On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 16:34:25 -0500, Sqwertz wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 15:12:58 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
>> "Terry Pulliam Burd" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> I've ground my own meat for years when making hamburgers, spaghetti
>>> sauce, meatloaf, etc., because it just seemed sensible. I know my KA
>>> grinder attachment is clean and will produce clean ground meat. This
>>> article in the New York Times makes me wonder why ground beef at the
>>> market doesn't come with a warning label:
>>>
>>> http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?se...rld&id=7044287
>>>
>>> If this is true for ground beef, I wonder what other food stuffs are
>>> similarly contaminated.
>>
>> Looks like the link has been changed.
>>
>> Commercial ground beef is nasty stuff though. It proves the human body can
>> endure a lot of contamination.
>
> There's nothing wrong with store ground beef if you have a
> trustworthy source.
>
> I would never get ground beef at Randall's or Fiesta Mart, but I
> have never had any problems or misgivings about buying it from HEB.
> I regularly buy both commercial ground beef and I grind my own when
> it's practical. I am not a nutcase that applies unreasonable bias
> without some actual experience.
>
> -sw

if store-bought ground meat was killing people, there'd be a lot more dead
people laying around. i still say that killing your customers is not a
good business plan.

your pal,
blake