jackass
02-23-2008, 07:07 PM
As a beef lover I have to say....YIKES!!!
Why Our Burgers Still Aren't Safe
The agency charged with safeguarding our food supply has a dirty little secret: It tests just 0.05 percent of the nation's ground beef for bacteria that could kill you. Sure you want to eat that burger?
It's a Friday night in Missoula, Montana, when my buddy Eric and I walk into the Oxford Café. We make our way through the usual crowd of gamblers, pool players, drinkers, and drunks, and take a seat against the far wall. The waitress looks weary, and we look like work to her. "What'll you have?" she asks. Eric orders a hamburger. I point at the laminated menu and order scrambled eggs and brains, nicknamed "He Needs 'Em."
"Impossible," the waitress says flatly. "Since mad cow disease, the USDA won't let us serve that."
"I don't know why you'd want to eat brains," Eric says. This from a guy who thinks nothing of gutting an elk.
I've eaten calf testicles and cow hearts and all sorts of things, but I'd never eaten brains before. I'd heard about the Oxford's fabled dish and figured this would be my chance to try something new, to taste something considered a delicacy in many parts of the world. It didn't seem particularly risky. In fact, no one in Missoula (or anywhere else in the United States) had ever been sickened from eating mad-cow-contaminated meat.
http://health.msn.com/nutrition/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100194418&page=1
Why Our Burgers Still Aren't Safe
The agency charged with safeguarding our food supply has a dirty little secret: It tests just 0.05 percent of the nation's ground beef for bacteria that could kill you. Sure you want to eat that burger?
It's a Friday night in Missoula, Montana, when my buddy Eric and I walk into the Oxford Café. We make our way through the usual crowd of gamblers, pool players, drinkers, and drunks, and take a seat against the far wall. The waitress looks weary, and we look like work to her. "What'll you have?" she asks. Eric orders a hamburger. I point at the laminated menu and order scrambled eggs and brains, nicknamed "He Needs 'Em."
"Impossible," the waitress says flatly. "Since mad cow disease, the USDA won't let us serve that."
"I don't know why you'd want to eat brains," Eric says. This from a guy who thinks nothing of gutting an elk.
I've eaten calf testicles and cow hearts and all sorts of things, but I'd never eaten brains before. I'd heard about the Oxford's fabled dish and figured this would be my chance to try something new, to taste something considered a delicacy in many parts of the world. It didn't seem particularly risky. In fact, no one in Missoula (or anywhere else in the United States) had ever been sickened from eating mad-cow-contaminated meat.
http://health.msn.com/nutrition/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100194418&page=1