The only thing that's changed is you know about it now......it's the same hamburger you've been eating probably your whole life now.
The USDA says it's perfectly safe to eat and that's good enough for me.......and if anybody doesn't want their hamburger......or chicken nuggets.....or whatever food that people are saying is bad for you this month even though it's been around for years now and hasn't hurt anyone......I'll take it.
@beckish (641)
• United States
7 May 12
Actually who knows how many health problems have been caused from it? They used to put it into dog food. Now they treat it with ammonia to kill things like e coli and salmanella and add it to ground beef - and ground beef can contain 15% of it without labeling the meat as such. Pink slime is illegal in Canada - why would they ban it if it was as safe as they say? And the FDA does not have a great track record for product safety - as evidenced by the things that are FDA approved and constantly recalled due to safety issues.
@sconibear (8016)
• United States
7 May 12
Like I said.....the only thing that's changed, is you know about it now.......it's the same hamburger that's been around forever now.
If you don't want to eat it you have 3 choices:
Pay a lot more money for hamburger without fillers.
Raise a cow, butcher it and grind it into hamburger yourself.
or......and this is the easiest of the 3, DON'T eat hamburger.
I don't have the time or the money for any of those options to work out for me, so I'll just continue to eat the same hamburger I've been eating my whole life anyways and not worry about it.....I'm 50 now and am perfectly healthy so I'm not going to sweat the small stuff just because other people want to try to tell me what I should and shouldn't eat.....I'll worry about the things that are REALLY dangerous......like crossing the street while dodging texting drivers...
@Bluedoll (16770)
• Canada
6 May 12
You know there is only one way to deal with this. Don't eat it. On the larger picture boycott this stuff. Tell others to as well and why. To heck with these people, either they improve quality or suffer financially. Let someone who cares get the business. Maybe local people could do it?
@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
7 May 12
I thought that they were only doing this to the ground beef in fast food restaurants. If they are doing this to the beef we buy from grocery stores then I am sure there will be a strike against it and people won't be buying it demanding them to change it!
If it's in our grocer's beef too then there's a lot of food I won't be able to make for awhile as i use ground beef for a lot of dishes.
@cupkitties (7421)
• United States
7 May 12
I don't buy hamburger any way, but that sounds nasty. Pink slime. Hmm That sounds almost like some kind of sports drink. Announcer voice: PINK SLIME! No thank you.
@jambi462 (4576)
• United States
7 May 12
No I won't, I don't really eat meat very much and I actually avoid red meat most of the time unless my parents happen to be cooking it. Even then I am trying more and more each day to avoid processed foods, but it's hard sometimes because I don't always have enough money to buy my own food and pay my college bills at the same time. The more that I've tried to avoid the processed junk though and eat healthy the more I notice how bad I feel when I do eat things that are not good for me.
I would highly recommend everyone to avoid eating something that is called pink slime, and all the other fillers and preservatives that are in our food that we can't even pronounce or have any idea what it is.
@FrugalMommy (1438)
• United States
7 May 12
I'm really fussy when it comes to the quality of meats I buy. I haven't been actively following the pink slime controversy, but I skimmed through a few articles that my friends on Facebook linked to.
One of them had a list of stores that used the filler in their ground beef. I was surprised to realize that I've been unconsciously avoiding buying meat at the stores that used it. Like you, I thought the beef was bad quality when I bought the stuff that had the filler in it. I didn't like it, so I just never bought ground beef from those stores again. 
I think the only way to know exactly what's in the food we eat is to grow it ourselves. I can't wait to get my garden started in the next few weeks. 
I think the only way to know exactly what's in the food we eat is to grow it ourselves. I can't wait to get my garden started in the next few weeks. 
@peavey (16936)
• United States
7 May 12
I don't buy hamburger from the store if I can avoid it. There's a place here where I can buy grass finished beef by the package, so I do that and use other things than beef. The "pink slime" is just the tip of the iceberg, I think. The other things they do to our food should be enough to lock them all up for years.
@GardenGerty (169449)
• United States
7 May 12
It is unfortunate, but most any ground beef you buy anywhere will have "pink slime" in it. Your alternative is to grind your own, or go looking for what is best. I happen to know that at Kroger chain of stores their "Sterling Silver" line of beef does not have pink slime. Also meat that they trim in the store and then grind up does not have pink slime it it. This is straight from the butcher's mouth.Ask your store, if you want to be certain not to eat it, or buy roasts and steaks and grind them yourself.
@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
6 May 12
I have found out since that I was buying hamburger that had the pink slime in it. I doubt I ever would have bought it if I had known it was in it. I am tired of them being allowed to do nasty stuff to our food too. Just to make a buck! I was on Taco Bell from the beginning when there was some litigation against them. Now I know they were using the pink slime and denied it.
@frontvisions101 (16043)
• Philippines
7 May 12
I love hamburgers, and I can tolerate pink slime. What I can't tolerate is green slime. Yep, I found some on mine when I was eating at a cafeteria near my apartment. I complained about it. The waiter said it was pickle juice. I opened the bun and there were no pickles.
@bjc66bjc (6730)
• United States
7 May 12
hi beckish, it is so sad that our FDA/NATION have approved this
junk all these years..and its just recently coming to light..
but the thing about it we don't actually know what elses is
lurking out waiting to be announce..
I have not purchased ground beef of any kind/name or price
since that be reveal...
@rewardsinlife (1132)
• United States
6 May 12
First of all, ick! Pink slime does not sound appetizing at all...and I was just going to cook hamburger...hmm maybe will rethink what I am going to have for dinner. Everyone has to be real careful especially lately of what they are ingessting because more food is getting chemicals and non-natural stuff added to it to make it cheaper to make.
