USDA releases School Districts that got recalled beef
The U.S. Department of Agriculture released a list Thursday of all school districts nationwide that received beef included in last month's recall of 143 million pounds from a California slaughterhouse.
The 226-page document listed "school food authorities" - the rough equivalent of school districts - that received the meat. It was released after pressure from federal lawmakers, including Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D-Conn.
I frantically searched the PDF of School Districts that had received the tainted/recalled beef. Did it go to my children’s school?
I silently cried in relief when I saw that my children’s school district was not on the list. But then I saw that my friends and family members’ school districts locally were on the list!
I feel ashamed for my relief that at least the beef did not make it to my sons’ lunchroom.
The downer-cow beef did make it to the school lunch rooms of my nieces and nephews, and friend’s.
Also I am fooling myself if I think my children are safe just because there School District was not listed in the PDF report.
Foolish if I think the meat packing plants where their school’s meat is coming from is safe. Terrifyingly we has come to this point in America: that if we do NOT know and trust the source of the meat we consume, we cannot be sure it is not deadly.
A group of local parents plan to hold a press conference locally to ask our school districts to change the way we supply our school lunchroom. We want to KNOW the SOURCE.
We are going to try to implement a FARM to Cafeteria program.
I hope you will call your local paper and school districts and do the same, not only for the sake of your children but for all children.
PDF report.