I can't get all that worked up about "pink slime". Despite what Jamie Oliver says, they don't dunk it in liquid ammonia. There's no evidence of any safety concerns. It's not even particularly "yucky" parts of the cow (it's just standard muscle tissue, aka meat, that's been separated from fat). *shrug* No more or less unsettling to me than any other part of the slaughtering/butchering process. Yeah, it passes through some ammonia gas. So? There's trace amounts of ammonia gas in the air you breathe daily. Is there any evidence that the ammonia gas is somehow in the meat, and bad for you? Nope.
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