That is why I eat only Greenfed beef, raised humanely and pasture fed on legumes,forbes,& unpesticided grasses, from Beyond Organic, straight from the ranches in southern Missouri delivered to my door. More info go to http://liveorganicusa.com

Glad I've been off beef for over 16 years!!!

Meat is still MEAT!! It's beyond unethical, not necessary, and even organic.. depletes resources of earth needed for future generations! Educate yourself.. for everyone's sake. LJ.

@ john hopkins The cows are not ours to eat, no matter if they were fed a chicken poop or lovely fresh grass, they don't want to die.

Ground beef can also contain cow placenta.....and also cow crap.....this is the main source of e. coli in ground beef....Not to mention all of the bovine hormones and anti biotics....

Big deal, I'll still eat meat....been doing it for over 60 years with no ill effects, why change now?

Grow your own fruits and veggies and lay off the meat. You'd be amazed how much better you feel. You actually know what goes into your food and no pesticides on your fruit. Learn to can, use a dehydrator; these are things our great-grandparents did to
survive.

It is not all the goverments fault, that this is happening to a industry that once took pride in what they did for a living. It is big business that made this industry lower it's standards to please a FDA rulings for substandards of bad products. Look
to the small business owners to get higher quality products that have none of these mistrusting products in them. So remember that, not all meats are processed in the manner that is bad for us.

Hey FurryGang, the cows ARE ours, and we're at the top of the food chain. I want clean meat to eat, by the way, but I don't think current USDA practices are too bad. E Coli tainted, and subsequently cooked cow meat, is fine for my family's palate (yum!).
Some of the other practices mentioned are questionable, but methinks we're not getting the whole story in this article!

Glad I eat mostly wild deer or elk.

This is not true as I work in the animal business. Beef that is contaminated with mad cow disease is checked and regulated and sometimes thousands of head of cattle cannot be sold to market or are recalled because only 1 of thousands of cows have this.
This person went from e coli to mad cow disease.. just crazy. You cannot and will not eat a burger that is infected with mad cow it just doesn't happen and this person is saying it will happen to everyone in the world! How un ethical and such a crazy statement.
What is even worse is they do not have a source to help them out with this. They cite a site at the bottom that they probably read and just decided to make it their own biased article. Also the article thy could have read may have been biased themselves. All
I am saying is people honestly ask yourselves would people still be in the job if they were marketing a more severe case of Alzheimer's I mean come on...

This makes me want to eat a cheeseburger

Humans are omnivores, not vegans or vegetarians. And in order to get all of your much needed vitamins including some of the B vitamins, you can only get them from meat protein. And it is not inhuman to eat meat - it is all in the way it is prepared and
how the animals are slaughtered. It a circle of life. We all depend on each other to live well.

Hey @ Jon - you want the WHOLE story? Try renting the movie FOOD INC. - or better yet renting it for free from your local library. And @ Anon 12/10 - these practices DO extist. Mad cow disease (Jacob Klinefelter's Syndrome in humans) IS real. It is a huge
threat to our health! Look into learing about these prions - you can't burn them, bury them, or clean them to death - they exist and destroy...brain tissue. Something has to change. SOON.

Someone from the meat industry is telling you that meat is safe. That explains why EINSTEIN, himself, advocates a VEGETARIAN DIET! He stated: "Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature and its beauty. "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel Prize 1921, and if you think he's the only GREAT
SCIENTIST to believe that going vegetarian is best for us, take a look at some of these statements by other GREAT SCIENTISTS: ""The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men." Leonardo da Vinci,
artist and scientist "For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love." Pythagoras, mathematician He created the Pythagorean theorem. "Non-violence leads to the highest
ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." Thomas Edison, inventor The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and
all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of “real food for real people,” you’d better live real close to a real good hospital. —Neal D. Barnard, MD, President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine Sir Isacc Newton, “the father of physics,”
and Leonardo Da Vinci, a part-time physicist who made major discoveries in hydraulics, optics and mechanics were both vegetarians. In fact, Da Vinci was so fervent about vegetarianism that he would buy caged chickens and set them free. In addition, Srinivasa
Ramanujan (1887-1920), considered the greatest mathematician of the last 1000 years, was also vegetarian. Another ardent vegetarian, the great inventor, physicist and engineer Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) who helped devise the AC (alternating current) electrical
system used to power modern civilization, lived on sumptuous, custom-ordered meals at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Regarding the physical and moral benefits of vegetarianism, Tesla wrote: On general principles the raising of cattle as a means of providing
food is objectionable. It is certainly preferable to raise vegetables, and I think, therefore, that vegetarianism is a commendable departure from the established barbarian habit. That we can subsist on plant food and perform our work even to advantage is not
a theory but a well-demonstrated fact. Many races living almost exclusively on vegetables are of superior physique and strength. There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical
and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate. In view of these facts every effort should be made to stop the wanton, cruel
slaughter of animals, which must be destructive to our morals. Those are just a FEW of the great scientists that KNOW better than us, yet so many believe the MEAT INDUSTRY and physicians that want your money. When do we listen to those that KNOW? As for me,
I've lived without meat for many years, and I have plenty of vitamin B. So much for the falsehoods that meat eaters claim...that one can only get vitamin B from animals. It's NOT fact. It's a fallacy created by those that would keep you eating their poison.