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Posted by: TechnologyExpert 3 years, 4 months agoAn Iowa-based company has recalled more than 5,000 lbs. of ground beef after tests detected a harmful strain of the E. coli bacteria, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday.
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dr-don-from-denver
Oct. 7, 2006, 11:49 a.m.Much of this stuff is labeled "organic" and all bears the USDA seal!! This is a government that says it will protect our kids in school???? Fat chance!! (They can't even protect kids in the Congressional Page program, I would Hastert a guess!!)
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tehranchik
Oct. 7, 2006, 2:12 p.m.Has anyone read the book "Crimes Against Nature" by Robert Kennedy Jr.? He talks about the pig farmers here in America dumping raw pig feces on crop fields. The feces is actually supposed to be treated and dumped....that's just far too costly. Give the book a read. Lots of facinating stuff for all to know.
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Taganan
Oct. 7, 2006, 2:45 p.m.If it weren't for the "organic" lobby the meat could be irradiated which would kill the e-coli. The "natural" food nuts prevent the government from allowing this method.
It's RADIATION!!! Be very afraid! -- doesn't matter that irradiation is perfectly safe.
Dr. Don from Denver - You sound like one of the Leftist eco-freaks, probably vegan and a supporter of eco-terrosists like PETA. If you think the USDA does a bad job, try living in some other countries, even in Europe, and see if you still think its so bad.
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Phantom
Oct. 7, 2006, 2:58 p.m.Well this is not a bit surprising since our "friends" at the USDA cut back on testing the meat for Mad Cow (by90%) and I guess much of everything else. The USDA goes into the same catagory with FDA, FCC,etc. they could care less about the American public.
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dr-don-from-denver
Oct. 7, 2006, 3:28 p.m.Taganan: Are you ever off base!! Actually, I think PETA means People Eating Tasty Animals, and I favor irratiating a whole host of foods, as long as it is done properly.
I doubt "the organic lobby" has enough money to have much influence --Bet they couldn't have afforded your Republican friend/pimp Abramoff. The USDA has been in bed with the meat processors for a long time! Even if our meat is safer than other countrys' supplies, it doesn't mean we should have to go through these continual failures of the system that endanger our health.
Jerryskid1: Check out the allowable amount of rat feces and weevil infestation for flour in commercial bakeries.
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stephen-johnson
Oct. 7, 2006, 4:21 p.m."Is it safe for me to eat me spinach yet?" - Popeye the Sailor
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madshortchick
Oct. 7, 2006, 4:26 p.m.I agree with Tehranchik that the book "Crimes Against Nature" by RFK Jr. is worth a read! I also highly recommend "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser. If you want to know what is actually in the meat the corporations give to our kids for their school lunches...
Also, yesterday they recalled 5,000 pounds of E.Coli laden meat- but they probably let a lot more meat go out to consumers. They would rather people die of E.Coli poisoning than cut into their profits...
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Bacalao
Oct. 7, 2006, 5:44 p.m.I have read the whole article. The one word you have thrown around in distaste "organic" is not in it.
I just watched "thank you for smoking. In the end the MOD (merchants of death) Squad had three new members. one of them was food.
And yes the meat industry does regulate itself. they sign the checks for the F.D.A. inspectors. Thats like letting a child molestor babysit your children, or mayby a draft dodger run your war. ( sorry I just had to jump the gun, every thing here turns to politik anyway. )
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snowman36r
Oct. 7, 2006, 6:03 p.m.Bacalao
Have you ever worked somewhere were there is a FDA insector?
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madshortchick
Oct. 7, 2006, 6:54 p.m.Good comment Bacalao! You seem to know how this all works. The fox is left watching the hen house when the government & the big corporations work together...( I liked the analogy of the child molester babysitting the children- how apropos!)
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CreolaBelle
Oct. 7, 2006, 8:18 p.m.Numerous people are unaware of how some cattle and pigs are raised to go to market. I have a friend whose father owns a Dairy Farm he takes a big tanker truck and pumps the sludge that has been seperated from the water from the City sewer sanitation.
This sewage sludge is poured onto his alfalfa fields to fertilize them. We have now discovered e coli can be in spinach fields, beef, and what else?
