BURGERS MENACE

Oct.09 - US Food safety expert Dr. Jeffrey Bender says mildly, "ground beef is not a completely safe product." The understatement is not lost on The New York Times, whose hugely popular, endlessly retweeted and emailed article on ground beef safety Sunday points out the "restrained" enforcement of safety procedures by the USDA.

The article tells the story of children’s dance instructor Stephanie Smith, who was paralyzed after eating tainted beef at a Sunday dinner with her family in September 2007. Smith, 22, was taken to the hospital five days after the family dinner, "in excruciating pain" that a doctor described as worse than childbirth. (Smith wouldn’t know; she hadn’t yet started a family of her own.)

Smith was having so many seizures that doctors had to put her in a coma and fly her to the Mayo Clinic, where her mother worried she wouldn’t live out the year.

Scientists ended up tying 11 cases in Minnesota to hamburgers manufactured by Cargill and marketed as American Chef’s Selection Angus Beef Patties. Four of the 11 sickened developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a condition which can affect kidney function. In the worst cases, the colon wall is penetrated, impacting blood vessels and causing clots that can lead to seizures.

This is what happened to Stephanie, and her coma lasted nine weeks. When she woke up, she couldn’t walk. Her doctors say she’ll probably never walk again.

From now on, eating a simple beef burger is no more an innocent gesture! As a gun, a burger can injury you!
Even in the most decadent movies, a mad scenarist never could imagine this kind of nightmare!

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