It's Back! Pink Slime Returns
If you live in one of seven states (funny, the government isn't talking which), that disgusting slimy hamburger filler will be visiting your child's cafeteria very soon. According to politico.com, only schools in three states had signed up for the ammonia-treated meat by this time last year. Now, so far, a total of seven will be serving it to kids. Bill Tomson and Helena Bottemiller Evich report that some schools, faced with ever-decreasing budgets, are revising their revulsion, and serving it again. Why? "Lean finely textured beef brings down the cost of ground beef by about 3 percent, which can add up quickly in a program that feeds more than 31 million school children each day," they write. The two talked to Margo Wootan, head of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest.Schools, who said schools are under "more financial pressure than ever before, thanks in part to the new school lunch nutrition standards that hit the ground ...