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So if I want to eat nice meat cuts ground up, without getting slime, what do I do?

In Canada, you can go to a local grocery store or meat shop and choose meat cuts and have them grind them for you on the spot.

In the US too, all major grocery stores in my area you can ask them to grind up a chuck roast or any cut of meat and they will. It costs a little more depending on the price of the cut you select.

Go to a grocery store or meat shop which does their own grinding. The pink slime processing is only economical at the hugest industrial scales. Anything processed at a smaller, more local scale won't have that.

My mom had a crank operated grinder that was mainly for making sausage but worked pretty well. Where it came from is relegated to the forgotten past.

> So if I want to eat nice meat cuts ground up, without getting slime, what do I do?

(1) buy a meat grinder, or

(2) go to a butcher (often even a grocery store butcher) that lets you select a cut and have it ground.

That's true even without the slime issue, because “ground beef” isn't coming from “nice cuts” with Abby particular consistency.

You want ground ${Specific-cut-name}

ground sirloin

ground chuck

ground round

etc.

Know your farmer.

Given how bad ground beef is for your health you're better off swapping it for ground chicken / quorn / lentils.

I've personally largely switched to veggie ingredients for Lasagne and Moussaka. That was for taste reasons too but the health benefits are a nice bonus ;)

I'm surprised that I'm getting so many downvotes for this post? Are people so scared by even the mention of eating a meal without meat?

I eat a healthy and well balanced diet and I honestly don't understand that way of thinking from my fellow carnivores.

It’s because “don’t eat ground beef” isn’t a useful answer to the question “how do I best select ground beef”. There may be very good reasons to swap it out for chicken and veg, but this isn’t the place to bring it up.

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