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6/8/2012 6:33:09 PM

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"While the U.S. Department of Agriculture and industry experts have called the meat safe, some retailers including Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Safeway Inc stopped selling ground beef that contained the product after the ABC reports. BPI closed three of its four plants and cut about half of its 1,300-person workforce in the wake of the media coverage. Other defendants include a former Agriculture Department microbiologist said to have coined "pink slime" in a 2002 email. The case is Beef Products Inc et al v. American Broadcasting Cos et al, First Judicial Circuit Court of South Dakota, Union County, No. 12-292. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York and P.J. Huffstutter in Chicago; Editing by Andre Grenon and Stephen Coates)"

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/28/usa-media-abc-bpi-idUSL1N0MO2ET20140328

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"A lot of people like to point fingers at the food industry and government and claim conspiracies and such and that everyone is out to get us. The truth is that the food industry is driven by the consumer. "

... and maybe the consumer is finally coming to their senses? There's no need to rely on decades old food processing practices. We were dumb back in the days, we used asbestos, lead, ddt, radiation, where we shouldn't have, we told people to duck and cover. Modern science and techniques can figure out ways to mass produce food cheaply, without the need for excessive chemical treatments.

[Edited on March 27, 2014 at 10:38 PM. Reason : ]

3/27/2014 10:24:39 PM

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"There's no need to rely on decades old food processing practices."

Exactly, we should go back to centuries old food processing practices, i.e., none.

3/27/2014 11:24:37 PM

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"A lot of people like to point fingers at the food industry and government and claim conspiracies and such and that everyone is out to get us. The truth is that the food industry is driven by the consumer profits. "

3/27/2014 11:45:15 PM