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    Is it safe to eat?

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Well they're just not pink slime for now you know this was an attempt to persuade.

Grossed out consumers and grocery stores.

That what critics call things line in the industry calls -- at finely textured beef is safe and good and nutritious.

The governors came they saw and they -- all the prove their point to the public saying that some detractors.

-- been calling the lean beef trim pink slime are simply using a bad nickname that should be ignored.

At a governors of Kansas Texas and Iowa along with the lieutenant governors of Nebraska and South Dakota.

To this tour of the beef products incorporated plant in Nebraska yesterday the main producer of the beef product.

Examining the -- containing -- and later downing hamburgers made with the product to help sway consumers to come back to buying a product made from the fatty bits of meat left over from those other cuts.

-- -- guys lean beef has reportedly been apart nearly twenty million meals per year used in America's fast food.

School lunches and 70% of all ground beef sold at grocery stores rather.

And this backlash has been -- to affect some of the workers flatley has apparently right yeah in -- it certainly could have a long term effect here all the negative press is forced PPI to suspend operations at three of its four.

Plant something the governor say they hope they can fix before too much revenue for this industry slopes away.