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I recently saw that they now offer ground beef with less fat at our local supermarket. I assumed that they just put less of the fatty bits inside. Now, I don't live in the US, and I don't know what regulations in Europe say about ground beef, but it does make me hesitate: I absolutely wouldn't have bought the meat if I knew they added pink slime to it to make it less fatty. I'd just buy the fatty ground beef instead.

The problem is not that it shouldn't be allowed -- it just shouldn't pretend to be something it's not.

I literally did not know that the pre-packaged ground meat is different from the ground meat you get at the butcher.




Europe (and Australia) have much higher food standards than the US.


Europe doesn’t allow pink slime. Any meat product requiring it to be disinfected because of potential fecal contamination will not fly in EU.




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