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"Pink Slime" Beef is Quietly Returning to School Lunches!
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Bill Steele
Sep 21, 2013, 10:19:42 PM9/21/13
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Kids are going back to school and so is the ground beef filler
dubbed “pink slime.” Thousands of schools across the U.S. rushed
last year to stop feeding their students meat that contained the
ammonia-treated beef, known by industry as lean finely textured
beef.
Their action followed a massive media uproar, which included a
prime time show featuring British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver
and a series of critical reports by ABC World News.
New government data show schools in four more states have since
put aside concerns and resumed buying the controversial product.
As of Sept. 3, seven states put in orders to the USDA for about
2 million pounds of beef that may contain the controversial
product for the meals they serve in the 2013-14 school year. At
this time last year there were only three states — Iowa,
Nebraska and South Dakota — that had put in orders for beef that
may contain lean finely textured beef.
As schools across the country grapple with tight budgets, some
are changing their minds and accepting the lower-price
alternative product that brings down the price of the food they
serve.
Schools in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Texas have now
done an about face and also put in orders with the USDA for
ground beef that may contain the product, government data
obtained by POLITICO reveal.
dubbed “pink slime.” Thousands of schools across the U.S. rushed
last year to stop feeding their students meat that contained the
ammonia-treated beef, known by industry as lean finely textured
beef.
Their action followed a massive media uproar, which included a
prime time show featuring British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver
and a series of critical reports by ABC World News.
New government data show schools in four more states have since
put aside concerns and resumed buying the controversial product.
As of Sept. 3, seven states put in orders to the USDA for about
2 million pounds of beef that may contain the controversial
product for the meals they serve in the 2013-14 school year. At
this time last year there were only three states — Iowa,
Nebraska and South Dakota — that had put in orders for beef that
may contain lean finely textured beef.
As schools across the country grapple with tight budgets, some
are changing their minds and accepting the lower-price
alternative product that brings down the price of the food they
serve.
Schools in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Texas have now
done an about face and also put in orders with the USDA for
ground beef that may contain the product, government data
obtained by POLITICO reveal.
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