A finely textured beef product that critics dubbed “pink slime,” can now legally be classified as ground beef, WGBH reports. In 2012, ABC News aired an exposé that first introduced “pink slime” to the ...

This week, Columbia’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Floodlight, and ProPublica copublished an investigation: “Fossil fuel interests are working to kill solar in one Ohio county. The hometown ...

Remember the great “pink slime” panic of 2012? Well, it’s back—both pink slime and the ridiculous panic surrounding it. Finely textured beef (or “pink slime”) is essentially just beef that’s been ...

What is ‘pink slime’ journalism? “Pink slime” journalism is named after a meat byproduct and describes outlets that publish poor quality reports that appear to be local news. In the past decade, many ...

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A U.S. government agency has regulated that a processed beef product made from slaughterhouse trimmings — known as "pink slime" — can be legally classified as ground beef. The product was the focus of ...

Five weeks before the Internet went mad over the presence of “pink slime” in ground beef across the U.S., the product’s creator was being inducted into the Nebraska Business Hall of Fame. It was Feb.

In this March 29, 2012 file photo, the beef product known as lean finely textured beef, or "pink slime," is displayed during a plant tour of Beef Products Inc. in South Sioux City, Neb., where the ...

“Pink slime,” a food additive made from spare beef trimmings that’s treated with ammonium hydroxide to kill off E. coli, salmonella and other possible bacteria, continues to rear its slimy head. Last ...