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McDonald’s drops use of ‘pink slime’ in U.S. meat
Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver can claim one more victory in his food revolution after McDonald’s stopped using what he called “pink slime” in its burgers.

On Thursday, McDonald’s USA announced it was discontinuing the use of ammonia hydroxide in its beef.

The Naked Chef had publicly denounced the use of the additive on his show, Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. He questioned how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration could allow the compound to be used in foods.

Ammonia hydroxide is made of water and ammonia and is used to kill bacteria. Typically it is used in household cleaning products.

On one episode of his show, Mr. Oliver said that beef producers take beef “trimmings” that would normally go to dog food and wash it with the compound until it is fit for human consumption.

“Imagine how happy an accountant is, you just turned dog food into what can potentially be your kids’ food,” he said on the episode. (Photo: Jean Levac/Postmedia News files)

“Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun”  Hold the pink slime, please…

DIRECTOR Kenneth Branagh was scouting island locations for the ‘Guernsey’ film yesterday, when he discovered that he had been nominated for an Oscar.

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solitaryforager:

Farmers v. Monsanto Solidarity Rally!

On January 31st, family farmers from across the county will take part in the first phase of the OSGATA et al. v. Monsanto court case filed to protect farmers from genetic trespass by Monsanto’s genetically modified (GMO) seed, which can contaminate organic and non-GMO farmers’ crops and open them up to abusive lawsuits.

As a result of aggressive lawsuits against farmers with contaminated crops, Monsanto has created an atmosphere of fear in rural America and driven dozens of farmers into bankruptcy. 

But farmers are fighting back!

The Federal District Court judge has agreed to hear oral arguments in this landmark case to decide whether or not this case will move forward.

Occupy Wall Street Food Justice, Occupy Big Food and Food Democracy Now! will assemble in solidarity with farmers on the front lines of the struggle against corporate domination of our food system.

#J31 #StopMonsanto

For more info on the case, check out:

www.fooddemocracynow.org
www.osgata.org
http://www.pubpat.org/ monsanto-seed-patents.htm

Monsanto is GOING DOWN

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wordsfalterme:

An unexpected side effect of the 2010 flooding in parts of Sindh, Pakistan, was that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters; because of the scale of the flooding and the fact that the water took so long to recede, many trees became cocooned in spiderwebs. People in the area had never seen this phenomenon before. 

Remind me not to go anywhere near a place after a flood - especially Pakistan.

Amazing.

oatmeal:

It’s snowing in Seattle today and every single person is having the exact same conversation

early-onset-of-night:

THEN THINGS WOULD BE EXACTLY AS THEY ARE NOW

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Russia ready for evolution rather than ‘violent revolution’ if democracy fails

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thedailywhat:

Wiki Dependency of the Day: Katie Notopoulos is using her Twitter account to catalog the complaints emanating from Millennials worried about how the Great Wikipedia Blackout of 2012 is going to affect their school projects.

[@katienotopoulos.]

This actually makes my heartrate speed up. Not kidding. I’ll be screen-grabbing the face right off of this Twitter account for the next couple of days.

No, mattbockenfeld, I don’t think your professor will understand.

Love a good protest! But in the old days, we used actual books from the library!

tastefullyoffensive:

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Sign of the Times

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