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Due to harmful bacteria that slipped into some part of a Tyson processing plant’s operations, ground meat from more than 331 cows will end up in the garbage. The company is recalling 131,300 pounds of ground beef after Ohio Department of Health inspectors found E. coli O157:H7 in a sample.
The figure of 331 trashed cows is based on an industry average of 596 pounds of red meat and trim left after a cow is slaughtered and unusable bits are cut away. Subtract 27 pounds of variety meat (tongue, heart, liver, tripe, brains, and sweetbread). Then take off another 146 pounds of fat, bone and miscellaneous loss. That leaves approximately 396 pounds of meat per cow. Divide 131,300 by 396, and that gives 331.57 cows.
That is an inexact figure, of course. Only the ground beef is being thrown out. The organ meats were sold separately. The hide likely went off to a tanner. Some of the meat was eaten and made four siblings in Butler County, Ohio, sick. Two children needed medical attention. The 9-year-old ended up in the hospital for 10 days. That led to the recall.
The family purchased the ground beef from a Kroger supermarket so all meat with the same code is being recalled. Full details are on the Tyson Web site.
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+ add your ownYes. I was in the catering business and processed foods are not healthy for us, throw them all in the trash bins.
Factory Farming. GMO Produce. Fish Farms. All gross. All should go back to natural. Then we would have real food to eat. The junk that gets put into stuff like this is terrible. People are getting sick and dying because we pump hormones & antibiotics into animals, and modify everything. If nature wanted it that way, we'd have it.
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Contaminated meat. Contaminated fruits and vegatables. Bad drugs. Unproven alturnative medicine. Millions being spent on politcal campaigns. Not enough money for safty net programs.People dieing all over the place, an explodeing population.
You'd think that sooner or later people would figure out that there are way more than 2 sides to every issue. There are multiple facets. Life is more a buffet than a carved in stone reality.The human race has been around for thousands of years, ingesting every manner of bad/good stuff, and I don't see much evidence of a massive die off, except in certain areas. I hate waste like this because of a small sample. Certainly we can invent some simple way to test our food as we bring it into our homes to insure it is not contaminated with stuff we would prefer not to ingest, so that not so much has to be trashed because of one limited batch.
why ?
It seems recalls on food seem to happen. This is ground beef, today it is canalopes. It's too bad we can't trust our food sources so we need to keep on top of it.
Why are the vegans trying to push their diet on us? Yes there is meat recalled but this is factory farms not all meat is contaminated oh you forgot about that and the fact about melons being recalled and all the veg recalls. Anything to try to make a point. The article was fine it didn't even get into it.
I've been really enjoying Boca Burgers and once in awhile really want the original deal. Articles like this are convincing me I need to keep loving my Boca Burgers and Morning Star Grillers!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
I have NO use for Tyson. They treat the animals horribly and I won't buy their products. Ugh!
Just a liitle truth for all the smug vegans,,, Listeria anyone?
http://www.producesafetyproject.org/fact_sheets?id=0005
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