WHAT'S LURKING IN YOUR HAMBURGER?

FLAWED BEEF INSPECTION POLICY
HARMFUL TO CONSUMERS

USA - (Topnews Network) - The current beef inspection policies are inadequate due to which consumers face a danger from all foods containing beef. A young 22 year old woman became paralyzed after eating hamburger meat contaminated with a dangerous strain of E. coli bacteria. A detailed investigation of Stephanie Smith's case (woman who was paralyzed by the infection) led to the finding that beef purchased as 'ground beef' is especially at a high risk for contamination and tends to be poorly regulated in terms of quality. The main cause was the bacterium E. coli.

Ground beef is more vulnerable to the bacteria as it comes from various sources ground together in a process that makes contamination possible in every step. The source of the tainted hamburger was tracked down to different slaughterhouses and packaging plants in the U. S. and Uruguay. Insufficient testing and careless mechanisms led to the infected burger."Ground beef is not a completely safe product," said Dr. Jeffrey Bender, a food safety expert at the University of Minnesota.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?

āyuḥ-sattva-balārogya-
sukha-prīti-vivardhanāḥ
rasyāḥ snigdhāḥ sthirā hṛdyā
āhārāḥ sāttvika-priyāḥ

Foods dear to those in the mode of goodness increase the duration of life, purify one's existence and give strength, health, happiness and satisfaction. Such foods are juicy, fatty, wholesome, and pleasing to the heart.

Bhagavad-gītā As It Is 17.8.-

For a human being there are eatables described in Bhagavad-gītā (17.8) as sāttvika - āhāra, or food in the mode of goodness. One should not indulge in eating food in the modes of passion and ignorance. This is called ucitāhāra, or appropriate eating. ... Unless one can become free from the influence of passion and ignorance, he cannot be pacified, and without being pacified, one cannot understand the science of God.

Srila A.C. BV Swami Prabhupada:
"The Srimad Bhagavatam - Purport in Canto 4 - Chapter 26 - Verse 11"