Where's the beef?
It's being recalled.
It was a simpler time when 1984 presidential candidate Walter Mondale used the "Where's the beef?" line from the Wendy's commercial.
Beef was safe then. Right?
Beef didn't used to be contaminated with E. coli, did it?
When I eat cooked ground beef that has the slightest trace of pink left, I feel like I'm living dangerously.
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- A company voluntarily recalled nearly 96,000 pounds of ground beef products after two people were sickened, possibly by the E. coli bacteria, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said Saturday.
The beef products by American Foods Group include coarse and fine ground beef chuck, sirloin and chop beef. They were distributed to retailers and distributors in Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Tennessee, Wisconsin and Virginia.
The problem surfaced after an investigation by the Illinois Department of Health, which was looking into two reports of illnesses.
What's happened?
Why all the E. coli now?
It's not just beef. It's spinach and lettuce and alfalfa sprouts and salami and raspberries and more.
In 2006 during the E.coli outbreak traced to spinach, Richard H. Linton, director of the Center for Food Safety Engineering at Purdue University, said, "In the last 20 years, the incidence of produce-related food-borne illness has increased two and a half to three times."
Why?
What's with the food supply?
These recalls are really unappetizing.
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