Food Politics

An interesting find:

“Meyer Pharmaceuticals LLC engages in discovery research, provides pharmaceutical research services under the service mark Meyer Pharmaceuticals®, and develops pharmaceutical compositions for human clinical therapy. It was established in 1996 and has a broad portfolio of intellectual property covering therapeutics for both inflammatory disease and cancer. It is privately held and funded by Robert E. Meyer. The corporate group owned by Mr. Meyer has a diversified range of interests, including pharmaceuticals, investment banking, commercial real estate, and the Meyer Natural Angus® livestock business.”

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/89398.php

Kind of reminds me of this chuckle-inducing Whole Foods photo:
http://flickr.com/photos/smailtronic/449976409/

In case anyone didn’t know, E coli is science jargon for cow poop in your food.

we don’t have a Whole Foods near where I live but one of our local up-market grocery stores just had a recall of ground beef…Dorothy Lane Market in Dayton, OH. Here is a snippet from the news article:

“The withdrawal is related to the same processing facility in Nebraska implicated by a national recall issued by the Kroger Company in recent weeks, DLM said.

“Unfortunately, our longtime supplier, Coleman Natural Meats, had used this processing plant on a temporary basis, and apparently some of our beef was affected,” DLM said.”

temporary? hope so

Interesting. I didn’t know Whole Foods shoppers even ate ground beef.

My mother bought some Coleman ground beef at Costco in June when the regular ground beef was sold out. I don’t know if they are also involved by the recall. There is nothing on Costco’s website.

With such a history of poor sanitation pratices and contaminated meats coming from this plant, why is it allowed to remain open and process anybody’s meat???

That’s too bad. I generally like Whole Foods’ meat section.

[...] case you missed it Earlier this week, Whole Foods ate some crow and issued a recall on ground beef.  Yesterday, the USDA expanded the recall by another 160,000 [...]

@darya: Well, the good news is that it’s probably fine now! My sister bought ground beef there the other day, reasoning that they’re probably being extra-careful.

Might be time for WFM to consider dropping beef sales. They could concentrate on reinforcing organic standards that still exist. This blog has been helpful in pointing links to problems in the food industry as a whole!!

Wow! Just to clear up a few things…This recall was voluntary. A butcher in the midwest bought chuck beef from Coleman, directly. He ground that meat into burgers and that’s where the e coli was found. Meyer Natural has never, ever used Nebraska Beef for processing. They use Greater Omaha Packing for processing which uses N=60 testing on their beef.