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DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-11 07:12 PM
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Tainted Beef Leads To Grocery Recalls
Source: Associated Press (via KAKE.com)

Tainted Beef Leads To Grocery Recalls

KAKE.com
Reporter: Associated Press
Sunday, August 14, 2011

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At least three major grocery store chains are recalling certain packages of ground beef due to possible E. coli contamination. The recalls at Winn-Dixie Stores Inc., Publix Super Markets Inc. and Kroger Co. mainly in the southeastern U.S. stem from meat from National Beef Packaging Co. of Dodge City, Kan.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Friday that National Beef was recalling more than 60,000 pounds of beef after the Ohio Department of Agriculture found the bacteria.

The recalls affect products sold mainly in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina and Tennessee, but the meat could have been distributed nationwide.

The agriculture department says there have been no reports of illnesses. The company says it's investigating. E. coli can be deadly and can cause bloody diarrhea and other problems.


Read more: http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/National_Beef_Recalls_60000_Pounds_Of_Beef_127656958.html


- The thing I always wonder is, what happens to all this meat when it's recalled???

On second thought, never mind......

DeSwiss




"If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own
consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on." ~Terence McKenna
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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-11 07:21 PM
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Recalled meat is put in landfills, incinerated, or rendered for pet food.
Edited on Sun Aug-14-11 07:21 PM by Brickbat
There. That wasn't so bad, was it?
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-11 07:21 PM
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1. I think the military buys it.
I know the DOD was reported to be buying up all the Gulf Shrimp and seafood that no one else would buy.
( you can google that, true story, I posted about it when it happened)

Anyhow, thanks for this, I was going to be buying ground round tomorrow, but i think I will pay a bit more at our local meat store that grinds its own.
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Mojorabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-11 06:13 AM
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17. I had oysters yesterday from
apalachicola. It was at a seafood restaurant that specializes in them and they were big and very tasty. I was a bit hesitant when the waitress told me where they were from but they were excellent.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-11 07:22 PM
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2. Oh great - I did the cooking this weekend and it was mostly beef from Krogers
Look- don't sue me - the farm we used to get our meat from stopped selling.

Beef recalls make slightly less sense than baby cribs that kill -- lots of recalls on those for NO reason that I can understand.
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crunchie Donating Member (21 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-11 12:11 AM
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14. It's primarily the fillers
that have all the E-coli and salmonella. Just get some good beef and grind it up yourself, and throw in a little fat if you want to. Just don't buy ready made burger patties, as the fillers are dangerous if-- they back off on the ammonia! check out this video. yuck

http://honda-tech.com/showthread.php?t=2706257
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Cronus Protagonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-11 07:22 PM
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3. They will cook the recalled meat and sell it as a new product
The ecoli will be dead, and I understand it adds to the protein count of the cooked end product.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-11 07:32 PM
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4. Glad I am a vegetarian.
Otherwise, if I did eat meat I would probably have bought it from Kroger here in my neighborhood in North Georgia.
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customerserviceguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-11 08:50 PM
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7. Most recalls from the past several years
are food that vegetarians eat, too. Cleanliness is the real problem here, not the choice of one's diet/lifestyle.
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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-11 04:28 PM
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21. Fortunately, I usually buy my vegetables frozen.
And so far there have been no recalls on frozen foods.
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customerserviceguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-11 06:22 AM
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23. That won't work if you want most salad vegetables
And while I get some frozen veggies, too, freezing doesn't kill bacteria, it only keeps it from multiplying. It's the heat used to cook frozen vegetables that ultimately makes them safer to eat.

Again, we need food producers at all levels, of all kinds of foods to give a damn about food safety.
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drokhole Donating Member (759 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-11 07:33 PM
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5. You know that old horror story - "the call is coming from inside the house"...
...I tend to feel like the punch line here is "the poison is coming from inside the food supply!"

I'm righteously pissed whenever I consider how enormously fucked the food they supply to us is (dollars to chemical-laden donuts, this bacteria was borne from feed diet and living conditions of the cattle) - but, I'm not in the rant-y mood today, and I really just wanted tell you how much I love your McKenna quote!
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-11 08:19 PM
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6. Let people eat it and let the free market sort them out.
:silly:
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anamandujano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-11 04:09 PM
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20. You made me laugh.
I am at peak cynical though. I'm glad I can't afford beef. They'll figure out how to get me through yogurt no doubt.
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ShockediSay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-11 08:53 PM
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8. Who cares when we need deregulation? When we need jobs?
Think of all the funeral parlors that will get extra work
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-11 10:16 PM
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9. never buy meat in a tube....
buy fresh ground meat.my nephew has to put his name/id on every package of ground meat he makes.
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Xtraneous Donating Member (68 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-11 10:33 PM
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10. Evolution at work...
amazing they bothered to recall any of that puss-laden decomposing animal muscle. Soaking it in sugar and tomato sauce and then heating it until it turns a muddy gray is soooo appetizing. But then again, it's a long term meal that putrifies in that sagging belly for three whole days. Beef, what a bargain.
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SparkyOR Donating Member (33 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-11 11:10 PM
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11. watch "Food Inc"
here's the link... http://www.pbs.org/pov/foodinc/
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southerncrone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-11 11:29 PM
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12. It's always the CHUBS that seem to have the e. coli in these recalls
ever notice that? The chubs are cheaper & POOR people tend to buy them. Coincidence? I think not.
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-14-11 11:47 PM
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13. I never buy ground beef
I buy chuck...usually "boneless stew beef"...and grind it myself.

NO meat is 100% safe, but if you grind your own beef, you;re definitely ahead of the e coli curve.
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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-11 12:14 AM
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16. My Mom drilled that
into me. Of course I passed it on to my daughter along with a grinder.
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Fuddnik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-11 12:12 AM
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15. Oh goody!
The wife just went shopping this week-end at Publix and Winn-Dipsey. And everything is already split up, re-packaged, and in the freezer.

If I'm not around for a month or so, just tombstone me. I'm gone anyway!
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auburngrad82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-11 03:15 PM
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18. Read the Omnivore's Dilemma.
The author points out the fact that this type of E-Coli was pretty much unheard of until we started putting cattle in feed lots. They stand knee deep in shit all day. It's no wonder that they're covered in diseases that work their way into the food chain.

When cattle were pasture fed E-Coli wasn't an issue.
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Chemical Bill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-11 03:44 PM
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19. Government regulators are killing the country.
:sarcasm:
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-11 04:52 PM
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22. This is why I don't buy ground beef anymore
If I had the space, I would pull out my grinder and start doing it again, as I did during the 80's scandals....so instead, I just buy whole chunks.
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