Perfectly Healthy Meat and Slimy Behavior

It may have come to your attention that mechanically separated meat has become an issue.  The process is simple: Run the bones that have meat difficult to remove from the from the bones through a mechanical process to gather the remaining meat.  Treat like you treat other meat; add dye and flavorings and add to extend the meat product that normally doesn't need a specific shape (like a steak or a drumstick).  It works with a variety of meats.

While some people are making up rumors about the process (they use the whole animal! - lie) (they soak it in ammonia! partial lie - they use a gas while running it through tubes) most of us are just a little put off by the idea and the fact that no one told us.

Legislation has been passed in the past about it, particularly during the mad-cow disease scare.  It's not new, it's not a surprise - it's just that we didn't know.  That bothers an individual.

Not me.  I will happily go buy it at Walmart and save the money that is going to be spent by the rest of you because in the days following this discovery (watch me try my hand at the psychic business) the price of meat is going to go way up (you have to take baby steps in the psychic racket).

That doesn't bother me.  It's a relief on my budget.  There is one thing that bothers me.

The public school has been doing this all along in the food service they accept from the Federal government, that same service that is frequently threatened with being ended if the public schools don't do what the Federal government wants, and they and the Federal government were silent while McDonalds took an incredible backlash for using what has come, erroneously, to be called, "pink slime".  Their silence speaks volumes to me.  What does it say to me?

Not for me to say here.  It has to do with ethics, with a willingness to let a private chain take a beating but remain silent about what they themselves feed our kids.  It's in the open now, but then the Federal government took it to a new level.

They have offered that the school systems will have a choice of using the pink...errr...the processed meat or not.

If you were the administrator of a school, and had the choice, what would you pick?  If the choice was between having to buy your own meat and accept the Federal governments slime, what would you pick?  We'll see how it plays out.

This will likely go away in a short time.  A number of stores and restaurants are dumping the use of the product.  The price of meat will go up, and those that keep this perfectly healthy, if somewhat disturbing, product will grow.  There is justice in the world, except when it comes to education.

"Buy your own meat or eat our slime."  A paraphrase, one I hope is utterly wrong.  You get to decide.

See the Snopes article on the process:
http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/msm.asp