Lean Fine Textured Beef is Good!

You can add Finely Textured Lean Beef to that old list of things you don't want to watch being made. You know, hot dogs, sausage, Spam, and laws. However, with the possible exception of the last item, all are safe, taste good, and no one is making you digest them.

I Googled 'Jon Stewart slime' because I heard he had done a damning sketch on the LFTB debacle. I got a video of the comedian's put down of the maligned, but safe meat. That was no surprise, but what comes next was!

You just can't make up things like this! When I Googled "David Letterman slime," the first topic that came up was "President Bill Clinton appears on David Letterman show...!"

Lo and behold, and unfair to our First Lady, the fifth posting was "Michelle Obama visits David Letterman." Letterman apparently hadn't jumped (dumped) on the beef industry -- yet, or the slime reference would have been to meat.

You can always depend on the Leno, Letterman and Stewart types to kick a guy when they are down, for that is much of how they make their living. Unfortunately, some of what they say is repeated and accepted as fact by some of their followers.

Legionnaire's disease (Legionella); Mad Cow (BSE); Swine Flu (H1N1); and now Pink Slime (LFTB). To some degree all are unfair misrepresentations. The last three have negatively affected agri-business

This latest defaming of red meat isn't a case of a 'whistle blower.' No, Gerald Zirnstein, a disgruntled former USDA employee just doesn't like LFTB. "If that ammonia wasn't there, if it wasn't added to kill the bacteria, it would also come in as a gray product and you'd have gray slime," he said. "Gray slime!" He said that's his main complaint, and the reason he recommended against the product's use. He is the one who gave it the unsavory moniker which agribusiness cannot shed.

Somewhat related - Take that PETA! Khloe Kardashian is cutting off her support for PETA in the wake of her sister Kim's flour bombing at a perfume launch and charity event last week. With the loss of such an influential person, PETA is likely doomed.