“No grilling, no barbecue: Recalled beef buried in landfill” was the lede story of my local paper in Livingston, Montana, this evening. The Livingston Enterprise led with a large photo of a front end loader burying recalled Hallmark/Westland beef.
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This weekend’s big news, as Bonnie has already reported, was the massive recall of beef processed by Chino, CA-based Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing company. There has been much well-deserved coverage of the animal cruelty aspects of this story and a general tip of the mainstream media hat to the debacle’s food-safety implications: downer cattle, as the […]
143 million pounds of beef recalled — but not to worry
The USDA’s largest-ever recall is now under way — “approximately 143,383,823 pounds” (give or take a few ounces?) of raw and frozen beef products from the disgraced Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Co. in Chino, California. That’s almost half the amount of beef and poultry recalled since 1994 in the United States.
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First major E. coli-related recall of 2008
Well, the meat’s from 2007, but why quibble when we have this exciting new graphic to guide your decision whether or not to eat a burger of questionable provenance?
Details: Rochester Meat of Minnesota is recalling approximately 188,000 pounds of ground beef products because — drumroll! — they may be contaminated with E. coli […]
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