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CDC investigating multi-state ground beef E. coli outbreak

9/29/2016 - A multi-state recall of ground beef, veal and bison has been issued after seven people fell ill from eating E. coli-contaminated meat products that came from Massachusetts-based Adams Farm Slaughterhouse. Of the seven people who were reportedly sickened from eating the contaminated meat, five were...

Vegetarian Buddhists, Hindus outraged over fact that vaccines contain beef derivatives

8/3/2016 - Malaysian Hindus are calling on the government to provide alternatives to vaccines containing beef gelatin. Their demands were made on behalf of Hindus and Buddhists, who are forbidden by their religions to consume beef, as well as vegetarians who choose not to consume meat at all. The Malaysian...

Beef thefts on the rise nationwide as record-high prices disrupt Americans' food supply

11/17/2015 - As beef prices climb to record highs, more and more people are resorting to shoplifting to get their hands on it. A recent CBS News article reported on the trend, pointing out the fact that meat is the most popular food item for thieves. The problem is becoming worse as the cost of beef increases,...

Consumer Reports finds hamburger from grass-fed and organic cattle poses fewer health risks

8/27/2015 - Consumer Reports tested 300 samples (458 pounds) of hamburger from 103 stores from 26 cities for bacterial contamination, comparing "sustainable" meat to conventional meat. (Sustainable, in this study, referred to beef from cattle that was not given antibiotics). What they found was both enlightening...

Scientists inject nematode genes into cattle DNA to alter beef composition

7/22/2015 - Scientists are celebrating the "successful" genetic engineering of cows -- spliced with genes from nematode worms -- that make beef with a higher content of omega-3 fatty acids, in a study conducted by researchers from Northwest A&F University and the National Beef Cattle Improvement Centre (both in...

Ground beef prices hit another record high as economy circles the drain

4/8/2015 - The price of ground beef just set another record high in recent days, as a combination of factors including the 2012 drought, which caused ranchers to dramatically thin herds, contribute to its doubling in price since 2010. As reported by CNS News, the average ground beef price rose to its new record...

More than a ton of factory farmed beef recently recalled

1/30/2015 - Over 1,000 pounds of ground beef have recently been recalled by Minnesota-based Rancher's Legacy Meat Co., after routine product inspection conducted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) at the company's facility raised concerns over possible E. coli contamination.(1) In...

Thieves suspected in disappearance of 150 cattle as beef prices skyrocket

12/28/2014 - A recent headline in The Spokesman-Review seemed to have been pulled right out of the Old West: "Rustling suspected as Idaho cattle herds vanish." The article describes how three ranchers have had 150 cattle "go missing" over the last few weeks. Those cattle are estimated to be worth $350,000, about...

Price of ground beef continues to break new records

12/3/2014 - Consumption of meat certainly is not for everyone, but hamburger meat is consumed by tens of millions of Americans every day, and when the cost of this staple item rises, it affects the pocketbooks of millions of families, many of which are already having trouble making ends meet. In the Obama economy...

Ground beef sets new record as price rockets past $4.00 per pound for first time in history

9/20/2014 - During inflationary periods in the 1970s, Betty Crocker introduced "Hamburger Helper" as a way to stretch a struggling family's budget. While the meals themselves were anything but the epitome of good healthy eating, the idea was that at least they were an affordable way for families to put food on...

Ground beef prices hit all-time high in US

9/1/2014 - Disingenuous claims by the Obama Administration of widespread economic recovery are blighted by new data recently put forth by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). According to the latest figures, the average price of ground beef in the U.S. has now reached $3.884 per pound, the highest amount ever...

Beef and bacon prices hit all-time high in U.S. as meat prices continue to soar

7/25/2014 - Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) have sprung up in recent years, confining cattle in as little space as possible, with no room for the animals to roam, with no grass for them to feed on. Genetically modified feed is trough-fed to the animals as they fight for space and trounce in their...

Study finds beef the most environmentally harmful animal product in American diet

7/24/2014 - Yet another reason to remove meat from diets has surfaced, this time from a study that identified the most environmentally harmful animal product in the American diet as beef. (1) The study, which was conducted as part of a collaborative effort from several respectable institutions, aimed to show that...

