Category: J.M. Hirsch

What I've been trying to figure out, since the processed beef  "pink slime" story broke this month is this: Are we just reacting to what Benjamin Radford at Discovery News calls "the ick factor"? Or does pink slime (which the industry understandably prefers to call "lean finely textured beef") actually pose a health risk? And does anything in the flurry of recent coverage help us sort that out?

I know, I know, two beef-related posts from me in the last week; didn't I just wrap up that red meat story analysis? And  I promise to shortly move on to other issues. But I still...