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Title: Pink Slime Meat Coming To Your School Lunch Soon!
Post by: InformationGeek on March 08, 2012, 06:30:19 PM
Wow, not even Taco Bell or McDonald's want this stuff, but yet this will be going into school lunches?  Logic?  What's that?

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


Title: Re: Pink Slime Meat Coming To Your School Lunch Soon!
Post by: Ed, Ego and Superego on March 08, 2012, 06:39:51 PM
Forget that, I'm paying extra for the Solent meal plan for my kids.
-Ed


Title: Re: Pink Slime Meat Coming To Your School Lunch Soon!
Post by: Jack on March 09, 2012, 08:38:36 AM
I don't know, they make it sound like some new and horrible thing, but near the bottom of the article they say this:

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It's used in about 70% of ground beef in the US.


Title: Re: Pink Slime Meat Coming To Your School Lunch Soon!
Post by: Andrew on March 09, 2012, 08:45:15 AM
I eat scrapple, which is probably 95% "pink slime meat," so that part does not bother me.  What bothers me is that they point out the lower nutritional value.  That means it's just cheap filler.  Kids don't need cheap filler.  They need good, nutritional food.  We already pack  our kids' lunches, so it's no impact on my family, but it will affect many others.

I don't know, they make it sound like some new and horrible thing, but near the bottom of the article they say this:

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It's used in about 70% of ground beef in the US.


Yes, but I imagine a lot of that use is in fast food or prepared ground beef products.  Since a lot of what my family buys at the store is 93% lean and ground there at the meat department, I'd bet it's unlikely to have the stuff.


Title: Re: Pink Slime Meat Coming To Your School Lunch Soon!
Post by: Flick James on March 09, 2012, 02:41:35 PM
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We already pack  our kids' lunches, so it's no impact on my family, but it will affect many others.

What a novel concept. I grew up on brown-bag lunches. WTF is going on that brown-bagging is so f**king unheard of? Oh the humanity of a child bringing his or her lunch to school and actually getting food that their parents can control.


Title: Re: Pink Slime Meat Coming To Your School Lunch Soon!
Post by: claws on March 09, 2012, 03:19:25 PM
Where are Michelle Obama and the school lunch cops when you need them?


Title: Re: Pink Slime Meat Coming To Your School Lunch Soon!
Post by: tracy on March 09, 2012, 03:55:38 PM
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We already pack  our kids' lunches, so it's no impact on my family, but it will affect many others.

What a novel concept. I grew up on brown-bag lunches. WTF is going on that brown-bagging is so f**king unheard of? Oh the humanity of a child bringing his or her lunch to school and actually getting food that their parents can control.
I did that with my daughter most of the time. I wanted to be sure what she got was both good for her and tasted good. I have often wondered at some of the stuff they serve our kids.


Title: Re: Pink Slime Meat Coming To Your School Lunch Soon!
Post by: Andrew on March 09, 2012, 04:24:46 PM
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We already pack  our kids' lunches, so it's no impact on my family, but it will affect many others.

What a novel concept. I grew up on brown-bag lunches. WTF is going on that brown-bagging is so f**king unheard of? Oh the humanity of a child bringing his or her lunch to school and actually getting food that their parents can control.
I did that with my daughter most of the time. I wanted to be sure what she got was both good for her and tasted good. I have often wondered at some of the stuff they serve our kids.

That's why we do it.  Today Jenna and Andy had peanut butter and pumpkin butter sandwiches, yogurt, string cheese, applesauce, fruit juice, carrot sticks, fresh red pepper sliced up, and then one of those 100 calorie snack packs of chocolate covered-pretzels for dessert.

It sounds like a lot of food, and it is.  They're my kids.  I'm concerned of how much we're going to spend on food when they are teenagers.


Title: Re: Pink Slime Meat Coming To Your School Lunch Soon!
Post by: Newt on March 09, 2012, 04:58:04 PM
Hold the phone: sugar is a big bad, but pink slime meat is a 'go'?  (And is anyone else having difficulty not thinking of "The Stuff"?)


Title: Re: Pink Slime Meat Coming To Your School Lunch Soon!
Post by: El Misfit on March 10, 2012, 08:47:18 PM
Hold the phone: sugar is a big bad, but pink slime meat is a 'go'?  (And is anyone else having difficulty not thinking of "The Stuff"?)
I thought of "The Stuff" as well.

here's a quote from the comments down below:
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And they have the nerve to tell some parents that their homemade lunches aren't nutritious enough! So a turkey and cheese is bad, but chemically seperated meat and connective tissue is?


Title: Re: Pink Slime Meat Coming To Your School Lunch Soon!
Post by: ulthar on March 10, 2012, 09:15:41 PM

 We already pack  our kids' lunches, so it's no impact on my family



Um, don't be so sure.  From the "oh, that can NEVER happen" department:

http://www.carolinajournal.com/exclusives/display_exclusive.html?id=8762

And, the public outcry was so tremendous that they had to re-locate the meeting to discuss this.  Note also that the commission was acting against the advice of its own attorney!

http://www.nccivitas.org/2012/nc-commission-deleted-exception-for-parents-to-school-lunch-nutrition-rules/

"These People," as I've come to call them, will push, stomp and try anything.  Why, I don't know.  What the HELL they were thinking is beyond me.  But they thought they were doing the right thing in their worldview...a worldview that is simultaneously very prevalent...and very scary.


Title: Re: Pink Slime Meat Coming To Your School Lunch Soon!
Post by: Andrew on March 10, 2012, 09:21:36 PM

 We already pack  our kids' lunches, so it's no impact on my family


Um, don't be so sure.  From the "oh, that can NEVER happen" department:


Someone else will not force my children to eat something, and they will not replace what I provide them for meals.  Should they make the mistake of doing it once, I guarantee that it will not be repeated.

Also, from the article, it sounds like the mother had the exact same stance as I do.


Title: Re: Pink Slime Meat Coming To Your School Lunch Soon!
Post by: Newt on March 11, 2012, 11:59:54 AM
Ironic that since mad cow disease they have been steering away from adding this sort of material to animal feeds....wait a minute...why do they have so much available now for human consumption?  Hmm?


Title: Re: Pink Slime Meat Coming To Your School Lunch Soon!
Post by: Allhallowsday on March 20, 2012, 08:58:51 PM
Oh gad I'm just going to stop eating meat.  :hatred:
I quote myself bouncing back and forth, but I just read some of these stories.  Gross.