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Pink Slime invades school kids lunches
« on: March 09, 2012, 10:47:03 am »
McDonald's and Taco Bell have banned it, but now the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is buying 7 million pounds of beef containing ammonium hydroxide-treated ground connective tissue and meat scraps and serving it up to America's school kids. If you thought cafeteria food was gross beforeā€¦.

"Pink slime," which is officially called "Lean Beef Trimmings," is banned for human consumption in the United Kingdom. It is commonly used in dog and chicken food. Celebrity chef and safe food advocate Jamie Oliver featured the substance and called for its ban on the April 12, 2011 episode of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, which may have influenced McDonald's to stop using beef patties containing the filler.

Some food advocates are asking for meat containing "pink slime" to be labeled. It's used in about 70% of ground beef in the US. "We don't know which districts are receiving what meat, and this meat isn't labeled to show pink slime. They don't have to under federal law," Bettina Siegal, a writer and mother of two who created TheLunchTray.com told NBC.

http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/seven-million-tons-8220-pink-slime-8221-beef-180500764.html

I would think of fast food industries of all places decided to ban it, that says something right there.  This stuff can't be good for the kids.
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Re: Pink Slime invades school kids lunches
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2012, 11:11:41 am »
Capitalists got to make money.

yeah, we should keep kids from watching porn and learning about the homosex agenda, but they can eat this crap if they want. If they want healthy foods, they should have been homeschooled. </dumby>
I'd be more sympathetic if people here didn't act like they knew what they were saying when they were saying something very much wrong.

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Re: Pink Slime invades school kids lunches
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2012, 12:47:50 pm »
Why the hell are chickens being feed this shit??

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Re: Pink Slime invades school kids lunches
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2012, 02:05:44 pm »
It's an often-cited statistic that most of the meat served in school lunches is one grade below McDonald's and one grade above dog food.

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Re: Pink Slime invades school kids lunches
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2012, 04:01:46 pm »
My advice to the suppliers is to come up with a more appealing name.
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Re: Pink Slime invades school kids lunches
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2012, 04:09:24 pm »
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Re: Pink Slime invades school kids lunches
« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2012, 04:40:36 pm »
It's an often-cited statistic that most of the meat served in school lunches is one grade below McDonald's and one grade above dog food.

That must be bad. Mcdonalds barely qualifies as food.

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Re: Pink Slime invades school kids lunches
« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2012, 04:42:21 pm »
It's an often-cited statistic that most of the meat served in school lunches is one grade below McDonald's and one grade above dog food.

Our pets deserve better than that!
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Re: Pink Slime invades school kids lunches
« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2012, 05:01:27 pm »
It's an often-cited statistic that most of the meat served in school lunches is one grade below McDonald's and one grade above dog food.

Our pets deserve better than that!

That's one reason I'm the type of dog owner that is always reading labels on the dog food and snacks, plus the Whole Dog Journal helps a lot.

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Re: Pink Slime invades school kids lunches
« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2012, 10:15:48 pm »
Okay, I had to look up what ammonium hydroxide is. Window cleaner? They put fucking window cleaner in food? How did that ever get passed the FDA? I thought they were supposed to be protecting us from stuff like that.

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Re: Pink Slime invades school kids lunches
« Reply #10 on: March 09, 2012, 10:21:45 pm »
Why, they ARE protecting us.  It's not at LETHAL levels!  Be happy with your gruel, fellow peasants!

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Re: Pink Slime invades school kids lunches
« Reply #11 on: March 09, 2012, 10:33:49 pm »
Okay, I had to look up what ammonium hydroxide is. Window cleaner? They put fucking window cleaner in food? How did that ever get passed the FDA? I thought they were supposed to be protecting us from stuff like that.

You have sodium hypochlorite in your water, AKA Bleach.  Depending on where you live you may also have some ammonium injected in the water as well.

....and that is a good thing.
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Re: Pink Slime invades school kids lunches
« Reply #12 on: March 09, 2012, 10:36:25 pm »
Why is that a good thing? Surely there's other ways to purify water without putting bleach or ammonia in it.

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Re: Pink Slime invades school kids lunches
« Reply #13 on: March 09, 2012, 10:47:16 pm »
Its only really a problem if either A) your particular purification plant has had a leak or somesuch, or B) you drink a LOT of fucking tap water.  Course, at that point, you'd have more to fear from water poisoning than over-ingestion of bleach.  Or fluoride.
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Re: Pink Slime invades school kids lunches
« Reply #14 on: March 09, 2012, 11:23:52 pm »
Its only really a problem if either A) your particular purification plant has had a leak or somesuch, or B) you drink a LOT of fucking tap water.  Course, at that point, you'd have more to fear from water poisoning than over-ingestion of bleach.  Or fluoride.

Indeed. And no, there are no real better solutions. You can filter and filter til the cows come home, but microbes are bitches to just remove--you have to kill them. The trace chemicals left in the water are so miniscule (generally measured in parts per billion) that they can't really pose a health risk--you probably get more of those same chemicals through breathing every time you clean your house than you do in a year of drinking tap water.