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Grocery Chain Reverses Course, Sort of, on Ground Beef Additive
An Iowa-based grocery store chain with locations in Galesburg says it's changing course again -- all in an effort to give customers what they say they want.

Des Moines-based Hy Vee says less than a week after announcing it would stop selling ground beef with a Lean Finely-Textured Beef additive that has been referred to by some as "pink slime" -- stores will instead keep selling such beef, alongside ground beef without the additive.

Hy-Vee spokesperson Ruth Comer tells WGIL the reason for the change in course a second time is the same as why they initially announced they'd stop selling LFTB.

"They told us that they wanted to purchase the product, they had confidence in it," Comer said. "(They) thought it was a good product for their family, and it supported jobs and economic development here in our trade area."

Part of the concern, Comer says, was jobs being lost in plants in Iowa and that part of the Midwest that process lean finely textured beef.

Comer says stores will have adequate signage and displays that will allow customers to know what they're buying. She expects the transition to take around a week or so.
03 30 12 by Newsroom
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