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A Need for Local Beef: USDA Acknowledges the Horror of School Lunch Mystery Meats
America’s public school students can look forward to lunchtime with a little less fear and fatalism. On Friday the USDA announced that it will require all ground beef purchased for the National School Lunch Program to adhere to new safety standards. This announcement comes in the wake of a USA Today investigation that demonstrated widespread failure in government programs to ensure the absence of harmful bacteria in school lunches.
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This move brings the quality of school lunch meats in line with that now “sold to the nation’s fast food chains.” It is quite terrifying the think that schools nation wide served its youth worse meat than that found at Taco Bell, but apparently this represents a veritable sea change. Said Senator Kirsten Gillebrand of New York, “For too long, a McDonald’s hamburger has been safer for our kids than those served in some school cafeterias. I applaud the USDA for taking action today to protect millions of American schoolchildren.”
This is a laudable, if belated move, but it seems to ignore the bigger predicament of diet: that multiple generations of Americans have been raised on sloppy joes and chicken nuggets.
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How can we help ourselves & future generations? Get informed, and seek out high-quality local meat choices…
Listen to a segment on NHPR about the the decision to raise one’s children on meat, and how to do so locally.
Check out LOCALFOODSPLYMOUTH.ORG – a great resource for finding products from NH Farmers
Read the CHOWHOUND.COM discussion of where to find grass-fed beef in Philly
Written by robin on 05/21/2010 in Activism | Blog | Editorial | News | Theory/Criticism
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