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NYC Public Schools To Stop Serving Slime, In September
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Garth Johnston
Published Mar 22, 2012
Modified Mar 22, 2012
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"Pink slime" is getting the pink slip at New York's public schools, just as Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer wanted. The meat product (the industry calls it "lean finely textured beef" and uses it as filler in ground beef) has been much in the news lately, with everyone from Safeway to McDonalds and Taco Bell responding to public pressure and saying they're getting rid of the soylent pink. So back to dog food it goes!
According to Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott, the Department of Education will no longer serve the slime made of scraps and fat treated with ammonia hydroxide starting next fall. "We're phasing it out by September—they will no longer be served in our schools," Walcott said Wednesday. Until then though, maybe tell the wee ones to hold off on the school burgers?
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