The American food supply, listeria, e.coli and now pink slime.

Children are a commodity, too?

By JESS BIDGOOD

Published: March 24, 2012

BOSTON — Andy Gomez, a ninth grader at Brighton High School, was not sure why hamburgers and meatballs had disappeared from the cafeteria, but he was not happy about it. “Today I just ate peanut butter and jelly,” he said. “I don’t like the chicken patty.” 

The absence of ground beef at lunch last week — at Brighton High and 43 other public schools here — could be explained by a peek into the freezer, where 21 boxes of ground beef products sat, cordoned off from the rest of the meat by a clinical-looking cover of white paper reading “Do not use.”...

Are our children stranded with the poor quality of food in the USA? 

Have we no pride anymore in providing 'the best' for our children? 

Have we become so demoralized by 'accepting' what comes our way that we can't see the horrids of nightmares before they occur? There was a time in the USA when this was unthinkable.

Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (click here)