UCLA hospitals switch to grass-fed, antibiotic-free beef and chicken

5/3/2014 - Employees in the healthcare industry are now reaping the benefits of healthy, organic food while on the clock, according to UCLA Newsroom. The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, have added much healthier choices to their cafeteria menus. Employees can now get...

ABC News sued for broadcasting news about pink slime beef byproducts

2/7/2014 - Back in 2012, when ABC News broke the story of an industrial beef byproduct being secretly added to children's lunches, the nation was outraged. And a major purveyor of that byproduct, South Dakota-based Beef Products Inc. (BPI), suffered massive losses as a result, which prompted the company to file...

Burrito backlash: Chipotle announces it might use sick cows as beef source, then reverses itself after internet backlash

8/14/2013 - Earlier today, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., reportedly told Bloomberg.com that it was considering expanding its supply chain to include sick animals treated with antibiotics. As Bloomberg shockingly reported: If Chipotle allows sick animals treated with antibiotics to remain in its supply chain,...

Skynet factories to churn out test tube beef as 'Bloomburgernator' robots force humans to eat artificial protein patties

8/6/2013 - The era of robotic, factory-produced test tube hamburger meat is nearly here. Yesterday, the first stem-cell-grown hamburger "meat patty" was grilled up and consumed by taste testers who declared it edible. The burger cost $332,000 to "grow" in test tubes, a project spearheaded by vascular biologist...

Abnormally large 'super cows' being manufactured by Frankenscientists for beef production

3/20/2013 - Did you know that some varieties of beef on the market today come from cattle that has been deliberately modified to grow abnormally large muscles for beef production? A recent segment aired by the National Geographic Channel offers a glimpse into the eerie production of so-called "super cows," which...

CLA in grass-fed beef is a powerful anti-carcinogen that also promotes fat loss

3/17/2013 - CLA, or conjugated linoleic acid, wasn't discovered until 1979 when researchers applied a beef extract to the skin of mice that were also exposed to a potent toxin. After a 16-week period, the group of mice with the beef extract had 20 percent fewer tumors than those without. Nine years later, in 1987,...

Recalibration: Why Dr. Oz is such a positive force for empowering health-conscious people

12/1/2012 - I have updated the story that originally appeared here with this account after having met Dr. Oz face to face and appeared on his show as a guest for a heavy metals research segment. This experience drastically altered my opinion of Dr. Oz, and in my view he has become more and more of an "activist"...

Pink slime beef producer sues ABC News for $1.2 billion over report exposing sickening beef industry practices

9/17/2012 5:07:59 PM - A major producer of the infamous "pink slime" meat product that captured headlines back in the spring is suing ABC News, news anchor Diane Sawyer, and several other individuals for what it claims was "a month-long vicious, concerted disinformation campaign" about "lean finely textured beef." Beef Products...

Corrupt USDA conspired to funnel hundreds of millions in taxpayer money to beef industry lobbyists

9/3/2012 - It may be hard to associate "corruption" with a U.S. government agency (insert dripping sarcasm here), but it's true: Sometimes those stewards of our tax dollars don't spend them very wisely. At least, that's what cattleman and rancher advocate Michael Callicrate is alleging in a federal suit he...

Skyrocketing ground beef prices hit record highs

8/21/2012 - As drought conditions persist well into late summer across the majority of U.S. states, agricultural production continues to be well below normal, meaning consumers will literally be paying the price for so much crop destruction. One product where that has already begun to happen is beef; in fact,...

Unraveling food industry lies - That expensive Kobe beef isn't genuine

8/13/2012 - It has become all the rage at fancy, high-end restaurants around the world, and many patrons are willing to fork over $100 or more for a single serving of what many celebrity chefs and culinary aficionados consider to be among the highest quality forms of beef in the world. But despite its claimed presence...

Here's why kale is called the 'beef' of a plant-based diet

5/27/2012 - While there's no official definition of the term superfood, the generally implied idea is a fruit or vegetable that is particularly nutritious and beneficial to your overall health and wellness, with high phytonutrient content. By that definition, kale should have a spot in the top ten. If you want...

Four great reasons to eat organic, grass-fed beef

5/8/2012 - Vegetarians and vegans can put up quite the convincing argument when it comes to what they are passionate about - not eating meat. Several have even appeared on this site. With all due respect to them, in the interest of fairness there is another side to the story. Humans are omnivores designed to use...

