February 27th, 2008 @ 12:16 pm
Meat Recall
USDA announces biggest meat recall in U.S. history - Slashfood
That’s not a typo. It really is 143 million pounds. It’s the largest meat recall in U.S. history. The beef comes from the Westland/Hallmark Meat Company and goes back to February 1, 2006. The USDA says that cattle at the California factory was mistreated and that there were other health regulations that weren’t met.
Impact of beef recall widens; soups, sauces affected
The nation’s largest meat recall could grow into its largest food recall as companies destroy products with any amount of the 143 million pounds of beef recalled last week.
It just goes on and on. I still can’t really understand why they are recalling meat that went out 2 years ago if no one has gotten sick and there are absolutely no reports of any sort of contamination. Just to scare people?
The cows were mistreated so they are recalling the beef? To me, all cows are mistreated on some level when they are killed for their tasty tasty meat. So someone yelled at a cow or punched it? Its wrong or whatever, but honestly, is recalling the beef going to undo the wrong of abusing the cow? NO!
I like a steak medium / medium rare, but I only will order it medium rare at a nicer restaurant, and if its ground beef, medium well is where it needs to be. Most of the time I use beef at home it is for something like tacos. There is no way that any sort of contamination can survive being boiled for 20 minutes as the rice I mix in with the beef cooks so I have never really been worried about the recalls. It just seems like wasting food for no real reason.
