Does HSUS Want 1,500,000 Cows to Die?  The media has been
feasting on a hot story the past week: News of so-called “pink
slime” infiltrating school food across America. As you might
expect, HSUS couldn’t help but chime in, as it does any time
there’s the potential to garner negative attention on animal
products used as food in furtherance of its vegan agenda.
(Strangely, HSUS seems eerily quiet every time there’s an E.
Coli outbreak in vegetables.)   Over at the Huffington Post,
HSUS chief food propagandist Michael Greger piled on. “Which is
more important,” he gasps, “corporate profits or the safety and
health of our loved ones?”  So what’s the truth behind the
rhetoric? The food in question is more accurately known as lean
finely textured beef or boneless lean beef trimmings. It’s used
in hamburgers and ground beef. Basically, it’s beef from
leftover parts of the cow. When the meat processors make various
cuts of steak, for example, little bits of beef are left over
amidst the trimmings and on the bones. An