Stephan:   If you ever doubted that we, as a society, don't care about our children it is time to wake up to the real world. Sure people care about their kids, and maybe their kids' friends, but kids in general, not in America. We don't really give a damn about our youth, yet we lie to ourselves almost daily about how concerned we are about them. The facts say otherwise: Seventeen million children face hunger in the U.S.., and have what sociologists euphemistically call 'food insecurity.' We have the highest physical abuse rate of any country in the industrialized world. A child in Texas is 11 times -- 11 times -- more likely to be physically abused by a family member to the point of hospitalization than a child in Italy. Our schools suck, and our students are less literate, less mathematically skilled than most students in developed nations around the world, and most have no exposure to the arts, or chances to exercise, in spite of a growing obesity epidemic. But this story really puts an exclamation point on it. We are prepared to spend hundreds of millions actually, to be truthful, probably billions of dollars, to push ourselves into the middle of a multi-religious non-democratic civil war in Syria. But we are going back to feeding our kids pink slime instead of food, because we don't want to spend the money to nourish them properly. I cannot adequately convey my disgust. The only good part of this story is learning that companies such as Costco -- a chain that began here in the Northwest that is a sort of socially progressive organically oriented antipode to WalMart -- doesn't carry pink slime, and never has, and that there is at least some movement towards labelling the stuff. As with GMOs, of course, Big Ag doesn't want to label it because they believe, correctly, that people won't buy it.