Mad cow disease detected in U.S. dairy cow; South Korea retailers halt US beef sales

4/25/2012 - It's baaack! Mad cow disease, our favorite prion from planet Bovinopolis, has once again reared its ugly folded protein head in a California dairy cow. It was detected there just a few days ago, but have no fear, courageous American beef eaters: U.S. "authorities" have declared it to be a "random mutation,"...

'Pink slime' is now found in 70 percent of the ground beef at our grocers

4/2/2012 - Would you knowingly eat ground beef which contained scrap meat items such as muscle connective tissue which had been sprayed with ammonium hydroxide? Would you want your children to eat such ground beef in their school lunches? According to recent revelations, if you or your children eat ground beef...

Pink slime factories shuttered after massive public backlash

3/29/2012 - For several decades now, the conventional beef industry has secretly been lacing ground beef products with an industrial, ammonia-laced byproduct known as "pink slime," a disturbing fact that recently came to the forefront of national attention after Food Network chef Jamie Oliver first drew attention...

Bye Bye "Pink Slime" (satirical opinion)

3/28/2012 3:13:01 PM - The company, Beef Products, Inc., that created "pink slime", if you'll pardon the expression, beef, stopped producing it because of enormous protests by the public. For those of you not aware of "pink slime", it is a lower cost ingredient made from fatty bits of meat scraped up from the slaughterhouse...

Pink Slime in Hawaii (satire opinion)

3/18/2012 1:02:07 PM - Most of us know, following a wave of Internet anger about the use of the "pink slime" filler in school lunch hamburgers, that the US Department of A-holes insists that the product is safe. But first, let's see what it is. It is very low-cost ground beef filler made up of the leftover, fatty bits...

USDA plans to keep feeding 'pink slime' to your kids

3/15/2012 - After garnering nationwide attention for being secretly added to processed hamburgers and beef products, including those served in school lunchrooms, "lean finely textured beef," aka "pink slime," is reportedly on its way out from the menu offerings of McDonald's, Taco Bell, and Burger King. But according...

'Pink Slime' (beef parts paste with ammonia) good for kids, says Beef Products, Inc

3/12/2012 4:35:07 PM - In perhaps the most amazing display of unmitigated gall since the Journal of Pediatrics declared mercury 'good for kids,' (1) Beef Products Inc. (BPI) told The Daily that its "lean finely textured beef," treated with ammonia, is good for America's schoolchildren. Last week The Daily broke...

Food inflation: Beef prices continue to skyrocket

2/9/2012 - A recent CBS article wrote of wholesale beef prices rising to the point where retail beef sales are dropping. Unhappy customers are asking how much is the beef now instead of where's the beef. The Department of Agriculture (USDA) claims the cattle herd in the USA is at its lowest since 1952, at only...

Grass-fed beef is more nutrient dense than poultry

12/20/2011 - For over 60 years red meat has been vilified for its heart clogging saturated fat & cholesterol content. Poultry products have been marketed as the healthiest animal protein due to their low-fat content. New understandings of health and inflammation now reveal that grass-fed beef is significantly more...

Generalizations in red meat studies have led to potentially unhealthy advice (Opinion)

9/15/2011 - A number of recent studies about red meat consumption have led to widely publicized advice that eating red meat is unhealthy. However, such studies have often made flawed generalizations. As a result, many people have likely been mislead into believing that red meat is bad in and of itself and may be...

Hundreds of beef cattle contaminated by Fukushima radiation have been shipped all over Japan, inspection finds

7/23/2011 - The Fukushima Prefecture, a roughly 5,300 square mile region in Japan where the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility is located, recently conducted an area-wide inspection of local farms after discovering levels of radioactive cesium three-to-six times higher than maximum safety thresholds in...

With superbugs contaminating fresh meat, the truth comes out about the FDA Food Safety Bill

4/17/2011 - Remember all the hubbub about the S.510 "Food Safety Bill" and how it would make your food safe to eat? Well, it turns out those expanded FDA powers do absolutely nothing to even address the safety of fresh meat products, and yet new research reveals that nearly half of all fresh meat and poultry products...

Worst Texas drought in 44 years causing wheat, beef shortages

3/27/2011 - Lower yields and continually-rising demand has sparked a sharp rise in prices for wheat and beef in the US. And extended drought conditions across Texas, which is the nation's largest cattle producer and second-largest winter-wheat grower, has contributed to the overall US cattle herd now being the...

