What was the uproar over LFTB warranted, given the fact that it is a product deemed safe for consumption by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration?
In the early 1900s, Eldon Roth figures out a way to profit from slaughterhouse meat trimmings, by-products that were once only used in pet food and cooking oil. This cheap and safe beef product is called lean, finely textured beef (LFTB). The fatty bits of beef and heated with a puff of ammonium hydroxide gas …