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Agribusiness and trading giant Cargill recalled 8,500 pounds of ground beef late Friday that may contain E coli.

The FDA has long banned interstate sales of raw milk, and many states restrict or prohibit the sale of raw milk entirely. After several crackdowns by federal and state agencies, raw milk drinkers are fighting back.

The most under-reported news item from the Christmas weekend was the recall of 248,000 pounds of factory beef due to E. Coli O157:H7 contamination. The USDA reports that the source of the poisoned beef is National Steak and Poultry, a meat processing company out of Owasso, Oklahoma. There's no...

Food safety expert Dr. Jeffrey Bender says mildly, "ground beef is not a completely safe product." The understatement is not lost on The New York Times, whose hugely popular, endlessly retweeted and emailed article on ground beef safety Sunday points out the "restrained" enforcement of safety...

It didn't rank up there with my wedding day or the birth of my first born, but I can honestly say that I remember the first time I saw Topps Meat on my grocery store shelves. "How convenient," I thought as I grabbed the red rectangular box full of frozen hamburger patties. I'd gotten used to...