The Hidden Dangers of Ground Beef
Historical Account★★★★(Health)Prepackaged ground beef and hamburger patties are an amalgam of various grades of meat from multiple slaughterhouses, contain heavily treated fatty scraps an trimmings, and sometimes are contaminated with cow feces. Most meat processors do not test each batch of burger for E. Coli bacteria. The New York Times.
Noted, The Week, 10/16/09.
The point
A factual account from The New York Times about the unsanitary composition and contamination risks of prepackaged ground beef.
