I want to know if I can
get my pink slime or ammonia on the side?
You'll recall that Senator Menendez was the first federal elected official who stepped up to the plate and supported our efforts to
get pink slime out of school food.
As you know, our Change.org petition to
get pink slime out of the beef provided by USDA for school meals led to a USDA change in policy within a mere nine days.
That's why I've started my very first Change.org petition this morning — it asks Secretary Vilsack to
get pink slime off of our kids» lunch trays once and for all.
While I do not dismiss the recent grassroots efforts that have gained significant strength via a petition to
get pink slime out of school cafeterias, I worry that the focus on it detracts from bigger and more important food system issues, and provides the meat industry with a convenient distraction and an easily fixable problem that can effortlessly be spun into a public - relations success.
Not exact matches
Allison — Normally I'd write a much longer answer but since I'm in the middle of this
pink slime petition campaign, let me point you to one of the best resources on the Internet for people
getting started in trying to improve school food on a local level.
If we were going to
get rid of the
pink slime, which hasn't been proven to be harmful to human health, then why hasnt anyone tried to eliminate plastic and foam packaging that contains compounds that have been proven to be xenobiotics (carcinogens and endocrine disruptors — ceram wrap is really bad in this respect it contain a lot of chemicals that leach in to the food it covers).
The «
pink slime» furor
gets curiouser and curiouser.
I don't think I've ever been the target of a concerted lobbying campaign before, but efforts to restore the public image of
pink slime — a.k.a. Lean Finely Textured Beef — have even
gotten to me.
Bravo to Congresswoman Chellie Pingree of Maine, an early and vocal supporter of my effort to
get lean, finely textured beef, commonly referred to as «
pink slime» out of school food.
yep but she picked what post to except right so she used the ones that feed her crusade thats how she help promote the
pink slime myth with out
getting the facts.
I have never
gotten so much satisfaction from the reading the news than I did when I read that our consumer power shut down the
pink slime factories.
When I first saw the
pink slime headlines on this blog, my first thought was, «this might be something I could
get behind, certainly better than the cupcake nazi campaign.»
I was traveling to all day yesterday for a media appearance (more on that when I'm allowed to share), which was extremely frustrating because all I wanted to be doing was speaking with school food sources to
get their reaction to USDA's announcement about school choice and
pink slime.
I hope that, in time, you and other consumers will be able to
get past the portrayal of LFTB as an unhealthy
pink slime product and realize that it is lean beef.
Restores my faith in this country a bit that at least people can
get behind not wanting
pink slime in their food... hopefully this will also open the door for educating people on the other scary additives that are all over the place without our knowledge
In the picture below, you can see how thin the
pink slime got.
Beef Products, Inc., makers of
pink slime, said business has declined substantially since social media took interest, especially once concerned parents and others started trying to
get the beef byproduct removed from school lunches.