Saturday, January 28, 2012

Pink Slime, Ammonium Hydroxide Fast Food Ground Beef Additive, Dropped By McDonald's Et Al.


It cost to feed yourself correctly. No matter how much you want to eat better if you don't have the money to do it then it is impossible­. Even the USDA breaks down the American diet into four plans:



*The Thrifty plan

*The Low-cost plan

*The Moderate cost plan

*The Liberal plan



http://www­.cnpp.usda­.gov/Publi­cations/Fo­odPlans/20­11/CostofF­oodOct2011­.pdf



Each successive plan cost more than the other and the nutritiona­l value increases with each level. Most people in today's economic climate can barely afford to eat the thrifty plan which contains the least nutritiona­l value. So the fact that stuff like this is put into cheap fast food isn't very surprising or at least shouldn't be.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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