PurpleJedi said:

^^^^

That's the "pink slime" they're talking about.

[Edited 3/8/12 13:42pm]

And the US government thought it was okay for us to eat that crap without knowing it was being put in there?

Vendetta1 said:

PurpleJedi said:

^^^^

That's the "pink slime" they're talking about.

[Edited 3/8/12 13:42pm]

And the US government thought it was okay for us to eat that crap without knowing it was being put in there?

Look...my kids' school district doesn't allow kids to bring soda cans for lunch and they banned cakes for birthdays because of some "healthy" regimen that NY state is pursuing.

BUT, the government is going to say it's ok to consume ammonia-treated tendons & ligaments, thinly-veiled as "meat"?

Vendetta1 said:

PurpleJedi said:

^^^^

That's the "pink slime" they're talking about.

[Edited 3/8/12 13:42pm]

And the US government thought it was okay for us to eat that crap without knowing it was being put in there?

Then they wonder why kids' bodies get fucked up. If I was in public school, I wouldn't have ate anything in there, I don't care how starve I was. I would bring in my own doggone lunch. Thank you.

PurpleJedi said:

Seven Million Pounds of “Pink Slime” Beef Destined for National School Lunch Program

McDonald's and Taco Bell have banned it, but now the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is picking up 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 before….

According to TheDaily.com, the term "pink slime" was coined by microbiologist Gerald Zirnstein, formerly of the USDA Food Safety Inspection Service. He first saw it being mixed into burger meat when he was touring a Beef Products Inc (BPI) facility in 2002 after an outbreak of salmonella. "Scientists in D.C. were pressured to approve this stuff with minimal safety approval," Zirnstein told The Daily.

"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.

Reportedly, Zirnstein and his colleague Carl Custer studied the substance and classified it as a "high risk product." Custer, who worked at the Food Safety Inspection service for 35 years, says, "We looked at the product and we objected to it because it used connective tissues instead of muscle. It was simply not nutritionally equivalent [to ground beef]. My main objection was that it was not meat."

full story HERE

Which is why (it use to be now the markets have caught on) shopping the prerimeter of supermarkets is recommended. The same stuff that used as filler in fast food, is the same stuff that colorfully packaged on store shelves. It's shocking when you read this stuff and then you noticed the changes.