<p>Texas Gov. Rick Perry eats a hamburger which contains the beef product known as pink slime or lean finely textured beef following a news conference in South Sioux City, Neb., Thursday. Earlier, the governors of Nebraska and South Dakota toured the Beef Products Inc. plant where the product is made to show their support for the company and the several thousand jobs it creates in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota and Texas.</p>

March 30, 2012