Posted on 11/03/2015 2:19:45 PM PST by LibWhacker
This is how they get hamburger up to $10.00/lb. Someone infects the meat and zoom zoom zoom! Houston, we have a problem. There is a hamburger shortage in America = supply and demand strategy.
The Unwashed Obama Illegals again ?
Buy grass-fed and avoid this problem
I don’t usually buy my hamburger in 80lb boxes.
Supermarkets do.
That looks good. Yours? That’s a serious looking home grinder! Everything looks impeccably clean. I’d hate to see the “kitchen” the tainted meat in this article came from.
... Buy grass-fed and avoid this problem ...
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How does that solve the problem?
A lot of people just do not seem to understand...
Any meat could be -tainted- or -contaminated-
A ribeye or a tbone or a sirloin would only be tainted on the -outside-
and the surface contamination is killed by cooking.
For any ground meat, however, in the grinding process,
what -was- on the outside is now on the -inside-
and surface cooking will not kill the contamination.
If you cook your burgers and other ground meats -well done-
then it is not a problem.
Cows that are fed grass (their natural diet) have intact intestinal flora which enhances their immunity. And their meat has been shown to be not only nutritionally superior, but clean & uncontaminated as well. Conversely, the corn fed cows tend to be sicker, have more inflammation and their meat is high in Omega 6 fatty acids which cause inflammation in humans who consume their meat.
Contamination is usually introduced during slaughter and packaging due to substandard sanitation, and is not inherent in the neat itself.
What stores carry this ground meat and which stores are safe to by from?
Point taken. I will modify my original position to say eating grass fed beef can reduce the risk of E. coli. In theory it is still possible but hasn’t happened that I’ve found thru researching the topic, and the animal is healthier overall.
I buy frozen ground grass fed beef at Trader Joes, fresh beef at Whole Foods, and sometimes source locally through farmers committed to pasturing their cows. There are also websites you can find that will ship anywhere in the U.S. Just do a google search. :-)
I hate well-done beef.
then stick to ribeyes!
I think we agree.
A grass-fed animal is no doubt a healthier animal,
but the diet of the animal is not the source of this e coli.
Uh, no. Nice conspiracy theory, but that's not what it is about. It comes from packing the meat where it is slaughtered. The cattle are snuffed, and the poop is all around. A little poop gets on the sides of beef as they go through the processing plant, and then the poop gets ground up in with the meat. Since poop is mostly e coli anyway, this is how meat gets contaminated. Steaks and roasts don't have that problem because you can wash them off.
Of course, the price of meat goes up because of the costs associated with recalls and lawsuit payouts. The supply goes down for a while as the meat plants have to shut down, clean up and get inspected to satisfy the regulators.
Always get your ground beef from a full-service supermarket or butcher shop where there is no poop.
Thanks it loos like Trader Joe’s or Sprouts for me.
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