![]() It’s cheap to produce and low in fat, but it can smell and taste “off,” and the very fact of it is nasty. ![]() The resultant gunk is treated with gaseous ammonia to ensure that it’s not a habitat for E. ![]() Pink slime is a hamburger-meat extender produced by taking the trimmings from the outermost part of a cow - once thought to be too fatty and too prone to contamination for human consumption, better suited to making pet food and candles - and whirling these trimmings in a centrifuge to separate the protein from the fat. Moss’s gift to posterity is the phrase “pink slime,” which he popularized in a 2009 New York Times article as part of a series on beef safety that won him a Pulitzer Prize. ![]() Michael Moss, a dogged investigative reporter who neither scolds nor proselytizes, is here for them. But there is a much larger segment of America whose members heedlessly eat processed foods that make them overweight and unwell. Mostly plants”) or more vituperatively by a Mark Bittman (“In the time it takes to go into a McDonald’s, stand in line, order, wait, pay and leave, you could make oatmeal for four while taking your vitamins, brushing your teeth and half-unloading the dishwasher”). There is a certain enlightened segment of America that relishes a good gastro-scolding, whether delivered gently by a Michael Pollan (“Eat food. ![]()
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