Enjoy the lovely photo with this!--Tom
In a message dated 4/17/2012 3:42:27 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
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_Join Us Today - Tell the USDA NO More Pink Slime!_
(http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/570?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=1)
(http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/570?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=2)
_Don't let our politicians slimewash Industrial Meat's latest outrage -
Join Us!_ (http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/570?akid=528.51
895.NuckXm&t=3)
(http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/570?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=4)
(http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/570?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=5)
_Join us to "Get the Slime Out" in our School Lunches - Not ever, ever
again!_ (http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/570?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=6)
Dear Thomas,
If you thought that Pink Slime was going away just because the
ammonia-treated meat filler byproduct has received a ton of bad press and the USDA
finally said it would allow it to be labeled, think again. Right now, Beef
Products Inc., Cargill and the Industrial Meat Empire are launching an all out
spring counter offensive to keep their degraded meat products on our
shelves and in our nation’s school lunch program.
In case you haven’t heard, an estimated 70 percent of hamburgers sold in
the U.S. contain a byproduct of left over beef parts treated with a blast of
ammonia hydroxide that 20 years ago was sold as dog food. Yes, dog food!
Already McDonalds, Burger King and Taco Bell have removed Pink Slime from
their products, but we need to make sure that our nation's children don't
get stuck with this garbage in their school lunches. This year the USDA has
already promised to buy 7 million pounds of Pink Slime. Our children
deserve better!
_Click here to tell the USDA “No Pink Slime in Our Children’s School
Lunches – not now, not ever!”_
(http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/570?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=7)
_http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/570?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=9_
(http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/570?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=8)
Last week, Iowa State University became ground zero in Industrial Meat’s
efforts to revive Pink Slime’s lagging public image. In what can only be
called an appalling PR stunt to promote industrial agriculture, Iowa governor
Terry Branstad and Congressman Steve King held a press conference at Iowa
State, one of the nation’s leading land grant universities and turned it into
a propaganda backdrop for slimewashing.
Branstad took to the stage wearing a T-shirt with Industrial Meat’s new
slogan, “Dude it’s Beef” and railed against what he claimed was a “smear
campaign” against a "safe" and "nutritious" product. Branstad’s enthusiasm
for slime is not surprising considering that in 2010 his campaign received
more than $150,000 in political donations from Regina and Eldon Roth, the
founder of Beef Products Inc., the world’s largest producer of Pink Slime, aka
"lean, finely textured beef" (LFTB).
Rather than sit back and watch this latest Industrial Ag PR effort unfold
without a fight, Food Democracy Now! joined with family farmers to hold our
own rally, “Truth: Pink Slime vs. LFTB”, so farmers could speak out
against the blatant politicization of the latest scandal to emerge from our
industrial food system.
_Join us and family farmers in taking back our food supply! Click here to
tell the USDA to make Pink Slime a thing of the past. _
(http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/570?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=10)
_http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/570?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=13_
(http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/570?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=12)
We stood with more than a dozen farmers and ranchers and nearly 50
students and fellow Iowans, who showed up to deliver the message that Pink Slime
was not a good food product for our nation’s children nor was the product
good for family farmers. It’s time that America’s farmers and consumers were
given priority in the USDA’s policy decisions over Industrial Meat Factory’
s profits.
As cattle producer Mike Callicrate, who travelled from Colorado for the “
Truth: Pink Slime vs. LFTB” rally said, “Today it’s industrial ag versus
family farm agriculture”.
For the past several decades the Industrial Meat slaughterhouses have been
winning, pushing hundreds of thousands of family farmers off the land and
degrading the quality of our food.
But you can change that. With your help we can win this fight.
_Join Food Democracy Now! and family farmers everywhere in standing up for
safe, sustainable and healthy food. Don’t let the USDA dump 7 million
pounds of this garbage on our kids_
(http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/570?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=14) .
_http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/570?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=16_
(http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/570?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=15)
Thanks for participating in food democracy,
Dave, Lisa and the Food Democracy Now! team
Sources:
1. “70 Percent of Ground Beef at Supermarkets Contains ‘Pink Slime’” ABC
News, March 7, 2012
_http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/563?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=18_
(http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/563?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=17)
2. “Schools will get to opt out of 'pink slime' beef”, Associated Press,
March 15, 2012
_http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/564?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=20_
(http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/564?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=19)
3. “Pink Slime: Combo of Connective Tissue, Scraps Hidden In Your Kid’s
Lunch”, FoxNews, March 8, 2012.
_http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/565?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=22_
(http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/565?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=21)
4. “Partners in ‘slime’: Feds keep buying ammonia-treated ground beef for
school lunches”, The Daily, March 5, 2012
_http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/566?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=24_
(http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/566?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=23)
5. “BPI’s Response to Outrage over Ground Beef? 3 Governors and a T-shirt”
, Appetite for Profit, March 30, 2012
_http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/567?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=26_
(http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/567?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=25)
6. “Safety of Beef Processing Method Is Questioned”, The New York Times,
December 30, 2009
_http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/568?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=28_
(http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/go/568?akid=528.51895.NuckXm&t=27)
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