Sure you want to eat that burger? - (Men’s Health)
February 21, 2008 – 7:16 pmhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23258904/
http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/02/articles/e-coli/fecal-contamination-will-continue-to-occur-and-shit-always-flows-downstream/index.html
It’s a Friday night in Missoula, Montana, when Groneberg and his buddy Eric walk into the Oxford Café and orders scrambled eggs and brains, nicknamed “He Needs ‘Em.”
“Impossible,” the waitress says flatly. “Since mad cow disease, the USDA won’t let us serve that.”
“I don’t know why you’d want to eat brains,” Eric says. This from a guy who thinks nothing of gutting an elk.
Groneberg says that no one in Missoula (or anywhere else in the United States) had ever been sickened from eating mad-cow-contaminated meat, but follows Eric’s lead and order the state-sanctioned part of the cow, though if we’re talking food safety, he really should pass. Turns out, the humble hamburger may be the most dangerous item on the menu.
You know there’s trouble when your average American carnivore thinks twice about biting into a burger. The appetite-killer in question: Escherichia coliform, a.k.a. E. coli, the bacteria behind the spate […]
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