Entry #9: Food Perspective Video: Pink Slime

How would you react if you saw an image of a beef patty (uncooked) on a menu at fast-food restaurant? Would you still have an appetite if you saw that your hamburger looked like pink play dough before it was cooked and had ammonia added to it? One would make the mistake that this is the image of strawberry ice-cream being shown, but no.... It's the non-glorified product of the cartilage remnants and whatever they could carve out to make this gooey substance of "lean textured beef."

'Pink Slime' For Lunch: Schools Can Opt Out Of Ammonia-Treated Ground Beef Filler

'Pink Slime' Is Making A Comeback. Do You Have A Beef With That?

From "Pink Slime" article, "When schools use that product, it shaves about $0.03 off the cost of ground beef, according to a 2009 New York Times report. ". I am so surprised that that is the sole reason to feed students that goop, but perhaps those fractions of a cent really add up. I really don't know much about business and the cost, but I even read in the article that it would be paid for if they joined the National School Lunch Program. So, there is no reason why schools should continue to serve this.

Always keep in mind that a burger you might be sinking your teeth into came from some gelatinous thrown-together glop that you would confuse for strawberry ice-cream. Something that isn't even considered to be meat.