RE: Raw eggs & meat - what standards to use? ( Bianca, pls....

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Belinda wrote:

> As far as organic, grass fed and all that goes,

> I would be more concerned with the food handling.

> I know I'll get beat up for this but while the

> animal's diet will improve your health mishandling

> of the carcass can kill ya! Where you get your meat

> becomes very important if you are not cooking your meat.

Belinda,

You're absolutely right. This is especially true since most processing

facilities don't just slaughter grass-fed, organic animals. If their

sanitation isn't up to snuff, the foulness of the other animals can make it

onto the cleaner animals. Grass-fed seriously reduces the likelihood of

*that particular* animal harborning and shedding dangerous strains of

e.coli, but it doesn't make the meat impervious to contamination from other

sources...and that's just one issue. There are, of course, many others.