"Pink Slime" for School Lunches?
Posted by L A on Thursday, March 8, 2012 Under: Crimes Against Humanity
HuffingtonPost.com (excerpts): The government is buying 7 million pounds of ammonia-treated meat for meals. Pink slime - that ammonia-treated meat in a bright Pepto-bismol shade may have been rejected by fast food joints like McDonald's, Taco Bell and Burger King, but it's being brought in by the tons for the nation's school lunch program. The US Department of Agriculture is purchasing 7 million pounds of the "slime" for school lunches, The Daily reports. Officially termed "lean beef trimmings," the product is a ground-up combination of beef scraps, cow connective tissues and other beef trimmings that are treated with ammonium hydroxide to kill pathogens like salmonella and E coli.
"We originally called it soylent pink," microbiologist Carl Custer, who worked at the Food Safety Inspection Service for 35 years, 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." Custer and microbiologist Gerald Zernstein concluded in a study that the trimmings are a "high risk" product, but Zerstein tells The Daily that scientists in DC were pressured to approve this stuff with minimal safety approval" under President George HW Bush's administration.
Controversy surrounding "pink slime" stems from various safety concerns, particularly dangers associated with ammonium hydroxide, which can both be harmful to eat and has potential to to turn into ammonium nitrate - a common component in homemade bombs, according to MSNBC. It is also used in household cleaners and fertilizers. In 2009, The New York Times reported that despite the added ammonia, tests of lean beef trimmings of schools across the country revealed dozens of instances of E. coli and salmonella pathogens. Between 2005 and 2009, E. coli was found three times and salmonella 48 times, according to the Times, including two contaminated batches of 27,000 pounds of meat.
News of the USDAs plans to bring 7 million pounds of "pink slime" to school cafeterias nationwide comes just weeks after the government announced new guidelines to ensure students are given healthier options for school meals. Right! Kick out McDonald's meals and bring in the "pink slime!"
Do you suppose the Obamas would feed this slime to their two daughters? Not on your life! It may be time to get rid of vacations, recreations, the second car, or even the only car (and take a bus), in order to bring the children home to teach them, nurture them in love and the Word of God, and feed them meals that won't kill them!
How hypocritical of the Obamas to promote "healthy eating," while Michelle Obama visits schools and the military with her speeches on healthy eating, and to go so far as to literally ban fast food McDonald's from public schools, while buying this toxic slime that even McDonald's chains won't buy, then feed it to America's children. What an outrage! Is this the plan to cull the population? Do they want to start with the innocent children by feeding them toxic waste?! Please read the next post, and while you're at it, consider what sacrifices you can make for the sake of your children, their health and welfare, and especially their eternal souls. The Word of God places the responsibility of our children on us, not the government. God said, "You shall lay up My Words in your heart and in your soul and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, when you lie down and when you rise up" Deuteronomy 11:18-19. Are your children being educated in the admonition of the Lord, or are they being taught we came from monkeys, taught how to engage in sex acts in elementary school, and taught that sexually perverted lifestyles and abominations (men with men and women with women) are acceptable in elementary school? If you are interested in more information, please visit the Home Education page of this website. God bless you.
"We originally called it soylent pink," microbiologist Carl Custer, who worked at the Food Safety Inspection Service for 35 years, 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." Custer and microbiologist Gerald Zernstein concluded in a study that the trimmings are a "high risk" product, but Zerstein tells The Daily that scientists in DC were pressured to approve this stuff with minimal safety approval" under President George HW Bush's administration.
Controversy surrounding "pink slime" stems from various safety concerns, particularly dangers associated with ammonium hydroxide, which can both be harmful to eat and has potential to to turn into ammonium nitrate - a common component in homemade bombs, according to MSNBC. It is also used in household cleaners and fertilizers. In 2009, The New York Times reported that despite the added ammonia, tests of lean beef trimmings of schools across the country revealed dozens of instances of E. coli and salmonella pathogens. Between 2005 and 2009, E. coli was found three times and salmonella 48 times, according to the Times, including two contaminated batches of 27,000 pounds of meat.
News of the USDAs plans to bring 7 million pounds of "pink slime" to school cafeterias nationwide comes just weeks after the government announced new guidelines to ensure students are given healthier options for school meals. Right! Kick out McDonald's meals and bring in the "pink slime!"
Do you suppose the Obamas would feed this slime to their two daughters? Not on your life! It may be time to get rid of vacations, recreations, the second car, or even the only car (and take a bus), in order to bring the children home to teach them, nurture them in love and the Word of God, and feed them meals that won't kill them!
How hypocritical of the Obamas to promote "healthy eating," while Michelle Obama visits schools and the military with her speeches on healthy eating, and to go so far as to literally ban fast food McDonald's from public schools, while buying this toxic slime that even McDonald's chains won't buy, then feed it to America's children. What an outrage! Is this the plan to cull the population? Do they want to start with the innocent children by feeding them toxic waste?! Please read the next post, and while you're at it, consider what sacrifices you can make for the sake of your children, their health and welfare, and especially their eternal souls. The Word of God places the responsibility of our children on us, not the government. God said, "You shall lay up My Words in your heart and in your soul and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, when you lie down and when you rise up" Deuteronomy 11:18-19. Are your children being educated in the admonition of the Lord, or are they being taught we came from monkeys, taught how to engage in sex acts in elementary school, and taught that sexually perverted lifestyles and abominations (men with men and women with women) are acceptable in elementary school? If you are interested in more information, please visit the Home Education page of this website. God bless you.
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