Growing Outrage Over “Pink Slime” in School Lunches

[angelatc]

Who cares? It's meat that's been processed to make it edible. Not sure why that upsets so many people, but it's pretty scary that it does.

 

[angelatc]

"low-grade beef trimmings, cartilage, connective tissue and other less than appetizing animal parts, ground up"

Bananah nah nah... I'm loving it. Thats the good stuff.

Exactly! Thanks to technology, we can now process and consume parts of the carcass that used to be wasted! That eliminates contaminating landfills and acts to keep food prices down and profits up.

Improved efficiency is good, not bad.

 

[donnay]

Why do you think they don't already know???? Again, leave people the hell alone already. Just because they aren't rabid about the same things you are doesn't mean they're ignorant. or uninformed.

You serious have problems, lady. I am rabid about liberty and about transparency. Not government interferences and allowing Big Agra and Big pHARMa to dictate to us. So get a clue why don't you.

 

[Drex]

I can speak for my school. We haven't gotten any beef any hamburgers for 2-3 weeks. Every day it's chicken.

 

[Jamesiv1]

It's quite good on Ritz crackers with a dab of spicy brown mustard.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Who cares? It's meat that's been processed to make it edible. Not sure why that upsets so many people, but it's pretty scary that it does.

People who want to make informed decisions about what they eat care. The only really upsetting part about it is that info about it was previously unknown. Would I eat it? Maybe-I'd have to look into it. I prefer real chicken instead of nuggets in general anyway. It kind of reminds me of sausage making. It's an ugly process, but tastes good in the end.

 

[BamaAla]

This is why I kill cows with my bare hands and eat them raw!

Pink slime injected meat doesn't sound all that appetizing to me, but I stick to grass fed organic beef.

If you're going to have public schools with food paid for by the citizens, the $10 a pound ground beef I like isn't going to cut it; you're going to have to live with processed meats as to be austere.

 

[QuickZ06]

I try my hardest to buy organic, but ever since I moved back here to Texas its a lot harder to find places like Trader Joe's and such. I think the food people would consume would change dramatically if they had to label everything that is in your food.

I would bet we all have something wrong with us, although I hope thats not the case. Its just, there is so much crap we are exposed to its insane and practically impossible not to be effected by it.

 

[donnay]

I try my hardest to buy organic, but ever since I moved back here to Texas its a lot harder to find places like Trader Joe's and such. I think the food people would consume would change dramatically if they had to label everything that is in your food.

I would bet we all have something wrong with us, although I hope thats not the case. Its just, there is so much crap we are exposed to its insane and practically impossible not to be effected by it.

I know for a fact Trader Joe's is going to Texas. One is being constructed in Plano, Texas. Plus there are a lot more ranchers in Texas, that I am sure you could call them and buy grass-fed beef from them.

Farmers markets are also great places to buy your produce and dairy. Lot's of Co-ops too.

 

[QuickZ06]

I know for a fact Trader Joe's is going to Texas. One is being constructed in Plano, Texas. Plus there are a lot more ranchers in Texas, that I am sure you could call them and buy grass-fed beef from them.

Farmers markets are also great places to buy your produce and dairy. Lot's of Co-ops too.

+rep!

Ahh I did not think of the co-ops, everything else is about 4 hours away from my place =( I can't wait till they build some Trader Joe's though.

 

[MikeStanart]

This is why I kill cows with my bare hands and eat them raw!

Pink slime injected meat doesn't sound all that appetizing to me, but I stick to grass fed organic beef.

If you're going to have public schools with food paid for by the citizens, the $10 a pound ground beef I like isn't going to cut it; you're going to have to live with processed meats as to be austere.

I agree; but what worries me is the trend lately to force kids to eat school luches, because their kid didn't have "a well balanced meal" according to some lunch Nazi; so then they force-feed the kid shit I wouldn't feed my dog. THAT I have a problem with.

 

[BamaAla]

I agree; but what worries me is the trend lately to force kids to eat school luches, because their kid didn't have "a well balanced meal" according to some lunch Nazi; so then they force-feed the kid shit I wouldn't feed my dog. THAT I have a problem with.

Absolutely. I recall some stories where public school kids weren't allowed to bring lunches and were forced to eat that crap. Seems it was in a poor black section of Chicago.

 

[SisCyn]

Our local radio station, that I listen to at work, is "Ag" based. Last week I heard Trent Loos (Loos Tales) comment about what a bad rap the media was giving pink slime. They call it something else, like lean meat scraps something.

Then I heard another radio program say something to the same effect, that it was a real slam job.

Today I heard that Gov. Terry Brandstad of Iowa issued a statement, reiterating the same thing, calling it a 'smear campaign'.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501363_162-57408156/branstad-seeks-congressional-probe-on-pink-slime/

 

[heavenlyboy34]

I know for a fact Trader Joe's is going to Texas. One is being constructed in Plano, Texas. Plus there are a lot more ranchers in Texas, that I am sure you could call them and buy grass-fed beef from them.

Farmers markets are also great places to buy your produce and dairy. Lot's of Co-ops too.

Congrats to Tejanos! It's my fave store. I promise you'll luv it.

 

[donnay]

Congrats to Tejanos! It's my fave store. I promise you'll luv it.

I know about the ones in Texas because I have family there.


I am already a big fan!! They are building them in New Hampshire finally. But I have to resort to Massachusetts until they do.

 

[BamaAla]

I know about the ones in Texas because I have family there.


I am already a big fan!! They are building them in New Hampshire finally. But I have to resort to Massachusetts until they do.

Trader Joe's is okay, but I prefer Whole Foods to it or Earth Fare. I like Fresh Market better than all of them, but it's really a different kind of store.

 

[donnay]

Trader Joe's is okay, but I prefer Whole Foods to it or Earth Fare. I like Fresh Market better than all of them, but it's really a different kind of store.

That's a definite; to each his own. Whole Foods is too expensive. My husband refers to it as "Whole Paycheck Foods." I, personally, like my own co-ops and farm stores that we have, and in the summer I grow my own. I rarely go to a supermarket any more.

 

[John F Kennedy III]

blah blah blah. Real life is too hard for some people. Apparently I"ve been eating it since I was a child, and yet I don't have cancer, allergies, autism - nothing.

They find a way to use more of the carcass (which is known as improving efficiency) and that's a bad thing?

Liberal do-gooders suck so much out of society - they're the real slime.

Lol.

"I ain't dead yet, keep smoking kids."

 

[Kluge]

You don't want your kid eating "pink slime?"

Take 5 minutes every morning and pack their lunch for god's sake.

 

[specsaregood]

"low-grade beef trimmings, cartilage, connective tissue and other less than appetizing animal parts, ground up"

Bananah nah nah... I'm loving it. Thats the good stuff.

Totally, thats how you made good soup stock.