In what is now becoming a ridiculous -- and very disturbing -- trend in the food supply chain, yet another recall is in effect. This time the culprit is potentially contaminated (E. coli) ground beef.
Cargill Meat Solutions Corp. (Are they kidding with that name? Meat solutions?) has recalled some 8,500 pounds of the stuff.
With all the recalling going on, what's your "meat solution?"
Well, your best bet -- if you can afford it -- is to buy pastured grass-fed/grass-finished beef. It's not cheap...certainly by comparison to the stuff you can buy in bulk from BJ's.
An alternative solution, and one that I often take advantage of, is the local butcher. Mine provides grass-fed/grain-finished ground beef raised locally at about $3.79 a pound. He knows where his beef comes from and he stands by its quality. It's no contamination-free guarantee of course, but the odds are in my favor -- much more so than the beef you buy at the big box stores.
At the butcher I'll usually buy about 6 pounds of ground beef split into 2 pound portions, and freeze it.
- Daily Life Wellness
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