Are we being just a bit alarmist? Been eating burgers - rare - for better than half a century without a single problem.
I believe tat most people pass of an e-coli infection without much trouble. A day or two of feeling queezy with diarhea and then you're fine. But there are plenty of exceptions. I won't eat anything but well done hambrgers from now on.
Are we being just a bit alarmist? Been eating burgers - rare - for better than half a century without a single problem.
For whatever reason e-coli has become more widespread in our food supply over the last decade. It’s a similar problem to salmonella. 30 years ago I’d have no problem eating a raw egg. Today I would avoid it.
Why we haven’t been able to prevent these diseases from being rare to being all too commonplace in our food supply, I don’t know. Are they signs of the end times, inevitable problems with mass production, or as the Star Trek hippie episode claimed “modern technology creates its own set of diseases”?
Regardless, they are here and we have to deal with them.
Personally, I’m more concerned about “mad cow” disease as it can’t be killed by cooking. I know we are taking precautions, but I believe neural material (brains, spinal chords, etc...) can still be ground into feed for cattle if the animal is less than 3 years old (could be wrong, someone needs to fact check me on that.) Since this disease is spread to cattle primarily by the use of cattle neural material used as feed for other cattle, it seems foolish to allow it at all given the potential problem.