His determination? Kids have been brainwashed into believing that eating scraps of meat and blood and bone marrow and connective tissue and giblets isn’t bad and we must do something to teach children that they are wrong.

Now, I am not saying that eating a skinless baked chicken breast isn’t healthier for you than eating fried chicken nuggets, but human beings for thousands of years have been making efficient use of livestock specifically by making delicious, nutritious dishes out of scraps of meat and blood and bone marrow and connective tissue and giblets. It’s called food.

(So too are parts of animals even less esthetically pleasing than the ones Jamie Oliver was using – he started out with a commercially prepared “chicken” – the ones you buy at the store that seem to have mysteriously misplaced their heads and feet and entrails. There’s some good eating there as well.)

NY Times and other ran articles about schools that won’t be using meat they’ve already purchased.

As a Taxpayer, I am extremely offended that some parents with a petition who saw a picture on the Internet can get a Government entity like a school to waste my hard-earned tax dollars.

These parents should offer to buy the pink-slime from the school and replace it with something at no cost to Taxpayers.

It has to do with why pink slime is being produced instead of headcheese.

I can foresee labels on the salad dressing I buy, which already has “gluten free” on the label, will now have “pink slime free” too.

Sadly, for much of the actual target demographic, “gluten free” products are not a choice, they are a requirement. For me and others with Celiac disease (and possibly those with gluten intolerance) gluten is essentially a poison when ingested. It triggers an autoimmune reaction in our GI tract that causes damage to the villi in the small intestine that leads to a whole host of other problems (including a radically increased chance of developing many kinds of cancers). Gluten also happens to be in a huge amount of processed foods, even when it is not a necessary ingredient. It is in things like malt flavoring and extract, in some types of caramel coloring, can be introduced by cross contaminated oats, numerous other ingredients, and sometimes even by there being a gluten filled production line next to where “gluten free” products are being made…

Believe me, I wouldnt be gluten free if I didnt have to be…its not a choice for me… Pink slime free…well, I probably would choose to be free of that but it doesnt look legitimately dangerous to anyone’s health.

But I want to know if it’s in my ground chuck.

I love meat – but it just ain’t right to abuse animals in the way our meat industry abuses them. There should be a minimal standard of humane care when you are raising and slaughtering animals, not necessarily required by law, but rather by one’s own conscience.