Cargill recalls US ground beef after salmonella outbreak

[OhioChick]

Source: Reuters

Mon Jul 23, 2012

(Reuters) - Nearly 15 tons of ground beef have been recalled by a unit of agriculture conglomerate Cargill Inc in connection with a seven-state outbreak of salmonella across the northeast and Virginia, the United States Department of Agriculture said.

Cargill Meat Solutions, based in Wichita, Kansas, voluntarily recalled 29,339 pounds of fresh ground beef products produced at its Wyalusing, Pa., plant that may be contaminated with salmonella, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced late Sunday.

The products were produced on May 25, 2012, and shipped to distribution centers in Connecticut, Maine and New York. The recalled meat was sold in Hannaford supermarket stores in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont, said the USDA.

Though the meat's use-by date has passed and it is no longer sold at retail, the recall was made on concerns that some product may be frozen in consumers' freezers, the USDA said.

Read more: http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/07/23/usa-beef-recall-idINL2E8INA7320120723

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. *runs to check the freezer*

[AtomicKitten]

2. Cows killed for nothing. :(

[Ezlivin]

3. As a vegetarian

I'm in full agreement with your sentiments.

Yet I fear for the safety of our food supply. This sort of stuff seems to be occurring more regularly and even though I don't worry about eating contaminated meat I have plenty of friends and family members who are in jeopardy.

[Journeyman]

4. Not to mention, salmonella in our vegetables. . .

Me? I don't worry either. But I remain vigilant about everything agribusiness provides. . .

[Ezlivin]

7. Killer okra

You summed up all my fears with one word: agribusiness.

It's distressing because I come from a farming family. My grandparent's farm in Canada is now an oil patch. Thankfully they've passed on and don't have to see what became of it.

[AtomicKitten]

5. Oh I agree: Factory farming is jeopardizing the health of this nation.

Not to mention the unspeakable cruelty.
http://www.mercyforanimals.org

There is virtually no oversight of this godawful industry.

[Doremus]

15. I'm with you, AtomicKitten.

Our entire food supply is subject to the whims of a few plutocrats. They couldn't give two shits whether they kill people eating their products, for sure the innocent creatures they torture and murder every day aren't even worthy of a nano-second's thought.

[RebelOne]

10. Vegetarian here also,

but friends and family are meat eaters.

[madrchsod]

6. dam that meat in a tube sure is good eat`n

i buy from the guy down the street...if it ain`t good he`s out of business

[tosh]

8. Cargill Meat Solutions...???

Just the name... <<barf>>

[valerief]

9. I'm glad I stopped eating beef a decade ago. nt

[DeSwiss]

11. The Evolution Of The NWO Farm.

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[fasttense]

12. Free trade and deregulation at its best.

Contaminated foods are just to be expected when you grind up and mix together over 500 beef cattle. When you turn your food over to corporations whose only goal is making a profit, then you are bound to have contamination at every level of processing. Cost cutting means more profit and poorer quality.

Buy from your local farmer, the meat is healthier for you, inspected more frequently and not likely to have salmonella or mas cow.

[DeschutesRiver]

14. I watched a ridiculous video from Cargill last year

where they were bragging about their process for making 100% that their meat was clean and would never have these very problems. It was disturbing enough seeing all the junk they hosed the carcasses down with, but really worse to know that it doesn't get the results they were guaranteeing in that promo flick.

We are still able to raise our own cows out here, so we are that local farmer - we have even sold a few to friends over the years. I expect that in about 5-7 years it will be too much work for us, and then we'll buy from people we know out here.

But for now, I know for a fact what mine eat, how they live (undisturbed on hundreds of acres, my girls with their own bull) and their last moment on earth is right here where they live. Born here, die here. It isn't perfect - we lost one of my moms to a difficult birth and a predator, and of course, they are here to be food. But if one chooses to eat meat as we do, then far better than the way other animals are handled now days. I almost never eat any other meat than our beef because I don't approve of how they live out their days and met their end. Not for everyone, because it is a whole lifestyle deal in our case with raising them. But I am content out here.

[tawadi]

13. Cargill again?

That company should be shut down.