Beef Recall-Sick Cows Slaughtered for Meat

Beef being fed to our children at schools could well have been infected with Ecoli. Some of the animals at a California slaughter house had to be lifted with fork trucks as they were too sick to stand or walk on their own. None being tested by the USDA. What do you think of this happening and who is responsible? Is the meat being stamped USDA?

The recall will affect beef products

dating to Feb. 1, 2006, that came from

Chino-based Westland/Hallmark Meat Co.,

Because these cows were not tested and given a clean bill of

health it is stated these animals were not fit for human consumption.

Federal regulations call for keeping downed cattle out of the food supply because they may pose a higher risk of contamination from Ecoli, salmonella or mad cow disease because they typically wallow in feces and their immune systems are often weak. So why was this overlooked, this is our food here people. Are poultry screened this way as well? and Pork?

It seems to me 2 years of beef is lot of meat to just pass by. Why would most of us have 2 yr old meats in our freezer?

This means we ate the contaminated food.

Consumers with questions about the recall should contact

company Customer Service Representative James Turner

at (800) 325-4164. Media with questions about the recall

should contact company Vice-President for Sales

and Marketing Brian Levy at (323) 588-5286.

The labels of the products subject to recall bear the

establishment number "EST. 1241" inside the USDA

mark of inspection or printed on the package.

All of the products bear a sell by date of "May/06/07,"

a freeze by date of "May/07/07" or a produced on

date of "April/20/07." Products subject to recall include:

• 10-pound casings of "MORAN'S All Natural, 73/27 fine ground beef."

• 10-pound casings of "MORAN'S All Natural, 90/10 fine ground sirloin."

• 2-pound chubs of "INTER-AMERICAN PRODUCTS 93/7 ground beef."

• 1-pound chubs of "INTER-AMERICAN PRODUCTS 80/20 ground beef."

• 1-pound chubs of "MORAN'S All Natural 73/27 ground beef."

• 5-pound chubs of "MORAN'S All Natural 73/27 ground beef."

• 3-pound chubs of "MORAN'S All Natural 73/27 ground beef."

• 1-pound chubs of "MORAN'S All Natural, 90/10 fine ground sirloin."

• 2-pound chubs of "MORAN'S All Natural 93/7 ground beef."

• 2-pound chubs of "MORAN'S All Natural 96/4 ground beef."

• 3-pound chubs of "STATER BROS. MARKETS 73/27 ground beef."

What Is Mad Cow Disease?

BSE is caused by malformed proteins called prions.

Researchers have traced the disease to farmers'

cost-cutting practice of mixing bits of dead sheep's

neural tissue into the feed of cattle, who are naturally

herbivorous. If cattle eat the brains of cattle who already have BSE,

or of sheep suffering from a sheep disease called scrapie, the cattle

can develop mad cow disease. When people eat the infected cattle, they could develop the human version of the disease, new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD).

Millions of cattle suspected of being infected with BSE in

England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Belgium, Italy, and other

countries have been slaughtered.

Whether it strikes cattle or people, mad cow disease

is always fatal. The disease eats holes in the brain.

In humans, it initially causes memory loss and erratic

behavior, and over a period of months, its victims gradually

lose all ability to care for themselves or communicate, and

eventually, they die.