WTF? 9-Year-Old Who Changed School Lunches Silenced By Politicians (Wired)

For the past two months, one of my favorite reads has been Never Seconds, a blog started by 9-year-old Martha Payne of western Scotland to document the unappealing, non-nutritious lunches she was being served in her public primary school. Payne, whose mother is a doctor and father has a small farming property, started blogging in early May and went viral in days. She had a million viewers within a few weeks [...]

Back for seconds: School dinner blog gets a million hits as nine-year-old author is inundated with global meal pictures

Martha Payne began adding daily photos of school lunches to own blog site
Pupils from America to Taiwan, Spain and Japan have now sent in photos

Jamie Oliver is a fan and wrote to her encouraging her to ‘keep it up’

A schoolgirl who sparked an outcry over nutrition by posting pictures of her school food online has been inundated with pictures of school dinners from around the world – and has chalked [...]

Shocking report shows 70% of this popular food is contaminated with a disgusting ingredient

From Washington’s Blog:

ABC news notes:

“Pink slime,” a cheap meat filler, is in 70% of the ground beef sold at supermarkets and up to 25% of each American hamburger patty, by some estimates.

The USDA just bought 7 million pounds of pink slime to add to school lunches (up from 5.5 million pounds in 2009).

Jamie Oliver gave a must-watch demonstration on the subject…

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70% of all Ground Beef Contains “Pink Slime” … and USDA Bought 7 Million Pounds of the Stuff for School Lunches

By Washington’s Blog

ABC news notes:

“Pink slime,” a cheap meat filler, is in 70 percent of the ground beef sold at supermarkets and up to 25 percent of each American hamburger patty, by some estimates.

 

 

 

The USDA just bought 7 million pounds of pink slime to add to school lunches (up from 5.5 million pounds in 2009).

 
Jamie Oliver gave a must-watch demonstration on the subject a year ago:

 

 

 

But at least we know where the real meat part of ground beef comes from … [...]