Schools will be able to choose between 'pink slime' and meat

The beef industry has caved in (sort of) to the rallying cry of thousands of people who don't want kids eating pink slime. Quick reminder: Pink slime is the low-cost, ammonia-treated, finely textured, ground beef filler that lands on your kid's lunch tray on "meat day." Manufacturer Beef Products, Inc. has insisted it's perfectly healthy, but has suffered an online skewering -- including an e-petition to rid school cafeterias of the substance that quickly racked up over 220,000 signatures. While McDonald's totally removed the stuff from its kitchens, schools will be given a choice between beef patties containing pink slime and fattier burgers made without. As @chelliepingree tweets, "Only 1 word to describe it: gross."

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