Something to talk about...

I hope all of your internship are going well so far!

According the Class Information, we are supposed to have 5 posts about anything we want to write about... This will be my first.

A bit of exciting news, I officially applied for graduation this week and am contemplating on ordering my cap and gown. I have a cap bedazzling date with miss Holly Williamson, who is also in this class, sometime this semester which I am really looking forward to. But that's not what i would like to talk about.

I am currently taking a class, Intro to Urban Planning, where the professor likes to updates us on news, any news, mostly political. Anyway, this week he showed us an article called "McDonald's confirms that its no longer using 'pink slime' chemical in hamburgers." I have attached the link to the article if you are interested in reading it. The 'pink slime' the article is referring to is ammonium hydroxide, which is a chemical used in fertilizers and households cleaners, among other things. This chemical is being used in the process of making ground beef. Not just McDonald's used it. The ground beef you find in grocery stores and other fast food places uses it as well. A video about 'pink slime' is also included on the page and we watched it in class. It pretty much shows the process of how ground beef is made. I don't want to state my opinion, but instead want to hear what you guys think about this article. Enjoy!

P.S. Ammonium hydroxide is not required to be put on the label for ground beef.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mcdonald-confirms-no-longer-using-pink-slime-chemicals-171209662.html