Beef Industry is Preparing for The loss of "Pink Mud"

Beef Industry is Preparing for The loss of "Pink Mud": Announcement on Monday Beef Products International (BPI), which would close three plants, one in Waterloo, which are "textured beef," which has views of social media, beef industry has to wonder what affect the loss of low-fat beef products will be on Beef prices have already risen by 10 percent to 20 percent last year.

BPI buys pruning or cutting tips sealed packaging process, and, in fact, loads of up to 15 percent of the total production of ground beef. This process was approved by the Administration of the Food and Drug Administration in 1990 and barely raised an eyebrow until last week, when the viral social media have in their image as "pink slime".

The name was given to the U.S. Department of the agent, but agriculture is removed, because the jobs Food Network chef Jamie Oliver, who, along with others available on YouTube and other social media.

In traditional media, ABC News published a series of reports earlier this month, which are widely distributed "pink slime" nickname.

"It shows the influence of social networks," said Kevin Concannon, a former director of the Iowa Department of Human Services, and now the deputy for the food service, supply and consumption. "There is absolutely no evidence that this product is dangerous, and it's low fat."

Like most treatments for meat production "textured beef" is not very appetizing to look at. It consists of taking the remains of the meat cutting process, it works in the heat and centrifuges, and then give him a bath in ammonia to kill E. coli and salmonella potential.

Products that contain mucus pink fresh ground beef include retail, low-fat hot dogs, luncheon meats, beef sticks, pepperoni, frozen meals, cakes and preserves.

By e-mail from a former USDA microbiologist Gerald Zirnstein, that relates to a textured meat "pink slime" was shown in various media, including ABC News.

Online petition drive in Houston collected more than 250,000 signatures demanding that the goods removed from the outlets and school lunch programs.

The game asked USDA to tell school districts they can eliminate the use of beef stuffed with them if they want in their USDA-monitoring school feeding programs.

Supermarket chains, the most important, including West Des Moines, Iowa-based Vee Well, today announced that they will stop selling beef, which is responsible textured dirt / pink. McDonald is a fast-food and other manufacturers.

Beef industry has responded on Monday, highlighting the impact of job loss.

"Although the textured vegetable beef has been given a catchy name and clever in the" pink slime "alarming impact of emissions on the product beef is safe, Jamie Oliver, ABC News and others, is no joke for those families who are currently without a job" , said American Meat Institute President J. Patrick Boyle in a written statement.

What remains to be determined is the impact on beef prices. The history of the pink slime attack cattle and beef market, when prices began to soften from record of all time.

Cattle and beef prices rose last year because of the cattle, even at the lowest level since 1952, have been hit hard by drought last year in large pastures of Texas and Oklahoma.

Combined with the sharp increase in exports of the United States, as well as cattle prices rose 25 percent to record levels in late 2011 and early this year. As a result, the growth of retail prices for burgers as much as 20 percent last year, according to research by the USDA.

Commodities trader Dennis Smith, Archer Financial Services in Chicago Monday suggested that the reduction in use will enhance the finish delivers even stronger.

"Consumer belt pink slime in history, seems to have a greater impact than I expected," Smith said Monday. "It seems that catering orders fell dramatically due to increased consumption."

Smith added: "Stories like this will do the same thing, over time it will increase supplies tight and driving the price of beef on the rise."

If so, what would the opposite of what was a small gradual decline in beef prices in the last month due to the fact that Smith and other Traders said increased consumer resistance to higher prices for beef.

The report of the U.S. Department of Agriculture beef fat each day showed the average price of a box of beef, $ 186.25 per hundredweight on Monday, compared with $ 191.74 last week at this time.

Recent data suggest livestock U.S. Department of Agriculture Marketing Information Center, which beef cattle were running 4.4 percent below a year earlier in the week ending last Saturday. "The beef trim" costs that go into the mud additive beef / textured pink, dropped in price by 19 percent, as meat processors have begun to reduce their purchases.