Michelle Obama, take spent hens off the menu!
Since 2007, kids have been served 13.6 million pounds of chicken in school lunches that's so low-quality it would otherwise have become compost or dog food. This is chicken KFC refuses to serve.
Known as "spent hen" meat, the poultry industry has been using their influence to peddle this meat to the national school lunch program.
I think it's time we appealed to our country's most powerful advocate for child nutrition. As first lady Michelle Obama frequently points out: Our kids need, and deserve, better.
Michelle Obama, take spent hens off the menu!
Since 2007, kids have been served 13.6 million pounds of chicken in school lunches that's so low-quality it would otherwise have become compost or dog food. This is chicken KFC refuses to serve.
Known as "spent hen" meat, the poultry industry has been using their influence to peddle this meat to the national school lunch program.
I think it's time we appealed to our country's most powerful advocate for child nutrition. As first lady Michelle Obama frequently points out: Our kids need, and deserve, better.
Tell our senators to make food safer
Each year,
about 76 million Americans get sick from the food they eat. Each year
5,000 people die from foodborne illness. Recently, 380 million eggs
with a high risk of salmonella were only recalled months after people started getting sick.
The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) will give the FDA the authority to recall unsafe food; to inspect food processing facilities; and to require imported foods to meet the same standards as food produced in the U.S.
S. 510 passed the House of Representatives in July 2009, but the Senate has not yet brought it to a vote.
Sign the petition below to urge our senators to support the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510).
