Osler's Razor

I believe in food safety!
 

I'm with Anonymous "I believe in food safety!"
 

I also believe in food safety.
 

I believe that if I'm going to eat meat, I'd prefer it to be meat rather than pink slime.
The solution is simple: if you are going to eat meat, develop a relationship with a family-operated farm and get your meat from them. (Happy to share my recommendations in the Twin Cities area.)
 

I’m pretty sure pink slime has been examined by the food safety police and passed the test, but just because it doesn’t kill you doesn’t mean it’s good for you. Eating humanely treated meat from a local farm is ideal, not just because the product is by far superior but also because it’s so expensive you’ll eat a whole lot less of it (which is probably good for you). That being said, not everybody has access to “ideal” and even if they did they may have a financial mental block, but every supermarket has a guy who portions the meat into those Styrofoam packets and you can always buy a few and have him grind them for you (I won’t apologize on specific gender assignment for the butcher…haven’t yet met a woman butcher). You’d end up with a perfectly palatable burger, pink slime/gross free, your grocery budget intact and your immune system intact too… if you’re one of those allergic to “food snobbery” (even if often times being a food snob is good for you in the long run).
 

I'm AGAINST food safety.
 

Of course you are RRL, after all what is the bottom line for living well and staying healthy? Old age! Who in their right mind looks forward to the indignities inherent to old age?
 

For a discussion beyond pink slime, watch Food, Inc. and read some of Michael Pollan's work. Fascinating, disgusting, informative ... kind of like the Razor.
 

It's kind of scary that RRL is the only person on the Razor (well, him and Woody) who actually owns a business that serves "food."
 

Does Guiness count as "food?"

MORE PINK SLIME FOR ME PLEASE!
 

I grow food for personal consumption and when I can or preserve it there is no pink slime involved.

To Marta - years ago I had a woman butcher a local small grocery. It is a rarity. I got over that financial mental block a long time ago, but then we cook for 3 (us and my M-in-L so it is easier.

And Susan - you have a very valid point one I attempt to adhere to.
 

Clancy's here in Minneapolis is my favorite butcher shop-- and is often only women butchers, or three women and one guy.
 

everything RRL said, i second. i'll be perfectly honest, if mcdonald's or whataburger or whoever has been putting pink slime in my burgers since my youth, i must say it tastes delicious.
pork rinds, on the other hand, now there's a real culinary problem.
 

I have to say a woman attacking a cow carcass has to be some impressive sight, if not eternally scarring.