Ah pink slim. Let’s stop thinking
about this item from the stand point of a consumer or parent with a child in
school. Let’s instead look at pink slime from the aspect of the producers.
First
the producers are looking to make enough money from their product to pay for
the supplies, resources, and the labor to create the product. They also need to
have enough after all of those costs are covered to pay themselves.
It is
well known that if a leader has to make decisions that affect a large group of
people someone will not like the decision made. Look at the history of industry
of beef, early companies would get protests from the public that they were
throwing away too much meat. The solution was to give the scraps to the dog
food industry. This allowed for more of the cow to get used. However, the
public still complained that the dog food companies were getting to much of the
good meat. the beef industry realized that in order to get all the meat they
were going to have to engineer a way to get all the meat separated from the
fat. This process is where we get the pink slim.
Now the
health aware public is protesting once again. The companies are going to have
to develop another method to remove the editable meat from the non editable
fat. This will cost more for the science to develop. There are people who ask
why the companies don’t just send the extra back to the dog food companies. The
answer is because there is fear that the public will again protest about the
loss of the good meat.
It is
said that Big business is greedy, that is not a proper statement. The true
statement is people are greedy. They compare what they are paying for beef, and
how much beef comes off the cow. The public either wants more meat for the
price, or lower price for the meat they get. Big business does everything they
can to meet that demand. However, they do not want to spend a lot for it would
raise the price the consumer has to pay.
