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Local farmers careful in choosing livestock processor

A gravel driveway and a parallel tree line box out a rectangular pasture filled with heirloom breed cattle and chickens at Blackbriar Farms in Oglethorpe County. In an adjacent field, Katahdin sheep graze under a wide tree canopy, lambs ducking under their mother’s belly as humans tromp rudely through their grassy living room.

Eventually, Leslie and John Lawson, operators of Blackbriar Farms, will truck their livestock to a processor outside of Augusta — an hour and a half journey — to the facility that will turn the animals into cross-cut shanks, briskets and numerous other cuts for farmers market shoppers and fine dining restaurants.

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So You Think You Know: Pink Slime Follow-Up

Is Pink Slime invading your home?

For those of you who read our previous post about pink slime in ground beef, we have some good news and some bad news.

First the good news: The USDA announced last week that schools will be allowed to choose whether or not to serve ground beef with pink slime beginning next fall. At the very least this opens the doors for concerned parents to lobby their local school districts to get pink slime off the menu. This also allows parents to know whether or not their child is consuming the nasty additive at school. It’s certainly a step in the right direction.

Now for the bad news: This move doesn’t help you at home. At all. The additive, a mixture of dog food grade beef trimmings that are treated with ammonia hydroxide, will still be allowed to show up in your store bought ground beef without being labeled. The USDA argues that since pink slime is still made of beef, it doesn’t have to be labeled as a separate ingredient.

Unfortunately, it’s not that easy to find out. If you go to your average grocery store, you’ll likely find two or more varieties of 80% lean ground beef. 80% lean ground beef can be made in one of two ways. The meat processor might take beef cuts that contain 20% fat, grind them up, and package them. Or the meat processor might take fattier cuts of meat and mix them with lean pink slime in order to create a product that is 80% lean.

Obviously, you want to buy the beef that is naturally lean, not the beef that has been made lean with the use of pink slime. But you can’t tell which is which just by looking. And in many cases, you can’t tell by reading the label either. You can ask your grocer, but there’s a pretty good chance that even they don’t know which products contain pink slime.

Here are some tips for buying safe and healthy ground beef for your family:

Don’t be fooled by the label “All Natural”. It’s true that products labeled “All Natural” are less likely to contain pink slime, but since this label is totally unregulated, there’s no way to know for sure.

Do look for “organic” beef. The label “organic” is regulated. No ground beef labeled “organic” will contain pink slime. Sure, it’s more expensive – but it doesn’t contain dog food.

Look for specific ground cuts instead of generic ground beef. If you buy ground chuck, the meat is chuck. If you buy ground sirloin, it’s sirloin. If you buy ground beef, the only thing you can know for sure is that the meat came from a cow. Well, it probably did.

Consider buying cuts of meats and having them ground (or grinding them yourself). Almost any butcher, including those at many grocery chains, will gladly grind a whole cut of meat for you. You can also grind the meat yourself using a food processor, hand powered meat grinder, or Kitchenaid mixer meat grinding attachment.

Ask your grocer whether their ground beef contains pink slime. They might know – they might not. It doesn’t hurt to ask.

And if you’re wondering whether the pink slime really does make a difference, consider this taste test. Not only is pink slime potentially harmful and certainly gross, it also makes the beef tasteless, adds an odd texture, and dries the meat out.