Originally Posted by MrBaldBastard

Commercially purchased ground beef, should come with public health warnings... The problem is your hamburger could contain beef from 200 different beasts plus what ever other shit they want to throw into it, and its the shit they do throw into it, because any healthy animal, makes a lot more sold as steaks.

Grind your own, or find a Local butcher, that does theirs.

This doesn't stop E.coli but it limits its spread.

Cooking will kill most E.coli, its naturally in our guts for us to be healthy .. however there's a few strains of it that are really nasty and avoid those at all costs.

I go to Thailand once a year and the first two weeks I have to be super careful of what I eat or my ass explodes, after two weeks I can eat any street food with the locals, we as westerners have lost most of the good bacteria from our guts.

. .Let the little kids eat dirt, its good for them ;)