I am outraged that government officials would allow for this supposed "food" to be served in school. As a member of the great education system of Iowa, I go to school for most of the day and eat lunch at school. The school lunches have taken a dip in the last couple years. This could be attributed to rising cost of food, lower budget for the school, and changes made by the government to provide healthy food at lunch. I understand that with economic hardships come changes like these but this slime is outragous. No child would eat it if they knew the full picture of the food the were eating. Left over bits of beef mashed into a paste that can be cooked like hamburger, Not only is this gross sounding, the nutritional value of this food is not great.
On the other hand, many companies that make hotdogs have been proven to use the lowers quality meats allowed by the FDA to go into their hotdogs. If children are already eating foods like the pink slime, why is it such a big deal. I think that the problem is not so much the slime its self, but the principle that kids are being controlled at lunch.
School kids have lost the freedom to eat many things at school such as salt. I believe that the slime is just another outrage made by angry kids and parents that feel they are being cheated out of a good tasting school lunch. The slime talk will go away and be forgotten when the next change is made in school lunches.
