03.22.12
Tombstone of Beef Products, Inc, comes into view
So far this week Kroger and SafeWay, two of the nation’s biggest supermarket chains (I shop at Ralphs in Pasadena, a Kroger property), have forsworn Beef Products, Inc’s pink slime.
Supermarket chains Kroger Co. and Stop & Shop said Thursday they will join the growing list of store chains that will no longer sell beef that includes an additive with the unappetizing moniker “pink slime.”
The chains joined Safeway, Supervalu and Food Lion, among others, who have said they won’t sell beef with the filler.
“Our customers have expressed their concerns that the use of lean finely textured beef — while fully approved by the USDA for safety and quality — is something they do not want in their ground beef,” Kroger said in a statement. “As a result, Kroger will no longer purchase ground beef containing lean finely textured beef.”
As a result one would expect the company of Eldon Roth to shortly be in ruins. Unless it can maintain a niche selling pink slime into prison cafeterias, to pet manufacturers, or to the base kitchens serving US military men overseas.
Unsurprisingly, Beef Products’ website shows no indication of the landslide of lousy news re pink slime.
There are others, like Wal-Mart, which have still not eschewed the purchase of pink slime. Corporate America, however, is not particularly ballsy when it comes to going against widespread consumer revulsion.
And the image of finely textured beef — pink slime — is now forever repugnant.