Alas, man cannot survive on doughnuts alone. I am increasingly considering becoming a vegetarian.
]]>This was the October 8 testing, and the results weren’t known for a month? Checking for E. coli should be pretty routine, and it shouldn’t take a month.
Another question is what happens to the tainted product? Does it get cooked and put into something else [like animal feed] or thrown in a land fill and eaten by strays?
Grazing eliminates the problem and uses less energy. It is more expensive, but so are the antibiotics and hospital care needed to deal with the effects. You should be able to eat a medium rare hamburger without ending up on dialysis.
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