TIL in December 2018, lean finely textured beef(pink slime) was reclassified as "ground beef" by the Food Safety Service of the United States Department Of Agriculture. It is banned in Canada and EU.

@realitista@lemm.ee · edit-2 2 days ago

TIL in December 2018, lean finely textured beef(pink slime) was reclassified as "ground beef" by the Food Safety Service of the United States Department Of Agriculture. It is banned in Canada and EU.

@LilB0kChoy@midwest.social · 7 hours ago

Is it bugs? I bet it’s bugs.

Raltoid · 4 hours ago

The vast majority is synthesized. Often from a wood byproduct.

They were probably referring to the old “it’s made from beaver anuses” joke. Where in reality castoreum is extracted from an organ under skin near the tail. And is still used in very small amounts in some applications.

@pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip · 3 hours ago

Every time we have this clarification, I imagine a scientist in a lab coat holding a beaver up by the tail, and pointing out the spot near the anus, which is not the anus.

But to anyone standing near by, they’re still just effectively pointing out the beaver’s anus.

I get that the myth is wrong, but the reality isn’t enough better to be comforting.

@Madison420@lemmy.world · 7 hours ago

It used to be made from beaver “secretions” whatever that might mean, not anymore but still.

@piccolo@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 5 hours ago

You’re talking about Castroreum. Basically beaver “musk”. Which honesty not that weird. If you want weird, be weary of any deep red food that claims natural coloring

TIL in December 2018, lean finely textured beef(pink slime) was reclassified as "ground beef" by the Food Safety Service of the United States Department Of Agriculture. It is banned in Canada and EU.

TIL in December 2018, lean finely textured beef(pink slime) was reclassified as "ground beef" by the Food Safety Service of the United States Department Of Agriculture. It is banned in Canada and EU.

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