Noisy ignorance wins another one

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April 7, 2012 - 12:00 AM

As Juliet said, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose would smell as sweet by any other name.”

So, for economy’s sake, call it almost anything but “pink slime.” Even “lean, finely textured beef” has a made-up quality to it that is off-putting.

This column, therefore, votes for “beef.”

That is what it is, after all. Beef Products Inc. and other meat processors take beef scraps, heat it, whirl it around to move the fat away from the protein, pack the protein into blocks, freeze it and wind up with a sterile product that can be added to ground beef and be sold at a lower price. 

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