Hey, do you eat hamburgers? I quit back in the early eighties.
If you still do eat burgers, you should check out this front page story from the NY Times yesterday, "The Burger That Shattered Her Life."
Kind of tells the journey of a burger. And it's not a pretty journey. Turns out the Meat Industry is just a bunch of cheap- ass sons of bitches who really don't care whether the ground beef you are cooking up on your stove is safe or not, as long as their profit margins are high.
As long as it's cheap, they are happy. Here's the nub of the story...
"Hamburgers were made from a mix of slaughterhouse trimmings and a mash-like product derived from scraps that were ground together at a plant in Wisconsin. The ingredients came from slaughterhouses in Nebraska, Texas and Uruguay, and from a South Dakota company that processes fatty trimmings and treats them with ammonia to kill bacteria. Using a combination of sources — a practice followed by most large producers of fresh and packaged hamburger — allowed Cargill to spend about 25 percent less than it would have for cuts of whole meat."
And what was it that destroyed that poor woman? E.COLI! And where does that nasty pathogen come from?
SHIT! Eat it.