The Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety in US stated that "The process used to produce LFTB [i.e. “pink slime”] is safe and has been used for a very long time. And adding LFTB to ground beef does not make that ground beef any less safe to consume." There have been no foodborne illnesses due to consumption of the product (see Wikipedia). Can someone tell me how this article was written? Pure lies from someone that has a kosher agenda, no knowledge at all of food technology, and no ethics. You may find this “pink slime” a disgusting product, but it is safe and it is food. What I find disgusting is hypocrisy.

Scraps not used in kosher meat products? Kosher eating healthier? Absolute nonsense. Go to the deli counter at any supermarket and look at the pink goo coming out of hotdogs and salami. Processed foods which have kosher certification (soup mixes, deli meats, coke, margarine etc) are NOT healthy and contribute to multiple health issues. I have also seen filthy conditions at kosher markets so unfortunately kosher does not always equal health. Susan, Raanana - health care practitioner

of any kind whatsoever, kosher or not, with or without piink slime, is analogous to smoking tobacco. It is simply an act of introducing harmful substances into your body and thus causing illness and medical conditions which would otherwise be totally avoidable. It is, just like tobacco, another manifestation of Man's stupidity and irrationality. It seems to me that the Human race is on a suicide mission.

Fine feed it to your kids we will be glad to send you and your kids some.

Yours is the typical paranoid answer that comes after the lack of proofs: “Hey, if you are so sure, give it to YOUR kids”. To my children I will give them healthy food in an equilibrated manner. I will not run crying wolf for extremely grounded meat that some conspiratorial news channel decided to put the name of “pink slime”. If you think it is dangerous, bring real proofs instead of empty emotional phrases. By the way, the author of this article also uses empty emotional phrases to justify kosher food, without any hint of knowledge of food technology. I find this kind of hypocrisy quite more dangerous than the pink slime.

Campbell Douglass II's essays on pink slime which I have read in his email medical news. He is an M.D. He said the pink slime meat is boiled in a toxic substance that is carcinogenic. You can eat it since you like frankenfoods. I'll skip it in my diet. Pink slime is good for the medical industrial complex since cancer patients are big bucks for hospitals and doctors. It is also good for the government to get people off Social Security and welfare and Medicare and Medicaid and other pensions when they die earlier than they would have had they been more careful to avoid frankenfoods.

OK, I read the article about the pink slime on Campbell Douglas (M.D.) web page. Nowhere he says that it is boiled in a toxic substance, and nowhere he says it is carcinogenic. He says it is disgusting, and I agree. But disgusting does not mean that you will die from it. Rivkah, you are reading what your mind wants to read, not what the M.D. says. I prefer to think that you have a strong imagination than to think that you lie to prove your point. Now, the governments (USA, Israel and all the others) are putting millions of our tax money to pay for research to cure and to prevent cancer, but you think they prefer to see us death to avoid paying for a Health insurance. It just does not have any sense. Your conspiracy theory is nothing more than an incredibly big “lashon hara”.

Don't forget. Also Ammonia which is poisonous is sprayed on the Pink Slime as per all the News Media.

is all the discarded pieces from butchers. It is the most likely pieces of meat to contain harmful bacteria such as E. coli They place this "left over junk" into a centrifruge to separate it from the fat, bones, grisel, knuckles, etc... Then they wash it in, well, you guessed it, pretty much "bleach" ok... That's enough for most sane people to understand that something is not quite right with "pink slime" Beyond that, It's absolutely against torah principles.

my dog doesn't care, he'll eat it

pink slime. Sebastian should drink some ammonia to see how healthful it is to consume. That will burn his esophagus and cause acidosis which can be fatal. But it is all right with him if children eat meat boiled in ammonia. Guess he and the Governors who approved of pink slime for school lunches hate children. After all, if the mothers won't abort their babies, kill them will vaccines and pink slime and GMO foods and other frankenfoods like irradiated fruits and vegetables to prolong the shelf life and milk with a chemical in it that causes ulcerative colitis to prolong the shelf life.

Yes, you are right. All meat, pink,red or white is slime, and detrimental to humans.

According to Wikipedia: "Ammonia is an important source of nitrogen for living systems… Ammonia also plays a role in both normal and abnormal animal physiology. Ammonia is biosynthesised through normal amino acid metabolism and is toxic in high concentrations. The liver converts ammonia to urea through a series of reactions known as the urea cycle… Ammonia is important for normal animal acid/base balance." In summary, ammonia is a natural substance in our body, and is toxic only in high concentration, as everything else. As Paracelsus said: “All substances are poisons; there is none which is not a poison. The right dose differentiates a poison and a remedy”. Ammonia is used to process the pink slime, and then it is washed away, so its concentration is much less than the toxic level for a toddler. Is it so difficult to check some background information before crying that ammonia will kill me? Please Rivkah, stop frightening people with lies.

red meat (kosher or not, pink slime or, lean "round ground"). They are all bad for you. Try soy burgers.

dying in the body that causes a lot of pain with just a teensy weensy bit of ammonia from parasites dying from anti-parasite medications. Boiling meat in ammonia puts a lot of toxin into the meat. The surface of the meat is washed, not the ground up meat that is saturated with it. Try drinking ammonia or just smelling it and see if you want to eat meat soaked in it that is rinsed off after boiling in ammonia that put it into all parts of the ground up meat or pink slime. It is the truth that frightens people. They don't need to be lied to. They just need to be told the truth which is what I do and what Dr. William Campbell Douglass II does as do a lot of other physicians who put their lives and livelihood and careers on the line to tell the truth. Scriptures says not to eat fat from meat, but boiling scraps in ammonia makes a pink slime full of fat. That is an unclean food to HaShem that you should not want children to eat.

"Them's fightin words"

which means a Frankenfood that is genetically modified that causes fertility problems. Three generations that eat non-fermented GMO soy results in permanent sterility for subsequent generations, whether people or animals. Soy in baby food is equal to as much estrogen daily as in on oral contraceptive and causes early puberty in females and small genitals in males. Soy is a toxic weed that kills insects and animals that eat it, but you want people to eat soy burgers. Soy also causes malaise and a lot of other problems. Ycch.

Three generations of sterility? There are a lot of soy products in Israel - all that non-dairy stuff. I bet the ultra religious use it in vast quantities, and their birth rate is not going down.

Kosher food is not always healthier in fact alot of it is highly processed and has a much higher fat content in many cases then non kosher. So sick of the morons to promote it as being healthier when there is absolutely no factual evidence to prove it

YNET did not publish. Briefly, look at artilces on soy by Dr. William Campbell Douglass II, Dr. Al Sears, and Jim Rutz and you will have a lot of information on the toxicity of soy and GMO-soy. All soy products should be taken off the market except for fermented non-GMO soy products.

While I think that some of your musings are rather off the wall, I couldn't agree more about staying away from soy, because of its influence on hormones (your other reasons sound bizarre), but that is very difficult in Israel. My daughter and I experienced that firsthand. We are both gluten and dairy intolerant (not just lactose) and do not eat meat or soy. We brought our own g-f crispbread, ate fish, hummus, veg and fruit, but to put it bluntly, we were crazed most of the time, as we never felt full.

That is done by reading the Holy Scriptures daily.

I have no problem feeling full spiritually. I am an atheist with ethics. I have read the Bible but I prefer non-fiction.

Pink slime is nasty and I sure wouldn't eat it, but for this food additive, which has been used safely for twenty years and is approved by the US Department of Agriculture, to be labeled a "toxin" is false, libellous, and panic mongering.