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Subscribe to RSS“Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad called Monday for a congressional investigation into how what he called ‘a smear campaign’ against the meat product commonly called ‘pink slime’ got started,” the New York Daily News writes. "‘We have a smear campaign going on against a product that is healthy and safe,’ Branstad said at his weekly news conference. ‘If they get by with this, what other food products are they going to attack next?’ … ‘It's clear this is a safe product. It's a lean product, it helps reduce obesity and there is a spurious attack being levied against it by some groups. You can suspect who they might be. They are people who do not like meat. … He also called on students at agricultural colleges in Iowa to use their social media skills ‘to counter what Hollywood and the media elites and the people who are spreading this misinformation are doing. It's their future that's being threatened by this.’”
More: “Reports over weekend showed that Beef Products' top executives and workers have given $820,750 to congressional and presidential candidates over the past decade, with all but $28,400 going to Republicans. Branstad, a Republican, received $150,000 over the past two years from people tied to Beef Products, his spokesman Tim Albrecht said Monday.” Branstad, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, South Dakota Lt. Gov. Matt Michels, and Nebraska Lt. Gov. Rick Sheehy toured a plant in Nebraska where the product is made March 29.
The Atlantic yesterday looked at the dilemma when it comes to “lean, finely textured beef” aka "boneless lean beef trimmings.”
MASSACHUSETTS: Scott Brown has to be happy with this Boston Globe headline: “President Obama signs insider trading bill championed by Senator Scott Brown.”
NEW YORK: Not surprisingly, Romney leads by a big margin in New York.
OHIO: Ohio Republicans’ state party problems continue.
WISCONSIN: Scott Walker (R), in a recall fight to save his job, is the latest to invoke God’s hand.
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Pink slime and Walker in the same thread ... so much for my appetite today.
Dear Governor Branstad,
I understand that "pink slime" may not be a big deal to you considering your state fair was the one serving "fried butter", but as for the rest of us, we're kind of partial to what part of the cow we're eating. I think most of us out here will agree that "lips and a**holes" were not the parts we signed up for. Have a nice day!
pink slime and politicians seem like a perfect match: neither is real or good for you
LOL
Is this really going to be another Republican/Democrat issue?
really, govenor? a filler? they already grind the bones and put them into fast food burgers, isn't that enough.
heres my question how can anyone out there eat anything soaked in ammonia? EGAD!
I think that our gourmet governor of Iowa has displayed such a capacity for delivering delightfully embellished one-liners about pink slime that he should henceforth be known as Terrance O’Branstad, and that Holy Week forever more be Holy Cow Week.
Have you ever in your life had so much fun on the eve of Good Friday? As a faithful Irish Catholic, I want to tell you, O’B’s comments on “Lean (but not mean), Highly Textured Beef” eclipses every good story that I have ever heard at any wake that I have ever merrily attended---talk about a prodigious capacity to improve on the truth, would you believe it?
If himself is going to next go on Saturday Night live to kiss the blarney stone, maybe the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame would let him borough to wear their leprechaun of mascot’s green outfit---he could put up his dukes and say, “I’m a fightin’ for pink slime.”
If one has ever worked in or toured what use to be called a slaughter house, or just read Upton Sinclair’s muckraking novel, "The Jungle," he or she might think of some very descriptive names for what gets ground up and put into what needs to get well ammoniated before it is sent out to be consumed.
In pursuit of his own muckraking, out leading Iowa citizen says he wants a congressional inquiry into what prompted complaints about a meat product that some call "pink slime," And after the governor’s promotion of how much better PS is than prime meat (PM), it sounds like schools out to throw out the ground beef and only feed the kids the filler---this ought to also help employment numbers in factories that make old-fashioned hamburger helper.
This promotion of PS over PM gives an imaginative conservative twist to “throwing out the baby with the bath water.” Throw out the baby and drink the bath water.
Pink slime is perfectly safe!?!?!?!? Yea, right. I have seen how that stuff is made. I wouldn't even eat it with YOUR mouth Brandstad. How about you PROVE how safe it is by eating a big heaping plateful on national television?