Rev. Erudite Redneck, B.S., B.S., M.A., M.Div.

I have to admit, that was the first thing I thought when I saw that post! Bad ol' meat-eater! (I should talk, I fell off the vegetarian wagon a few weeks ago. It's too dang hard in such a cow-eating state to remain a vegetarian when you're as lazy as I am!)

Hope you feel better soon!
 

So what I'd like to know is: how exactly did that nasty-looking critter get into your gut in the first place? Don't you know better than to eat things that look like that, no matter what your brother might say? ;-)
 

Unless you got custom ground meat, it is quite probable that that critter did hide in one of the those 10,000 cows that contributed corpus to those patties.

That is one of the hidden crimes now rampant in America poisoning food for profit.
 

Well, but the ladies didn't get sick. So it must not've been the victuals.

That critter in the pic is somebody's idea of what a chupucabra looks like, BTW.
 

Chupacabra, I mean.
 

drlobojo,

See, that's why, as tastey as cow is...most of the meat we eat is wild game.

1) you know that YOU took the care and skill to kill it cleanly and humanely. (and it lived a comparativly happy life...I think the happiest life for an animal would probably be on a nice, comfortable, well-protected family farm...but factory-raised meat...those animals have joyless existance. At least wild animals are free even if life isn't perfect in the wild)

2) You know that YOU treated the animal respectfully

3) You know that YOU handled the meat safely...

...and well, wild game is teh yummy too!
 

Bull, or Steer probably, the bacteria can be isolated in any small area of the ground meat. I mean the more cows, mingled before during and sfter the slaughter the more probability for contamination.

See this:
How safe is our meat supply?

Our food supply is a lot safer than it was 100 years ago, but food-borne disease remains an important public health problem. We estimate that there are 76 million cases a year -- about one in three or one in four Americans have an important food-borne disease every year. Much of it goes undiagnosed, because people stay home for two or three days, or miss a couple of days of work or school, but they don't see a doctor. (re: but a few thousand die from it.)

If we take the meat from one animal and grind it up and make ground beef, we're including only the bacteria from one animal. But if we take the meat from a thousand different animals and grind that together, we're pooling the bacteria from a thousand different animals as well.


Do you have an idea how many animals may be pooled in one burger?

I suspect there are hundreds or even thousands of animals that have contributed to a single hamburger.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/meat/interviews/tauxe.html

And there is this:
"FRONTLINE examines a lawsuit filed by a Texas meat-grinding company, Supreme Beef, against the U.S. Department of Agriculture. When the USDA effectively shut down the company after it failed bacterial contamination tests three times -- once after nearly 50 percent of its meat was found to be contaminated with salmonella -- the company sued. Supported in its lawsuit by the National Meat Association, Supreme Beef charged that the government didn't have the right to shut down its operations simply because it failed to meet the USDA salmonella standards. Last month, a federal appeals court ruled in favor of the company."

Can you say, Thank you Mr. President?
 

Half-pound hamburger patties are so thick, it would take a LOOOONG time to cook them all the way through properly. So maybe there IS a connection.

And just because the ladies didn't get sick doesn't mean it's NOT food poisoning. Remember, women are tough.

Hope you recover quickly!
 

Miss C said what I was gonna say about the thickness of the patty. Better to make thinner patties and make a double-decker burger than run the risk of not cooking it well enough.

I also happen to agree with her about women, too! ;)

I hope you're feeling better soon!
 

Sick and surrounded by doctors? Sad. Perhaps it was the dead fish pizza or Meskin the day before? Get well.
 

Unfortunately you'll probably live even if death does seem preferable at this point in time.
 

Y'all have made me suspicious of the leftovers. They are outtahere.
 

I failed to welcome Doc! Welcome Doc. We need another Doc around here. Come back anytime. :-)