Taco Bell beef faked? No more than the rest of the FDA-approved toxic food supply

1/29/2011 - The word spread like wildfire across the internet: An Alabama law firm had filed a class action lawsuit against Taco Bell in California, saying its meat fails to meet the definition of beef set forth by the U.S. government (and even that's a pretty low hurdle, if you ask me). The lawsuit claims Taco...

Antibiotic tainted beef illegally sold for human consumption

9/2/2010 - The conventional U.S. food supply is no stranger to chemicals, pesticides, growth hormones and antibiotics. But a Michigan dairy has violated what minimal restrictions do exist concerning these additives by illegally selling antibiotic-ridden dairy cows to be processed for human consumption over the...

Dead cow carcasses "resurrected" to produce cloned beef

8/16/2010 - We already know that cloned beef has entered the food supply both in the United States (https://www.naturalnews.com/023718_food_beef_cloned.html) and the UK (https://www.naturalnews.com/029411_cloned_beef_food.html). Now, thanks to revelations from JR Simplot, a U.S. company specializing in the cloning...

Dirty, contaminated beef fed to children through school lunch programs

6/1/2010 - The USDA's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently issued a shocking report (http://www.usda.gov/oig/webdocs/24601-08-KC.pdf) about the condition of the nation's industrial meat supply. It turns out that a lot of the U.S. meat supply is tainted with veterinary drugs, pesticides and heavy metals. According...

Commercial beef really is made out of chicken feces

4/29/2010 - A recent investigation into industrialized agriculture feeding practices has revealed some disturbing information of which many may not be aware. Commercial animal husbandry practices often involve feeding livestock mass amounts of animal waste, including chicken litter, which contains chicken feces,...

Hormones in U.S. Beef Linked to Cancer Risk

3/25/2010 - Beef produced in the United States contains dangerously high levels of natural and synthetic hormones, warns Dr. Samuel S. Epstein of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. According to Epstein, more than half of all beef cows slaughtered in the United States each year have been treated with either the...

Ammonia is Found in Your Burger (Opinion)

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Window cleaning chemical injected into fast food hamburger meat

1/5/2010 - If you're in the beef business, what do you do with all the extra cow parts and trimmings that have traditionally been sold off for use in pet food? You scrape them together into a pink mass, inject them with a chemical to kill the e.coli, and sell them to fast food restaurants to make into hamburgers. That's...

What's really in that burger? E.coli and chicken feces both allowed by USDA

11/6/2009 - There are 14 billion hamburgers consumed each year in the United States alone. The people who eat those burgers, though, have little knowledge of what's actually in them. Current USDA regulations, for example, openly allow beef contaminated with E. coli to be repackaged, cooked and sold as ready-to-eat...

Burger King (Japan) offers Windows 7 Whopper with 7 beef patties for $7.77 (satire)

10/23/2009 - What do you get when you combine a good operating system with a ridiculously bad idea of a burger? Burger King's news "Windows 7 Whopper," made with 7 beef patties and sold for ¥777 (Yen). The seven-decker processed beef burger clocks in at 1,000 calories, reports FoxNews. It's offered only...

No End Seen to Destruction of Farm Output Capacity and Food Shortages

8/31/2008 - Farmers are blasting the role of the food cartels in destroying farm output capacity, creating food shortages and producing monopolistic conditions. In a recent interview for Executive Intelligence Review, Frank Endres, board member of the National Farmers Organization, focused on newly announced acquisitions...

No End Seen to Cartel's Destruction of Food Capacity

8/29/2008 - Farmers are blasting the role of the food cartels in destroying farm output capacity, creating food shortages and producing monopolistic conditions. In a recent interview for Executive Intelligence Review, Frank Endres, board member of the National Farmers Organization, focused on newly announced acquisitions...

Cloned Beef Has Already Entered U.S. Food Supply, Even Before FDA Nod

7/29/2008 - The major cattle cloning companies in the United States have admitted that they have not bothered to try and keep meat from the offspring of clones out of the U.S. food supply, in spite of a request by the FDA several years ago. "This is a fairy tale that this technology is not being used and is...

