should we just stop eating beef all together?! w9

     I have been thinking a lot about the Taco Bell controversy over their beef. Taco Bell now has commercials stating that their beef is eighty eight percent USDA approved. I guess this claim is a step up from only about thirty percent beef. Although Taco Bell claims that they were wrongly accused of this fact, why would there be a lawsuit against them? It just makes me wonder who is lying here.
     The public has a right to know exactly what kind of beef from fast food chains they are eating. After everything we have learned about fast food industries, I really don't know if I can trust any of the meat anymore! The USDA says that beef has to be at least thirty five percent to be advertised as beef but is that even safe? I believe there should be a higher standard than that. What is the other seventy percent of beef? It can't all be seasoning and spices. This means that most fast food places are using fillers for their meat, in which we have no clue what those fillers are.
     After this class, I have been traumatized by secrets of the food industry and sometimes wish I lived in a different country. America runs to heavily on fast food. I use to eat so much of it, but now instead I am eating gross dining hall food along with unhealthy frozen foods from the market. In my position, I just can't win as of right now!
     I definitely agree with Gabby's presentation about how OU's food needs to change. I work at Boyd Dinning hall and I see how the food is prepared, and it wouldn't surprise anyone in class to how disgusting it is. I was washing pots and pans when a cook brought back two deep pans of burnt cauliflower that nobody in the grab-and-go line touched. The cook said "I don't know why we have that, nobody eats it."
     This made me think of how we are all choosing unhealthy choices here at the dining hall but that's because they put out nasty cheap vegetables out! Other than salad, the best they could come up with is cauliflower?! It just makes me wonder what are these fast food companies and cafeteria institutions in schools thinking!