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In case of hurricane, grab the cookbook.Chicken Marbella, Brie wrapped in Phyllo and Chocolate Hazelnut cake. All have become my friends all time favorites.Rest in Peace Sheila. You paved the way for all the others.

@pooch: I agree. I'm not a vegetarian but I consider myself a wildlife activist---priority of treating animals with respect is another way of respecting what you put in your body! Its the tmple of your soul afterall :) and for the sake of the lil'thing!

I like all my meats rare if I can attest to the source being reliable too

Moral of the story, go to a butcher (or the butcher counter at a supermarket) and get fresh ground beef, ground in store if not in front of your eyes. At the supermarket by my parents house, this option is only about $0.50 more per pound than the shrink wrapped stuff.

years ago, after a few hours of driving by an enormous feedlot in nebraska, my husband stopped eating commercial beef. Shortly thereafter, having read a New Yorker piece on mad cow disease, I stopped too. Since then, we'ver rarely had any beef -- and only if we are assured by the local natural foods store that it comes from a no antibiotics, grass fed, local butchering etc. situation.
As long as most americans are happy to go to mcdonalds and the like and to eat hamburgers over and over again, there won't be any changes, even though there are probably lots of people who are injured.
I know that ecoli has also been found in organic grown spinach (which I'm still buying), and to a certain extent there will always be some danger in the food supply, it probably can't be completely eliminated. But ground beef has been such a frequent problem that I am surprised that people can't seem to break the habit.

Related:
http://www.seriouseats.com/talk/2009/10/do-you-know-where-your-hamburg-is-coming-from.html

If this doesn't scare us all into vegetarianism, I don't know what will.

So then is buying ground beef from the grocery store OK? I don't generally buy the frozen patties because I don't have room in the freezer for them and I don't like the taste either. I also have a friend who raises cattle and has said I could buy a whole cow, 1/2 of one or 1/4 of one but again, don't have the freezer space to store all that meat. So what's better? Just buying meat and grinding it ourselves? Or having a butcher do it? Giving up on hamburgers is just not an option here! :)

Very scary shit.

I've bought frozen patties for convenience sake, to take camping before. Never again.

It's comfort food

I love bacon because I can have it the first thing in the morning, at lunch on a BLT and at dinner in a salad or in one of my wife's delicious creations.

I love bacon because the taste is out of this world!

I love bacon because it is the most tasty food on the planet. I can put it in almost anything and enjoy :) The last time I found it for an unbeatable price I bought 50lbs worth LOL.