Warning: This product may cause sickness, paralysis, and death

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http://www.grist.org/article/warning-this-product-may-cause-sickness-paralysis-a\

nd-death/

 

 

It’s hard to draw any other conclusion from Michael Moss’s New York Times

blockbuster investigative piece on E. coli in industrial beef, which is centered

on the plight of Stephanie Smith, a young dance instructor left comatose, near

death and now paralyzed from eating a single Cargill hamburger. Of course, a

“single hamburger†can include meat from hundreds, some would say thousands,

of animals. As Moss puts it:

 

Ground beef is usually not simply a chunk of meat run through a grinder.

Instead, records and interviews show, a single portion of hamburger meat is

often an amalgam of various grades of meat from different parts of cows and even

from different slaughterhouses. These cuts of meat are particularly vulnerable

to E. coli contamination, food experts and officials say. Despite this, there is

no federal requirement for grinders to test their ingredients for the pathogen.

This is why a food safety expert who helped develop tracking systems for E. coli

in meat can declare that, “Ground beef is not a completely safe product.†No

kidding. The problem, however, is not with E. coli in general. The problem is

that the particular strain of E. coli which infected Smith—known as E. coli

O157:H7—is virulent, deadly, persistent and endemic in industrial beef. How

virulent, deadly and persistent? This much:

 

 

go to the link for the whole article

Unfortunately, it ends with the familiar refrain of " just eat grass fed beef "

which is the all too common answer/excuse given out nowadays......

 

 

 

 

And everyone got excited about the technology. And I guess it was pretty

incredible watching a missile fly down an air-vent. Pretty unbeliveable. But

couldn't we feasibly use that same technology to shoot food at hungry people?

You know what I mean? Fly over Ethiopia, " There's a guy that needs a banana. "

" Shooooooooooooom "

the Stealth Banana

Smart Fruit!

 

Bill Hicks