864,000 pounds of US ground beef recalled

To mojojuju:
Perhaps that's my agenda, I try to promote people's health and safeguard our Nature.

It seems interesting that the Veg only folks only show up when a meat scare arrives and they never ever mention recalled veg due to similar bacteria recall! Unless you are fully self sufficient.....and I mean fully....you are always at risk.

I forget who said that you're more likely to get struck by lightening than you are to get sick from e. coli bacteria. And as cooking meat fully kills e. coli and virtually eliminates your chances of getting sick from e. coli bacteria, I'd say there's less to worry about when eating beef than there is in driving a car or going golfing.

Please do not forget that e. coli contamination effects vegetable foods like spinach, including organic spinach for you die hard anti-meat eaters. Some of you may try hard to not realize this.

I'm not going to give any advice about preventing illness due to eating raw vegetables contaminated with e. coli, but if you are eating beef then do yourself a favor and virtually eliminate your chances of getting sick by fully cooking it before you eat it.

There are a lot of appliances on the market today that can cook meat. Go find one and join the others who enjoy the safe consumption of fully cooked meat.

I know a lot of you have a very anti-meat sentiment, but come on, you're making yourselves look like fools (except to others like yourselves) by using this article to bitch and to pitch your anti-meat dogma.

As for me, I like my burgers and steaks well done. I am also proficient in 21st century methods of kitchen sanitation. For those reasons, added to the fact that e. coli contamination is indeed rare (unlike how I cook my beef), I feel I have nothing to fear when I enjoy beef.

I stopped eating meat a few months ago ... boy, am I glad. By eating a balanced diet with enough grains, legumes, fruits and vegetables, there's no reason to expose yourself to these types of dangers.

Think about it. Industrial meat offers us rotting flesh, raised under "only G-d knows what" kind of conditions, stored who-knows-where, in what kind of temperature, given which drugs/hormones/antibiotics? Doesn't that scare you?

OK, as for the omnivore issue ... maybe it's the industry and not the meat? Want to eat healthy and safe meat? Raise it yourself, humanely, clean and respectfully. I don't think the meat industry really cares how healthy the meat is for you. It's a business!

watch food inc. makes me really glad that i've been a strict vegetarian for 5 years.

Meat eaters, fuckin' get sick and learn a lesson, or don't get lucky and die or have your kid die, you fuckin' chavs. Murder comes with a price.

XVX for life, R.A.S.H. 'til death.

If you don't think beef is safe, then DON'T EAT IT. Don't log on to hope there's a story about a recall so you can talk about how we're dying from red meat. Just don't eat it. If we weren't supposed to eat meat, we wouldn't have Canine teeth. We're omnivores. Stop complaining.

To mojojuju:
You are right when you say that it's a small amount to be recalled compared to the one being produced.
But when that 0.003 % actually kills a few people and one of them happens to be your child would you still take this statistic as an acceptable reality?
I would think twice about what I am eating and what I am feeding to my children.
From the article:
"The CDC reports that there are about 76 million cases of food-related illnesses reported every year, with more than 300,000 people hospitalized and 5,000 deaths. There were at least nine major recalls of beef products in 2009."

Factory meat is hardly ever inspected . Does this mean they are stepping up inspections ? Though , I do not recall the last time I ate beef , I am very glad they actually caught it before anyone died . Unlike the peanut butter one , the dairy one , the tomato one ....... factory food is not good for so many reasons .

Welcome to the quality of food production in the US.

I'm guessing a lot of vegans will see this article on Current as an invitation to preach their propaganda.

It doesn't seem to get to the masses of people that Red meat is the cause of colon cancer and too these animals are no different that humans, they can get then same kind of cancers and diseases as humans and if you ever watched the TV show Diagnosis unknown from human medical aspect, how do you think the Dept of Agriculture treats a diagnosis unknown in animals? When I was growing up, Salmonella and Botulism and E-Coli were virtually unknown except in the Bio Chemistry books, but corporate farming for corporate profits have made many short cuts and found ways to recycle many of their products and re-enter them back into consumer consumption to save money and take care of their share holders and what if a few of their share holders should die from these diseases, good riddance.

We humans don't really give a damn about human life , why should we care about a couple of thousand dumb animals. I know of a good way to dispose of them. Give this 864,00 popunds of ground beef to Goldman Sachs and let them repackage for food to the third world countries and to the terrorist organizations. They can wrap it up in paper from the Federal Reserve and sell it as special form of derivatives and junk bonds and then take out special insurance in the cayman islands to make sure that they are covered from both sides. Incidently have you ever noticed the location of the Cayman Islands, just one little quake and it could become another water bourne island like Port Royal, Jamaica.

They could freeze it and then give it to a place who needs it. If it's frozen and then cooked there's no way it's gonna still have bacteria in it--

Damn, I just made lasagna with some Trader Joe's ground beef.

great. so can we please get the stores that this stuff was sold to or any brand names it might be under? i hate when they do this without giving the relevant info out.

our food system is horrible, but it seems that they caught this before it broke out. i guess they are slowly stepping up...

Beeffalo.

Mojo,

That's only the meat we CAUGHT through limited, limited, limited inspections.

We do not inspect 100 percent of all beef. We only have a very small handful of inspectors and we inspect -- what? -- maybe 10 percent? Less?

So we can't assume the rest of the meat is "safe" because it basically hasn't been inspected at all.

864,000 pounds doesn't seem so significant when considering the US produces over 26 Billion pounds of beef per year. That makes the 864K pounds of E.coli seasoned beef turn out to be about 0.003% of the US annual beef production. I don't have a beef with anyone, but I'm just saying people need to put things into perspective.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/news/bsecoverage.htm

finally some good news

Can't we switch to Bison already??? Bison is a leaner meat & better for people!!! Also a ban on feeding animals a bunch of drugs MIGHT just be a good thing to do! Humans get enough drugs without them being in what we eat!!! The ways a lot of food items are processed really need to be looked at! This is not the first time something like this has happened & unless some changes are made,it will not be the last!

Ground is no longer sound.......

That's just simple math.

You cannot cram that many cows into that confined an area! Disease and bacterial infections are inevitable.

Now toss in only having a handful of meat inspectors in the US -- far too few to actually inspect most of the factories and the meat itself -- and these kind of outbreaks are a mathematical certainty....aren't they?