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 ...

Pink slime made the news several years ago as it pulled back the curtain on what actually is in fast food products. While ...

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 ...

The microbiologist who coined the term for lean finely textured beef ran through a few iterations in his head before he decided to send an email about the filler to a co-worker at the U.S. Department ...