pink slime
“Pink slime” lawsuit worth $5.7 billion could change journalism
A multibillion-dollar court battle is raging in a small South Dakota town between a former heavyweight meat producer and one of TV’s Big Three networks.
Beef Company Begins Billion-Dollar 'Pink Slime’ Court Case Against ABC News
Five years ago, the news network popularized the term “pink slime” and forever changed the way we look at cheap burgers.
Beef Industry Is Suing ABC for Billions Over Use of Term ‘Pink Slime’
The term creeped the hell out of consumers when an ABC News report popularized it in 2012.
Meatballs Are Now Just Called 'Balls' in Finland
A Finnish food giant has decided that the lower-quality protein used to make its meatballs doesn't qualify as meat. The company's solution was to drop the "meat" prefix from the product—leaving us with simply "balls."
With Lo-Tech Pink Slime Gone, Where’s the Synthetic Beef?
If pink slime is any indicator, people _really_ don't like hyper-processed meat. Still, lean finely textured beef (as 'pink slime' is known in the industry) is an example of high-tech processing being put to use to "feed the masses":http://boingboing...