Entry #5: Don't Eat the Pink Slime...

In the back of your child's school cafeteria?

   Watch this video. Read this article. After you're done vomiting, let’s talk a little bit about what we’ve just seen.  This is of course hot on the heels of my last post discussing Food Inc., and now we get a little bit more of the truth. To be honest, I can appreciate the desire to get every last scrap of useable meat off the cow, but I would just stop at using it in dog food. These are some of the most disease-ridden cuts of meat in the cow, and anyone that works in food service (i.e. fast food) should be able to tell you that keeping meat at “low temperatures” (between 40 and 140 degrees Fahrenheit) results in the perfect breeding conditions for bacteria of all kinds.  But that’s ok, cause then they wash it in ammonia.  Ammonia. The same ammonia that can be found in Windex, Lysol, and URINE. By a show of hands, how many members of this audience would be willing to drink even one of those? Sit down Bear Grylls; you don’t count.  Do you know what ammonia does to the body? IT BURNS THROUGH YOUR CELLS! Your body already produces a weak form of ammonia as a waste product. Eating ammonia would be like putting carbon dioxide back into your body (Bonus tip: guess how soda gets "carbonated"). THIS IS IN YOUR FOOD! THIS IS IN YOUR CHILDS FOOD! The USDA doesn’t even need to tell you about it! According to them,  it’s a “process” and in low enough quantities that it won’t harm the average person. And there is no way the meat is safe in this situation. The best case scenario is that you’re eating beef and Windex. The human body has a funny way of storing toxins until it can deal them properly. This stuff can build up in your system until it starts doing serious damage, along with all of the other chemicals that are in your food. And that’s IF they put enough ammonia in to kill the bacteria.  Otherwise, you’re eating E. coli AND Lysol! You’re getting sick from the germs (which I remind you were given free rein to reproduce at a rate that puts rabbits to shame), and your body is so messed up, it can’t even defend itself. 

  

And we take this god-awful concoction, and put it into our children’s lunches?! Their immune systems haven’t even had a chance to develop, and we’re assaulting them with the culinary equivalent of biological warfare? Please tell me I’m not the only one that thinks this is INSANE! They can put it into the kids’ lunches, into the meat you buy at the supermarket, and I’d bet good money that it’s in most of the fast food joints too. NOWHERE IS SAFE!

Warn your kids now, so that they can prepare accordingly.

   I can only hope that health-food stores like Sprouts and New Frontiers refuse to sell this garbage. Like Jamie Oliver said, your best bet is to get the butcher to grind some other meat for you, in front of you. It might be a pain, but I would take a minor inconvenience over horrible tainted meat any day of the week. I’m going to go throw out my hamburger now, and try to think of something a little more peppy for my next entry. All this evil meat talk is starting to get to me. Until next time remember…