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From the wire: [The] U.S. Department of Agriculture has decided to give school administrators a choice regarding the use of “pink slime” in school lunches. For the next school year, administrators can choose to order beef without “pink slime.” This alternative plan was created because of what the USDA dubbed, “customer demand.” After word got […]
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One of the reasons for the blog’s interest in “pink slime” comes from experience working with microorganisms that produced collagenase, an enzyme that degrades the connective tissue protein, collagen. To do rapid qualitative screening for collagenase production, or just to quickly and cheaply assay for the presence of the enzyme in samples, we used large […]
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A piece from the wires, furnished by ABC News, illustrates the corporate practice of taking what’s functionally garbage and perverting the use of descriptive language to sell it: ABC News has the learned that on Thursday the U.S. Department of Agriculture will announce that starting this fall, schools will be able to choose whether or […]
This cartoon on pink slime meat product at DailyKos is worth a laugh. A longer story, from 2009, in the New York Times on the material shows what corporate American businesses believe to be innovative: making money from garbage. From time to time DD blog has covered how this blows up in the faces of […]
It had to happen. Hamburger and steak are moving toward being only for swells. And why not? If the cattleman can lift prices, capitalize on shortage, and sell to countries like China where the government will help pay a higher price for it, it’s the free hand of the market, right? From the wire: The […]
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