Posted on 08/24/2015 9:47:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
Store-bought ground beef often contains a variety of bacteria that can make humans sick and is resistant to the drugs used to treat it, according to new data from Consumer Reports.
While most bacteria in meat can be killed when cooked correctly, many Americans prefer to eat their meat rare, putting them at a greater risk for illness—especially when the meat comes from conventionally raised cows, which are treated with antibiotics and hormones, according to a new Consumer Reports study. The study found that nearly 20% of ground beef in the U.S. tested from conventionally raised cows had bacteria resistant to three or more classes of antibiotics. Only 9% of ground beef that was sustainably made had antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
For the report, Consumer Reports purchased and tested 300 packages of conventionally and sustainably produced ground beef sold in stores around the U.S. The meat was tested for five common types of bacteria that can be found in beef: Clostridium perfringens, E. coli, Enterococcus, Salmonella and Staphylococcus aureus. Bacteria of some kind was found in all of the beef samples,
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More than 80% of conventional ground beef had two types of bacteria and nearly 20% of the samples contained C. perfringens, which causes close to a million cases of food poisoning every year. “There’s no way to tell by looking at a package of meat or smelling it whether it has harmful bacteria or not,” Urvashi Rangan, executive director of the Center for Food Safety and Sustainability at Consumer Reports, said.“You have to be on guard every time.”
The research also found that 10% of the samples had a strain of S. aureus that produces a toxin that can make people ill and is not killed even when the meat is cooked properly.
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and then you cook it
Either grind your own or quit eating all together.
My free advice....
Oh, okay. That’s why I can’t remember one time getting sick from ground beef (even pink ground beef). I’ve ate plenty of ground beef worth of entire cows.
We only eat grass fed beef from local sustainable farms. It’s more expensive because it’s not subsidized.
Anyone eating rare ground meat gets what they deserve. Ecoli 157 made eating anything but well done ground meat foolish.
Another attempt to stop Americans from eating meat, because it offends the religion of the Left.
The ground cows pick up dangerous bacteria in their burrows.
and it is sitting in the Senate
I almost never have stomach problems, and I’ve eaten hamburgers by the uncounted thousands. I guess I’ll just continue eating them and tell folks that I like living dangerously...
I, too, always thought that was the point of cooking it. It’s like these people think they’re discovering something revolutionary. Geeze...
Apparently I deserve a happy life. At least, that is what I get.
Meat comes from cows?
Who knew?
I’ve survived 73 years of it.
And that is why I only eat “Pink Slime”.
What do you call a cow with no legs?
ground beef
In the leadership chair.
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