Safety of Beef Processing is Questioned – New York Times

” Eight years ago, federal officials were struggling to remove potentially deadly E. coli from hamburgers when an entrepreneurial company from South Dakota came up with a novel idea: injecting beef with ammonia.”

New York Times Article

Massive Beef Recall

“A California company named Huntington Meat Packing has had to recall 864,000 pounds of ground beef last week, after USDA inspectors found it laced with the deadly E. coli 0157 strain.  According to Meat Wagon’s proprietary mathematical models, that’s enough dodgy burger to make 3.56 million Quarter Pounders, or a scary Quarter Pounder for every resident of Chicago (population 2.8 million), with 756,000 extra burgers for folks to have seconds. Wow.”

This is an interesting article at Grist; an online environmental news magazine.

“These days, three companies—Tyson, Cargill, and JBS—slaughter about 75 percent of cows raised in the United States. ”

Salmonella in our Peanut Butter?

Here are links to a recent outbreak of salmonella in the United States.

http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/salmonellatyph.html