Posted on 03/06/2012 9:07:52 AM PST by combat_boots
Apparatchiks have been seizing lunches packed by parents and forcing kids to eat government-issued lunches instead. These lunches often include an ammonia-laced substance microbiologist Gerald Zirnstein has dubbed “pink slime”:
Made by grinding together connective tissue and beef scraps normally destined for dog food and rendering, BPI’s Lean Beef Trimmings are then treated with ammonia hydroxide, a process that kills pathogens such as salmonella and E. coli.
The resulting pinkish substance is later blended into traditional ground beef and hamburger patties.
Carl Custer, a retired microbiologist who spent 35 years in the Food Safety Inspection Service, doesn’t think much of the stuff.
“We originally called it soylent pink,” Custer told The Daily. “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.”
(Excerpt) Read more at moonbattery.com ...
Homemade sausage and scrapple and turkey soup and gravy and beef broth? You kidding?
“and gravy”
Onoz. Not gravy, too!
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