Wheres the Beef (Coming From)?
The Times titled this article with the humdrum “E. Coli Path Shows Flaws in Beef Inspection,” but the mundane head belies some great journalism — a transfixingly grotesque look at America’s beef production complex and its many problems and dangers. I’d tell you to read it over lunch, but you may want to pick another time. The story is ostensibly about Stephanie Smith, a semi-vegetarian children’s dance instructor who bit into a contaminated burger at her aunt’s house and ended up in a coma that left her paralyzed. It’s a wrenching story. But the article is never quite able to show that E. coli outbreaks are on the rise. Jeffrey Bender, a food safety expert at the University of Minnesota notes that outbreaks had been decreasing, but “it looks like we are going a bit in the opposite direction.” Presumably, if there were hard numbers demonstrating an increase in cases, the article would have included them. What the article does show to be happening is the Franken-burger. Looking at a sin
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