It’s crap like this that makes me even happier to stand in the blistering sun at a farmer’s market and spend $9/lb for ground beef from Stillman’s, a rockstar operation in Hardwick, Mass. Yes, we dropped about $23 for a localvore July 4 feast of mini-burgers, but the wallet wincing is abated when you hear about dozens of people getting sick — AGAIN — because they bought the bright pink stuff from a Grocery Store.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nebraska Beef Ltd expanded its voluntary recall of material used in making ground beef to 5.3 million lbs, 10 times the initial recall, because it may contain disease-causing bacteria, the U.S. government said on Friday.
E.coli, glorious E.coli!
OTHER STUFF: Thanks very much to Adam for lending us his beer wisdom. You too can reap the benefits of it by observing our expanded beer page.
And as of July 1, Darry and I have embarked on a new experiment. We’re keeping a food log. Every night, listing all the stuff we ate that day…and all that we spent on it. The idea is we’re trying to get a real set of numbers: the actual cost of sourcing food as locally possible, year round. We’re pretty sure this data will one day be summoned for Congressional hearings, or a court case, whenever Monsanto figures out a way to sue local, organic food proponents. But until then, we’ll make it available here, on this blog, when we calculate something meaningful.
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