The Energetic Contamination of Beef Products (Transcript)

5/24/2008 - Greetings everyone, this is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, here reporting for www.Naturalnews.com. I am currently in the rainforest of Southern Ecuador, high in the Andes Mountains. I am not joking. I am actually in a bamboo rainforest here. It is raining so I am under some shelter right now. Unfortunately,...

USDA Refuses to Recall "Comingled" Meat That Contains Beef from Westland Plant Downer Cows

2/22/2008 - Following the unprecedented recall of 143 million pounds of beef that was potentially contaminated with mad cow disease, the USDA has decided that it's okay for children and consumer to eat that beef as long as it is comingled with beef from other cows. This startling decision appeared in a USDA memo...

USDA Waited 18 Days to Recall Contaminated Beef that Sickened 28 People

2/21/2008 - According to an internal U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) e-mail obtained by the Chicago Tribune, the USDA waited 18 days after confirming that a Florida teenager had become sick from E. coli-contaminated meat before recommending a recall of the contaminated beef. Under U.S. law, the USDA is...

USDA Recalls 143 Million Pounds of Beef Products Already Consumed by Schoolchildren; Slaughterhouse Atrocities Shock World

2/18/2008 - In case you were still curious to learn what really goes on behind the closed doors of beef slaughterhouses, the release of a secret video by the Humane Society (www.HSUS.org) silenced the skeptics and naysayers by revealing the horrifying atrocities committed against diseased cows by slaughterhouse...

E. Coli Outbreak and Ethanol By-Product - Is There a Link?

2/5/2008 - On September 23rd, 2007 a 20 year old Cold Spring, MN woman named Stephanie Smith ate E. coli contaminated ground beef. Five days later, with severe intestinal cramping she was admitted to a local hospital. Today she is in a drug-induced coma at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. While ethanol production...

Eating Beef More Destructive to Environment than Driving a Car

12/18/2007 - The environmental footprint of producing just over two pounds of beef is greater than that of driving a car for three hours, according to a Japanese study reported on "New Scientist." A research team led by Akifumi Ogino of the National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science in Tsukuba, Japan...

What's on your mind for dinner, cow brains?

1/14/2007 - First, a warning: This article may be considered extremely gross or nauseating by some readers. It's about where red meat actually comes from and the mental distortions maintained by people who eat large quantities of animal products. So, a courtesy warning: If you're easily sickened by talk of meat...

Artificial hormones in U.S. beef linked to breast cancer, prostate cancer

7/5/2006 - There is new concern over evidence that growth and sex hormones in beef can cause genital abnormalities in boys, and early onset of puberty in girls. British Veterinary Products Committee (VPC) member and chemical expert John Verall was appointed to the government's VPC to represent consumer interests....

Mad cow madness: USDA lies and the coming collapse of the U.S. beef industry

9/14/2005 - Welcome to Mad Cow Madness! If you've ever wondered what's really going on with mad cow disease in the United States, here's the real story. Let's talk about this downer cow that was recently confirmed as having mad cow disease. It only took... let's see... seven months for the USDA to confirm that...

FDA delays new rules to protect public from mad cow disease; beef industry couldn't be happier

7/13/2004 - The FDA almost never takes action to protect the public. Instead, the agency's decisions consistently and almost universally protect the financial interests of influential corporations such as pharmaceutical companies or, in this case, beef industry companies. Mad cow disease is real, and it's here...

Some consumers think naturally-raised beef should cost the same as corporate farm beef

1/22/2004 6:32:44 PM - It seems like virtually every food manufacturer wants to jump on the "natural" bandwagon, but as sharp consumers already know, the word "natural" on the label of a food product or meat package doesn't really mean much: tricky food marketers can use the word "natural" even on products containing...

Mad cow disease on U.S. soil exposes the disgusting nature of beef industry

1/17/2004 7:57:49 PM - Mad cow wouldn't be a problem in the first place if the beef industry didn't grind up old, diseased cows and feed their parts to other cows. That mad cow is appearing is simply an inevitable result of utterly inhumane and filthy practices by corporate beef producers. Now, thanks to this single...

The USDA works tirelessly to protect beef industry profits at the expense of public health

1/5/2004 1:55:27 PM - Here's an excellent New York Times article on the truth behind the actions of the USDA on mad cow disease. What's obvious to every thinking person who has paid attention to this issue is that the USDA is acting as a beef marketing branch of the U.S. government, not as an agency tasked with protecting...

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