Nov 04
New York (CNN) — Two people have died and 28 people have fallen ill with matching strains of E. coli after an outbreak in ground beef, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Sixteen
of those people are in hospitals and three have developed kidney
failure as a result of the contamination, the CDC said late Monday.The U.S. Department of Agriculture
announced last week that Fairbank Farms in Ashville, New York, was
recalling more than half a million pounds of fresh ground beef products
that may be contaminated with a strain of E. coli, a potentially deadly
species of bacteria.
Industrial agriculture strikes again! Its hard to believe that we would have these sorts of outbreaks if our food production was done on a local scale – all the benefits (jobs, profits) as well as the costs (outbreaks) would be small-scale.