Which Grocery Stores Sell Pink Slime?

Official Store Comments

Albertsons: In general, the bulk meat at our Butcher Block is ground fresh in the store. Additionally, you can always check with your local store’s meat department for assistance in identifying our in-store ground beef.

BJ’s: At BJ’s, we have decided to eliminate ground beef products that contain boneless lean beef trimmings (BLBT) or lean finely textured beef (LFTB), which has been called “pink slime” in recent media reports. Beginning April 7, BJ’s will only offer fresh ground meet that is BLBT or LFTB free. BLBT or LFTB free frozen ground beef will be available by April 20. As always, BJ’s will continue to offer fresh all-natural NatureSource ground beef and frozen Earth’s Pride ground beef which are and have always been BLBT and LFTB free.

Food Lion: Food Lion does not add lean finely textured beef (LFTB) to the ground beef we produce in our stores.

Kroger: The Kroger Co. regarding pink slime in our beef. The Kroger Co does not use transglutaminase (currently nicknamed “meat glue”) or trimmings (currently nicknamed “pink slime”) in any of its meat or poultry products per our Kroger Co Corporate Food Technology Senior Scientists.

The ground beef you find at your local Kroger has been purchased from USDA-approved suppliers who are required to follow all federal guidelines during the production of ground beef to ensure food safety and quality. (In other words, Kroger's may not use pink slime in their store ground meat, but other meat sold in their store may contain it).

Price Chopper: Price Chopper does not buy, use or sell any fresh ground beef that has been ammoniated; nor do we employ FLTB or BLBT as fillers for our fresh ground beef. We have one main beef supplier whose meat we grind fresh in-store several times daily – JBS Swift. We have documentation from JBS Swift that the fresh beef we purchase from them to grind in our stores does not include ammoniated product, FLTB or BLBT. As a point of interest, suppliers of our frozen ground beef patties have also confirmed that they do not incorporate ‘pink slime’ into the products that we purchase from them.

Publix: According to our Corporate Purchase Department, we do not use finely textured beef (pink slime) in our fresh ground beef. Our written spec specifically calls out that it is not approved for our product.

most of the stuff in the plastic tubs with plastic wrap on top and almost all the stuff in tubes have it. If it's pre-packaged there's a good chance that it's got the slime. The stores by me also sell stuff that they grind-in house. That stuff doesn't have it.

ground and packaged by store good . . . ground and packaged in a factory bad. . .

Gross!!!! Ick!!!! Ewwww!!!!

I buy meat from a local butcher shop thank God.

MMMMM i love me pink slime! Gives it the flavor!

Oh one other thing. It's not just the packages of ground beef. Most of the frozen stuff with ground beef has the good 'ol slime in it (frozen meatballs, burritos, etc).

just shut up

one star from the pink slime lover

Whoa! Now that is gross! :(

McDonalds and most of the fast hamburger joints have it in there meat, its a filler and that way they can sell there hambugers cheap. When you eat out you never know what ou are eatting or how long it has sat out of the freg

What exactly is the pink slime and is it bad for you? The name "pink slime" sounds terrible but that doesn't necessarily mean it's bad for our health.

don't forget your chicken nuggets...same ingredients only with chix meat.

oh..btw, most schools use it so if your child is buying lunch than there is a good possibility that they've eaten quite a bit of it.

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You're probably correct. I bought some chopped beef from one of the discount type grocery stores and noticed something odd about it. I left it, unfrozen in the fridge and it got pushed toward the back, so I kind of lost track of it for about 10 days. It should have stared to discolor, but it didn't. I tossed it and never bought it again. It was also pre-packaged. Yuck.

Believe it or not earlier posters are wrong about mc donalds. They announced that they were removing all beef with pink slime awhile back and announced that all such beef is out of their distribution network (as of last aug or something like that)

And chicken doesn't have a pink slime equivalent. While some of the stuff in nuggets is pretty gross it isn't treated with ammonia based products to kill bacteria.

It's People! Pink Slime is made out of people!

i reead that a lot of the 80% lean meat does have it.....go for 90+ if you must.

From the video, "Its beef. It is on the label, the label say beef."

Well, hag, does the label say "Ammonia gas"? Because that's in the beef too.

WTF is wrong with people?

It's not a filler you freaking idiot, pink slime is a very small amount (not that I want any at all). Filler is something else to make the burgers stretch if need be. oi!

I don't believe for one second kroger doesn't have it in their meat. It's the worst I've ever had. My mom buys it and I routinely have to return it for her. The Krap in the tubes is the worst. 2 out of every 4 or 5 times she buys it, it's old, solid at one end.

Steaks cut so one end is 1/4" thick, the other 1 inch. How are you supposed to cook that? One end burns, the other isn't even done yet.

I've seen blue and green stuff in their hamburger too. Whole chinks of it. Kroger disgusts me. Their store brand food is awful. No flavor at all. I did a taste test with her friends with sharp cheddar, mild, swiss, monterey jack and nobody could tell the difference. All just fatty stuff with different names.

Hate that damn place.

Correct!!
And most shoppers dont even know that that tube meat is shipped in and if u have ever bought the supposed 95% lean ground chuck tube meat u will notice it has more fat in it than the stores home cheap ground meat has in it.

What? Yes, it is filler. It is added to the beef to get more volume. You see it is a CHEAPER product than ground beef. Need a one pound burger? Use 75% ground beef and 25% pink slime, the seller just saved X amount of dollars. Oi!

This is why I only eat squirrel.

Current yes but, "They've" been, Solentgreenin' us for quite some time.
Here on the west coast of America we're being nuked.

Liar. It's a proven fact that people who only eat squirrel, can not spell squirrel.

You caught me. I do have possum on special occasions.

Taste like chicken?

This I believe, because it's spelled opossum.

Let me guess, 5'3" 230 pounds. Right?

lies, i bet kroger has it going on in their stuff right now..

lets get some testing done worldwide