By Diane Carman, Denver Post Columnist, Thursday, July 25, 2002
If 19 million pounds of meat distributed to half of this country had been contaminated with a deadly strain of E. coli bacteria by terrorists, we'd go nuts. But when it's done by a Fortune 100 corporation, we continue to buy it and feed it to our kids.
As children are weaned from dialysis, joining others recovering from eating ground beef contaminated with feces, the rest of us are ready to return to business as usual from the meat industry. Be sure to cook those burgers well, we remind each other. Well-done burgers won't give you renal failure despite the traces of manure...
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