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Nebraska, Iowa Officials Defend LFTB In School Lunches

Jun. 8, 2012 Omaha World-Herald

While some schools reject lean finely textured beef, Nebraska and Iowa defend the product.

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Though most other states have rejected lean finely textured beef (LFTB), Nebraska and Iowa will continue to serve it in school lunches during the next school year because it's safe, lean and less expensive, state officials say.

USDA says that Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota are the only three states that opted to continue purchasing ground beef containing LFTB for the 2012-2013 school year. The largest producer of the product, Beef Products Inc., is based in Dakota Dunes, SD, and its only remaining plant is in South Sioux City, NE.

All other states chose to purchase more expensive beef that didn't contain the manufactured product through USDA’s National School Lunch Program.

Beef containing LFTB is about 3% cheaper than beef that doesn't contain the product, according to current market prices provided by USDA.

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on Jun 11, 2012

Nebraska, Iowa and South Dakota schools just proved to me that they are smarter than the rest of the school districts around the nation.
Of all the people who should not allow themselves to be swayed by misguided consumer hysteria it would seem to me that those in our schools should be at the top of the list.
I am so disgusted with Montana schools opting out of the use of LFTB in the school lunch programs that I called the folks at the Montana office of public instruction to find out just how uninformed they were. I was connected with the gal who orders the beef from USDA. She told me she is just as disgusted as I. Many of the lunch programs in the Montana schools had called her office to protest the use of LFTB.
So, either those folks running the schools and school lunch programs are misguided concerning the facts about cost and nutrition in their lunch programs or misinformed parents are pressuring the schools into making poor decisions. To those folks I have to say
"Get yourself educated!"

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