“E. coli conservatism” for a reason.
Good write-up from the NY Times, with direct nods at industry pressure and practices that exist because it is cheaper to have a low percent but non-zero chance of killing you than to have a safe product.
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Meat companies and grocers have been barred from selling ground beef tainted by the virulent strain of E. coli known as O157:H7 since 1994, after an outbreak at Jack in the Box restaurants left four children dead.
This is an outrageous assault on the free market and our Amurkan way of life.
E. coli isn’t in the Constitution!11one!1!
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And this is why we’re having lentil/brown rice casserole tonight.
Our Founding Fathers fought for the right to choose contaminated meat. Let the free market decide whether Americans want to taste ground cow anus.
Children should be eating ground Ron Paul Book on a bun, anyways.
That burning sensation is freedom coursing through your intestines.
Many big slaughterhouses will sell only to grinders who agree not to test their shipments for E. coli
the free market at work!!
how can something so delicious have such a digusting genesis?
But you see, the market will be stimulated by the invisible hand to spew forth a supply chain wherein everything is tasted and safe, and the consumer will direct-order from that supply chain cutting into the profits of the existing behemoths. Soon, they will all adopt such good practices, in competition with one another. (Any talk of collusion is conspiracy-mongering.)
Yes, it may take hundreds of agonizing E. coli deaths a year—trivial sacrifices for the favour of the hand—but the market Will Correct Itself, no government intervention needed.