Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. McDonald's cheeseburger - Smith Collection/gado/Getty Images McDonald's made a startling announcement in 2012, stating it would no ...

An estimated 70 percent of the ground beef supply contains these lean bits of meat derived from muscle and connective tissue. The industry calls... Chances Are 'Pink Slime' Is In Grocery Store Beef, ...

WASHINGTON — After an uproar sparked by a Houston parent’s online petition, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Thursday backed off the federal school-lunch program’s use of “pink slime” in ...

Pink slime, that ammonia-treated concoction used in ground beef that has offended the sensibilities of so many people, might finally disappear. The Associated Press reports that three of four ...

(Reuters) - The top U.S. producer of ammonia-treated beef that critics called "pink slime" said on Monday it will close three of its four plants after sales dropped and did not recover following ...

When the pink slime fervor began, Beef Products Inc, the largest national producer of what it prefers to call Lean Finely Textured Beef, halted production at a few of its plants. They claimed that ...

To the legion of Americans running away from a hamburger additive as fast as a startled Angus, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is here to tell you: "It's beef, dude." Technically, he's right. The U.S.

WESTERN SPRINGS, Illinois (Reuters) - Behind the glass meat counter at Casey's Market in a Chicago suburb, the butchers pick up their blades and carry on a generations-old tradition. Piece by piece, ...

Fred Meyer is the latest store to announce it will no longer carry ground beef made with 'pink slime.' The decision came in response to customers concerns over recent reports concerning finely ...

Governor Rick Perry publicly endorsed “lean, finely textured beef” today. Governors from Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and the Lt. Gov. Matt Michels, standing in for South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard, who is ...