USDA buys pink slime for schools

[waytoogood]

http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/seven-million-tons-822 0-pink-slime-8221-beef-180500764.html

Read this article. See how it says the USDA purchased it? The article says it could be sold to schools, but who am I to say this isn't the typical yahoo psychobabble story? I did some research on my own on this. I went to

http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome

I moved the mouse over topics and followed the "Food Safety" link. From there, I went to the left side of the page and clicked "Food Distribution". I then clicked the "Schools/Child Nutrition (CN) Commodity Program" link and was led to yet another page, where there were even more links. Running in circles, maybe? I then clicked the "Foods Available" link and was stonewalled the first few times I tried to access it. Eventually I got to the page and was disgusted by what I saw. This page might explain to you what in the name of Batman irradiated beef is, because I couldn't help but wonder.

http://www.americangrassfedbeef.com/irradiated-beef.asp

Your opinion on this is your own, whether my statement is in your words good or bad. I do appreciate feedback, but please follow these links and follow the trail before you pass judgement.

[DeliciousW]

The corporations that are under contract to supply food to these schools cut corners all the time regardless of who suffers, and they have enough lobbyists in Washington to make sure it's all kept legal. It's same shit, different day. Guarantee these guys are the same ones who got congress to agree that pizza is a vegetable.

[ZJ]

At 1 hour ago, DeliciousW wrote: Guarantee these guys are the same ones who got congress to agree that pizza is a vegetable.

According to Reagen, Ketchup is also a vegetable.

But seriously, this really doesn't surprise me. Schools have always had to follow bullshit regulations and the like when it comes to what they serve in the cafeteria. By allowing politicians to have that much influence in what young people eat, we've more or less guaranteed that crap like this will happen on a fairly regular basis.

[Camarohusky]

We bitch about this, and yet bologna is still a hot seller for kids...

[Ericho]

I remember watching that video where Jamie Oliver was talking about that. I actually probably knew that, because I have noticed a few strange things show up in the chicken nuggets at my school. I asked what they were, and I was told they were parts of the chicken that were not entirely put down to their meat form, like intestines. And I thought it was a joke in that thing on "Madtv" where they said that school cafeterias take parts of the animal no one else wants to make their meat.

[DragonPunch]

This is why we should ban processed pink slime. Mc'Donald's stopped selling it, and so has Taco Bell.

[bismuthfeldspar]

omg, I'm not a vegetarian but I've often thought about not eating meat just because of stuff like this, or maybe I'll stick to frozen chops and fish

[LordJaric]

It amazes me how people are getting so worked up over ground beef. People have been eating the stuff for god knows how long, but call it pink slime and suddenly everyone gets worked up over it. What's next, calling ground pork brown slime.

[Camarohusky]

At 4/24/12 09:49 PM, LordJaric wrote: It amazes me how people are getting so worked up over ground beef. People have been eating the stuff for god knows how long, but call it pink slime and suddenly everyone gets worked up over it. What's next, calling ground pork brown slime.

I know. People seem to forget that the fanciest sausages are made of the same non-meat trimmings. That stuff is gourmet, yet pink slime is gross? Please.

[stinkychops]

Pack your kids lunch then.

[All-American-Badass]

At 4/29/12 07:19 AM, stinkychops wrote: Pack your kids lunch then.

That's already not becoming an option at some places.

[bismuthfeldspar]

Not sure why people are blaming capitalism. It was private citizens who revealed the existence of pink slime, not the government who only collude in trying to promote this low quality food.

[thegarbear14]

At 4/24/12 09:49 PM, LordJaric wrote: It amazes me how people are getting so worked up over ground beef. People have been eating the stuff for god knows how long, but call it pink slime and suddenly everyone gets worked up over it. What's next, calling ground pork brown slime.

organ meat isn't too bad if it is prepared well but the cafeterias probably cannot do that....and also all the processing they do to the stuff they put in them is fucking gross.

[stinkychops]

At 4/29/12 10:05 AM, All-American-Badass wrote:

At 4/29/12 07:19 AM, stinkychops wrote: Pack your kids lunch then.

That's already not becoming an option at some places.

Jesus christ, who do these people think they are?

[Camarohusky]

This whole pink slime thing has been way overblown. I say I have to agree with the dope governor who aid it was a smear campaign.

The ingredients in pink slime are much better than those in regular hot dogs, yet we stuff our kids' faces with oscar meyer all the time. Some hipster, Whole-Foods, vaccines cause lepracy, idiot decided to hop on this and claim ti was terrible, when in fact the reason pink slime was originally derided was because it lacked nutritional value, not because it was nasty.

So many meat products we glady serve to our kids are markedly worse than pink slime. Bologna, fancy sausage, hot dogs, and so on.

[Iron-Hampster]

In Canada we have private sector working in our school cafeteria as well as public sector, we didn't have to worry so much about this.

now there's an idea, privatize your school's cafeteria, save money, and your students eat better, it is win win.

[X-Gary-Gigax-X]

At 3/10/12 05:01 AM, DeliciousW wrote: It's same shit, different day.

Just like your statement? xD lol as predictable as the sun rising. It's the evil corporations faults! Lobbyists!