Sentences with phrase «pink slime petition»

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.

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Bettina Siegel blogs about food and food policy related to children over at The Lunch Tray, but you may know her better for her work on «pink slime;» in 2012, she garnered more than 258,000 signatures on a Change.org petition that led the USDA to change its policy on a low - quality ground beef product used in schools.

The petition, titled «Tell U.S.D.A. to stop using pink slime in school food,» garnered more than 200,000 signatures within nine days and prompted the U.S. Department of Agriculture to change its policy on using Lean Finely Textured Beef in the ground beef served in schools.

Your well - known «pink slime» petition resulted in the USDA making a change to its school food policy.

I spoke this morning with Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree's office and was pleased to learn that she has now submitted her sign - on letter to USDA with the signatures of 41 Congressional representatives, all of whom support the request expressed in our Change.org petition that USDA ban all use of Lean Beef Trimmings, aka «pink slime» in ground beef destined for the National School Lunch Program.

And now, just a day after the one - year anniversary of the launch of my «pink slime in school food» petition, it's... [Continue reading]

The story features my successful Change.org petition in 2012 regarding the use of lean, finely textured beef (aka «pink slime») in school food, and goes on to discuss subsequent petition campaigns on food - related issues.

Here's the latest update on our Change.org petition seeking to remove «pink slime» from school food:

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.

David Knowles of The Daily, the reporter who first broke the pink slime / school food story last Monday, also had an update which included our petition.

(To put this figure in perspective, my successful 2012 Change.org petition regarding lean, finely textured beef, aka «pink slime,» had around 225,000 signatures when USDA took action, and I closed the petition at around 259,000 signatures.)

Bettina, just wanted to let you know that, thanks ENTIRELY to you and your petition to take pink slime (YOUR WORDS) outta school lunches, I now dread going to work — thinking «this may be my last day of work at BPI», a company I've beem proud to work for for the past 10 years; a company that has taken recycling to the utmost heights (recycling lean beef trimmings to separate out the fat and reuse the remaining protein as a suppliment to other processed meats (such as hamburger, sausage, etc) and which customers, such as McDonald's, had WILLINGLY purchased in order to stretch their purchase dollars to give us consumers more value for our buck.

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.

-LSB-...] launched anti-» pink slime» petition campaign of Bettina Elias Siegel, who blogs at The Lunch Tray, illustrate a real organizing potential for the internet.

As I stated in another comment, I agreed with her petition in principle (I understood it to be that we should know what's in our kids» food at school), just not in her choice of the phrase «pink slime».

I want to be included in the petition so as not to add pink slime in anything we eat!

Choosing to use words like «pink slime» in a government petition were, in my opinion, lies (and the phrase «pink slime» IS hateful (also my opinion).

But I thought it was worth updating you on the progress of our petition seeking to end the use of Beef Products Inc.'s Lean Beef Trimmings (aka «pink slime») in the National School Lunch Program.

Only three weeks after launching my Change.org petition asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to stop the use of so - called «pink slime» (or lean, finely textured beef — «LFTB») in ground beef destined for school food, we've seen some truly extraordinary changes take place.

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.

Exactly three weeks to the day after starting my Change.org petition asking USDA to remove lean, finely textured beef («LFTB,» aka, «pink slime») from the ground beef used in school food, I've decided we've reached an appropriate juncture to close the petition.

She urged readers to «put a stop to pink slime» in school lunches and hastily launched an online petition before taking off for the day's errands.

My online «pink slime» petition led to an improvement in USDA policy in a mere nine days.

I promise I won't turn The Lunch Tray into «all - slime - all - the - time,» but I wanted to update you about the petition started here on Tuesday morning seeking to ban «pink slime» in school food:

I agree with you to some extent, but as the originator of the Change.org petition against pink slime in school food, I did want to share my thoughts as well.

While my petition focused on the use of pink slime in school food, I feel strongly that the media firestorm we created and the overwhelming response to the petition was animated by another concern as well: many Americans were learning for the first time about this substance and the fact that it's in, reportedly, 70 % of our ground beef without any sort of labeling for those who wish to avoid it.

In the piece, Ms. Donley criticizes the Change.org petition I started to remove so - called «pink slime» in school food.

Meanwhile, David Knowles, the writer at The Daily who originally reported on USDA's continued use of pink slime in school food, interviewed me yesterday about the petition.

As many of you know, in March, 2012 I launched on The Lunch Tray a Change.org petition seeking to remove lean, finely textured beef («LFTB,» more widely known as «pink slime») from the ground beef procured by the USDA for the National School Lunch Program.