Posted on 03/09/2012 9:01:40 AM PST by AtlasStalled
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 before....
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Bush’s fault.
You know, you CAN post a few paragraphs. Sheesh.
Mmmm Mmm Nummy!
We cant have your kids eating Turkey lettuce and tomato sangwiches slathered with mayo. A side of chips and an apple when we have all this pink slime to benefit our health!
Think Obama serves the pink slime to his Hollywood friends when they eat dinner at the White House?
I’m the Slime - Frank Zappa
I am gross and perverted
I’m obsessed ‘n deranged
I have existed for years
But very little has changed
I’m the tool of the Government
And industry too
For I am destined to rule
And regulate you
I may be vile and pernicious
But you can’t look away
I make you think I’m delicious
With the stuff that I say
I’m the best you can get
Have you guessed me yet?
I’m the slime oozin’ out
From your TV set
You will obey me while I lead you
And eat the garbage that I feed you
Until the day that we don’t need you
Don’t go for help . . . no one will heed you
Your mind is totally controlled
It has been stuffed into my mold
And you will do as you are told
Until the rights to you are sold
That’s right, folks . . .
Don’t touch that dial
Well, I am the slime from your video
Oozin’ along on your livin’ room floor
I am the slime from your video
Can’t stop the slime, people, lookit me go
I am the slime from your video
Oozin’ along on your livin’ room floor
I am the slime from your video
Can’t stop the slime, people, lookit me go
Marie Antoinette said let the peasants eat cake, and Michelle Obama says let the children eat pink slime!
I’m so glad my kids aren’t in school anymore. Yuk!
Since when did Moochelle Datsoinbutte become a nutrition expert?
LOL!
Solyent Pink
looks like foam insulation
“Pink Slime” = PBS
Kid friendly version.
Anyone but me notice that the more the federal government takes over the school lunches, the worse they get?
The “pink slime” does not have to appear on the label because, over objections of its own scientists, USDA officials with links to the beef industry labeled it meat.“The under secretary said, ‘it’s pink, therefore it’s meat,’” Custer told ABC News.
ABC News has learned the woman who made the decision to OK the mix is a former undersecretary of agriculture, Joann Smith. It was a call that led to hundred of millions of dollars for Beef Products Inc., the makers of pink slime.
When Smith stepped down from the USDA in 1993, BPI’s principal major supplier appointed her to its board of directors, where she made at least $1.2 million over 17 years.
I betcha’ Stimulus Funds have paid for this stuff in the past and maybe now
Stimulating Ooze :)
Joann Smith, the USDA bureaucrat who approved use of Pink Slime, and later joined the board of directors of the maker of Pink Slime, served under Bush I. So it really IS Bush’s fault. The Leftist media is loudly noting this fact.
I can't remember the name, but looking back, it was probably a would-be competitive offering against Jell-O. (Camps were probably targeted with great deals in order to hit the palettes of kids, hoping to create the demand that way...)
I remember the green (Lime), but I'm pretty sure it came in pink (Strawberry) as well.
As such, the look of it prompted much jocularity at the end of dinner.
End sarcasm.
The government OKs feeding this “crap” to school kids, but let Mom make them a healthy lunch at home and send it with their kid to school and government inspectors will confiscate it make the kids eat this. The quickest way to end the practice of adding pink slime to food ...have some imam declare it to be haraam and unfit for consumption by Muslims. Given our political correct society pink slime would be instantly banned least it offend some Muslim.
When I was in school during the Carter Administration he pulled some sort of bailout of the turkey farmers, and we had processed, reconstituted, breaded deep-fried turkey patties for school lunch 3 days out of 5 for a year an a half.
In every conceivable way, Obama is Carter 2.0
Wasn't it Jefferson who said "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need?" Oh Wait, that was MARX not Jefferson. Isn't it a great country where anyone can spawn out a kid and force someone else to pay for it?
Great album
Where’s Meryl Streep...
“What are we doing to our CHILDREN!?!?!?!”
Zappa was one strange dude...yet, at times, he was a prescient genius.
And if you make a turkey sandwich with some chips and an apple and send little Johnnie off to school will some govt. son of a bitch take it away from little Johnnie and force him to eat this crap?
Then charge you kids account for the school lunch??
Get a ball bat and take it to some ones ass on this one if they did.
“Solyent Pink is Sheeple!!!!”
That is funny right thar I tell ya!
I am using that as my tag line. You can have my “The Left are all Fluked Up”.
Well, the left is fluked up, dontcha know?
My dog eats better than this and I am dead serious.
Here is an article that states how one can avoid this slime yet still eat beef.
http://www.eatlikenoone.com/what-is-pink-slime-beef-how-to-avoid-it.htm
(And obviously one can avoid beef altogether) I hope ground turkey doesn’t have this in it.
1. There is NO SUCH THING as "pink slime." What there is, is lean beef recovered from fat trimmings by a process of heating and separating in a centrifuge. Jamie Oliver's "demonstration" was a travesty. If you take ground beef, mix it with household cleaner grade ammonia and spin it in a dryer, you WILL get "pink slime," but this is NOT the process used by industry. Mr Oliver may be a decent chef, but he knows nothing about food processing or food safety!
2. The treatment with a few puffs of ammonia gas is just enough to temporarily raise the pH (alkalinity) about 1-1/2 points above its natural pH. Why is this done? Because it KILLS E. Coli bacteria! Do you think ABC will be willing to accept the responsibility for the deaths that will result from the next outbreak of E. Coli contamination?
3. The product of this process, which has been used for years, is lean beef, which is why the USDA doesn't require its being labeled as an "ingredient." To make up for the amount of beef that is recovered by this process from the fat trimmed off steaks, roasts, etc., would require the slaughter of an additional 1.5 million head of cattle. Does anyone think this is a good idea?
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