What The Kids Are Eating of the Day: Ruled not good enough by America’s largest fast-food chains, the so-called “pink slime” — meat and meat by-products treated with ammonia — is still A-OK by U.S. Department of Agriculture standards.
In fact, the USDA will reportedly purchase over 7 million pounds of the gunk to turn into hamburgers and tacos for cafeterias feeding America’s schoolchildren.
McDonald’s, Burger King, and Taco Bell were all persuaded to stop using ammonia-treated meat after the practice of rinsing dog-grade meat with ammonia to wash away harmful bacteria was brought to the attention of consumers by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver.
“We’re taking a product that would be sold in its cheaper form for dogs,” said Oliver on his TV show Food Revolution. “After this process, we can give it to humans.”
But a USDA spokesman said there were no plans to stop using pink slime as part of the national school lunch program.
“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration as well as the Food Safety and Inspection Service considers ammonium hydroxide as ‘generally recognized as safe,’” said the spokesman, Aaron Lavallee. “FSIS reviewed the suitability of Beef Products Inc.’s use of ammonium hydroxide in order to assess its effectiveness in performing the intended technical purpose of use, at lowest level necessary, and to ensure that the product is not adulterated or misleading to consumers.”
However, since ammonia beef falls outside the jurisdiction of federal labeling requirements, parents have no way of knowing what exactly is being served to their kids.
[thedaily.]
Wow, I remember when that image was circulating around as “what chicken mcnuggets are made of.” I’m shocked to learn that it is in fact much grosser and scarier than that.
-Joe
god damnit i was going to get mcdonalds tomorrow too
I thought it was taffy. This is not meat!
SOMEONE PUT LIPSTICK ON AND KISSED THE BUS BUT SHE ONLY KISSED HANK. #hurtfeelings
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Oh god I just had the most depressing thought ever.
What if when Sherlock gets back he goes to see John and John doesn’t even react just lets him slide seamlessly back into his life. And at first Sherlock thinks it’s kind of weird but he gets used to it, to John never bringing it up, to the way he sometimes just snaps and yells or breaks something because he figures, “That’s just the way he copes and I deserve so much worse.” Then one day Lestrade or Mrs. Hudson or someone shows up and starts talking to Sherlock and John goes all white in the face and says
“You can see him, too?”
And that’s when Sherlock realizes that the reason John never said anything was because he’d been imagining that Sherlock was still there the whole time. He never noticed that his hallucination had been replaced by the real thing.
MLP - The Two Sides of Vinyl ScratchBy TehJadeh
You guys really seem to like his work, so we’ll begin with a “Two Sides Of” post today.
Today we’re set for Vinyl and Octavia, together or separate. Get ready for the drop.
I might have to extend the queue from 15 to 25 to fit everything in :3
Q:Linds. I have not seen you in months... this should be rectified immediately...if convenient.
If inconvenient, rectify anyway?
Q:YOUR CURSOR!
IZ SONICK!








