143 million pounds of meat recalled

This is a crosspost from hello! Food

This is a crosspost from hello! Yoshi

If you read my hello! food website, you might recall that I wrote a post about the USDA inspection process being shoddy. Well, now we start the process of making up for it. The USDA orders recall of 143 million pounds of beef. From the article, "But Dick Raymond, the undersecretary of agriculture for food safety, said there was a "remote probability" that the meat from the Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Company in Chino, California, could cause illness in humans."

You know, I agree with that. There may or may not be any issues with humans eating this meat. But for me, I tend to see it as a little bit of karma. What goes around comes around. I understand that the slaughterhouse has fired a couple employees, and while is is a great start, I think they need more to make up for the abuse.

I'm not exactly against the slaughterhouse in question closing down completely, but honestly, it's not realistic. But something had to be done. And more has to be done. Perhaps frequent and perhaps even publicized inspections may be one method. For a while at least.

This entire story just about makes me want to become a vegetarian, but I don't think that's going to help the cows. Really I don't.

How do you feel about all this?