Schools Lunches Will Be 'Pink Slime' Free
Montgomery County Public Schools will stop using meat with a finely textured beef additive known as "pink slime" for the 2012-13 school year.
Next year, public school cafeterias in Montgomery County will be serving up beef without the "pink slime." Spokesman Dana Tofig said Montgomery County Public Schools would join many other companies and organizations in ceasing the use of Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB) — referred to as "pink slime" — in its school lunches for the 2012-13 school year. Montgomery County Public Schools gets its beef from two sources: contracted vendors and the federal government's commodities program, Tofig told Patch. Tofig said LFTB was used by one MCPS vendor and some of the federal government's processors. "After this year, we will be opting out of purchasing or receiving any items that uses [LFTB] and we are adjusting the bids we have for our own …
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