SpiroFlo looks at which grocery stores are selling ground beef containing the controversial pink slime additive.
Although McDonald’s agreed to stop using the creep-tastic pink slime in their products (and it’s not the first time they’ve tipped the scale for fast food change), The Daily recently released a list of grocery stores that do or do not use pink slime:
These are among the stores that say they do not sell meat with pink slime:
- Safeway
- A&P
- Whole Foods
- Costco
- Publix
- H-E-B
- Waldbaum’s
- Price Chopper
These are among the stores that do not sell pink slime in store-ground meat, but sell pre-packaged ground beef from suppliers that may contain pink slime:
- Jewel-Osco
- Kroger
- Food Lion
- Winco
- Fred Meyer
These are among the stores that sell store-ground meat with pink slime:
- Target
- BJ’s
- Hy-Vee
- Walmart
- Albertsons
- Stop & Shop
- Zaycon Foods
More on this list here.
Looks like schools can opt out of pink slime soon, too. Makes sense. I expect fast food to be terrible for me (and occasionally delicious if it’s 3 AM and I haven’t eaten in a while), but kids and people cooking at home should get to opt out. Of course, if you’re all for fast food reform — when the problem is really that fast food isn’t fixable — you’re probably happy that drinking 1000 cans of soda a day won’t give you cancer any more.
Although several grocery stores are planning on scaling back the use of pink slime, as of March 2012, 70% of ground beef sold in U.S. grocery stores contained unlabeled pink slime. I expect this list to look a lot different six months from now.
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Colin McKay Miller is the Marketing Manager for the SpiroFlo Holdings group of companies:
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The whole thing is made out of pink slime if you ask me.
Yeah, the food industry hasn’t gotten worse, per se, we just know more about it these days, especially as the spotlight beams down on a particular issue (some people have complained about pink slime for the last decade — the term “pink slime” was first coined as a criticism in 2002).