US school lunches scare me
They're full of junk food, because a US government programme to aid agribusiness makes schools a dumping ground for dodgy end-of-life produce that couldn't otherwise be sold. Meanwhile, learning nothing from the new pneumonia that is resistant to all known antibiotics, the meat industry wants to pasteurise all meat to avoid having to remove the e.coli.
I’ve been reading Part 4 of French Week (previous parts mentioned reasons why France is good, why they weren’t cowards for surrendering in WW2, and other such stuff). Today’s entry compares French school lunch menus to US school lunch menus, and, frankly, it’s terrifying.
US schools appear to feed their children nothing but junk food - mostly because the US government has a cheap food programme that is primarily designed to help agribusiness.
Oh, and I read that the US meat industry is planning on tackling some of the problems that arise from heavily industrialised food production, such as, for instance, meat being chock full of diseases because the cattle are being fed ground up brains and the abattoirs are unsanitory. They’re planning on “cold pasteurising” all meat to kill all the germs. (This will, needless to say, modify the taste, but you can put that back in with artificial flavourings, right?)
This is scary, because Boing Boing today describes what it’s like to have SARS, a scary Hong Kong pneumonia that is resistant to pretty much all known antibiotics. How long before cattle develop diseases that survive pasteurisation?