On 2014-04-24 22:55:14 +0000, Michel Boucher said:

> Oregonian Haruspex > wrote in
>
> ternal-september.org:
>
>> I almost never eat ground beef. It is likely to be garbage
>> meat, and there is no reliable way to determine if I am eating
>> pink slime or not. Too risky.
>
> You can buy a piece of round at a butcher shop and ask them to
> grind it for you.

When I do eat ground beef it is obtained from a reputable butcher and I
know the exact ranch it comes from. But I find that, if I am in the
mood for beef, it is usually in the form of a steak, oxtail, roast, or
liver.