Farmers use insulin to fatten pigs up before market. That is not food all of us should be eating.
Allergic to penicillin, I have been told that beef get dozens of antibiotic doses until they go to market, they say the penicillin can affect the allergic.
I believe we are given too little information concerning the animal products we eat. I have gone as vegetarian as possible except for a few foods.
It no longer seems like the taste and fuel benefits are worth eating the meats, unless I raise it.
As the Dr. said Organic simply means carbon based. Humans are carbon based.
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CodeNameHawk
Oct. 7, 2006, 8:41 p.m.Once I wanted some REAL ground meat, and asked the Butcher to grind up a couple of round steaks for me. He said it won't do any good, cause you will not get ALL of the steak. I asked why, and he said, cause you will get the meat left in the grinder BEFORE I would grind your's. I believe bacteria sets in from the meat left in the grinder for a length of time before they ground some more in there.
Have you ever watched a butcher cut your meat while you wait. They will have two tubs (sitting below the butcherblock) - one for good scraps and one to be pitched. So I assume meat to be used later gets tainted from sitting there. Its best to buy a hind-quarter, half or a whole calf, cut to your liking then put it in your freezer.
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kiek45
Oct. 7, 2006, 8:48 p.m.Take your chances when you listen to what they say. Blind trust in a fiinancially bound institution is a one time game of russian roulette with your health.
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CodeNameHawk
Oct. 7, 2006, 8:50 p.m.I dont believe its from the what a calf or pig eats, it's how clean they are in butchering the meat. I also feel, meat that is outdated and put out for sale, but doesn't get sold, is ground up and sold as hamburger. You never know what kind of meat you get when you buy HAMBURGER -- I never buy it. To be perferctly safe, buy a grinder and grind up your own round steaks when they have them on sale.
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kiek45
Oct. 7, 2006, 8:53 p.m.Code: Very true. Grind your own, but have you ever heard the saying; You are what you eat? Pigs are what they eat, and you are what you eat.. So you are what they eat if you eat a pig.. Correct? or not?
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TheAdMan
Oct. 7, 2006, 9:18 p.m.Thanx bacalao for pointing out that the article does not mention "organic" anywhere in it. Although, I would not be suprised if these mysterious e.coli outbreaks ALL get blamed on organic farms, it would be a good excuse for more Fed. regulation and open the gateways for the pharma hormone-manufacturers.
People need to stop freaking out over e.coli it's actually a very easy bacteria to contain and kill, as soon as I heard the spinach news, it made me hungry so I made some spinach dip and ate it down with some sourdough bread, it was delicious, and guess what- I'm still alive.
In my humble opinion it's just more media fear-mongering.
I think this nation IS in the middle of a CJD crisis tho. Now that is something to be worried about. And anybody who thinks irradiating food is good or that it doesn't have an ill effect needs to do some research, It completely kills the nutrition of the food, your eating "dead" food.- not how it sounds, like I said do some research.
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spiver
Oct. 7, 2006, 11:46 p.m.I have a relative who is a cattle buyer.
He won't eat ground beef no matter who cooks it, just steak.
Does that tell you anything?
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tchef
Oct. 8, 2006, 8:37 a.m.The biggest problem with gound beef is that in the grinding process the bacteria that is normally only present on the outside of the meat cut is mixed throughout the meat. When a steak is cooked (unless the steak is old and the bacteria has been multipliing) the majority of bacteria is on the outside and killed by the direct contact with the heat.
Since the Reagan administration the USDA has been practicly run by the meat industry. Fast food nation is an excelant read. I recomend it to everybody.
The only spinach that is a problem is fresh. Any thing that was frozen has been cooked (they blanch it before they freeze it) That's why you didn't get sick from your spinach dip.
I know this stuff. I've been a chef for over 25 years and have been certified for foodservice sanitation in 2 states and the District of Columbia.
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snowman36r
Oct. 9, 2006, 10:42 p.m.Kiek45
If a tree falls in the forest and no one there to hear it does it make a sound?
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Bacalao
Oct. 15, 2006, 7:58 a.m.Yes I have worked in both chicken plants (yuck) and turkey plants. If the meat gets polluted they dip it in bleach. If you want to see a good reason not to eat chicken, get a job at a fast food chicken outlet like KFC.
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