Capitol have said they're being provided food that's "badly undercooked, raw, moldy, and even filled with metal shavings," according to a letter from the state's House delegation obtained by CBS News on Tuesday.
"It is clear that these contracted meals are poorly prepared, oftentimes inedible, and highly inadequate to support our soldiers," the 14 lawmakers said in the letter, which was sent to the chief of the National Guard Bureau at the Pentagon.
🚨NEW >> Michigan House members say troops guarding the Capitol have been **HOSPITALIZED** because their food has had metal shavings, moldy, or utterly undercooked...
The letter asks that the National Guard end its contract with its current food provider and either find a new provider or give the guardsmen a per diem for the remainder of their time at the Capitol. .
In his own letter, Michigan Senator Gary Peters said the guardsmen were "being fed chicken with the feathers still attached and raw ground beef." As a result, he said, the 983 members of the state's National Guard still protecting the Capitol were often forced to purchase food with their own money. .
In a Facebook Live broadcast on Tuesday night, Representative Bill Huizenga — one of the signees of the House letter — said he has been fighting for weeks to get the guardsmen adequate food after concerned friends and family members called his office.
But in recent days, he said, he received reports of metal shavings in food — potentially from steel wool pads — as well as more instances of raw, undercooked and "inedible" food
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