It used to be what were once considered "fast-food" joints were locally runned and owned mom and pop resturaunts. Places that got their meats and veggies from locally owned ranches and farms. From slaughter to serving, there weren't many steps in the production chain. Times change. To keep up with population explosions, urban sprawl, and the general chaos of modern life, local diners became franchises and spread like a virus across the country. Success required menu consistancy from one city to the next.This gave way to the factory farming boom. You know the song. Nowadays the production chain is vast and complex and harder to monitor illness and misstreatment often slip through the cracks. When cows get sick, they get loaded up with antibiotics. The bacteria evolve, and eventually drugs don't work. All it takes is a little carelessness... say, not cooking the meat thoroughly enough to incinerate the microbes to cause diaster. Its a lesson that American fast-food junkies learned the hard way back in the early 1990's. Meet Escherichia coli, a.k.a. E. coli. It may not look like much, but these little microbes can ruin your life. Providing they don't kill you outright. Now E. coli comes in several different strains, and most are commonly found in our lower intestine. These are harmless. The strain you have to worry about is O157:H7, which lives in the digestive system and fecal matter of cows. to meet demand, industrial meet packers grind up all kinds of low-grade material into beef... that's right, trace the amount of cow crap gets in there too. After eating one of those tainted burgers Brianne was hit with H.U.S, hemolytic uremic syndrome. Her symptoms started almost immediatly, stomach cramping, bloody diarrhea... A few days later the toxin produced by the E. coli bacteria attacked her brain, liver, and kidneys. Her pancreas shut down. She suffered seizures and strokes and eventually fell into coma. Her parents held out hope for a miracle, but none of the doctors expected her to make it. In the meantime, the whole incident was a public-relations nightmare for the company. The outbreak was traced to undercooked beef patties, grilled so based on corparate policy to serve burgers cooked to meidium rather than well done. It wasn't all bad news. Brianne's parents got their miracle after 40 days, she woke up from her coma. She was alive, but thanks to the brain damage she suffered, she had to learn how to eat, walk, and use the bathroom all over again. She was alive... but her life would never be the same again. She woke up from her coma diabetic. She had asthma. She would neve be able to have children, all thanks to an uncooked cheeseburger.
Uh cool story bro? Really though what is the point of this beyond people saying "Aw thats rough. Glad she pulled through"? Unless you made this up as your own story.
It used to be what were once considered "fast-food" joints were locally runned and owned mom and pop resturaunts. Places that got their meats and veggies from locally owned ranches and farms. From slaughter to serving, there weren't many steps in the production chain. Times change.
Speak for yourself. Maybe I don't have "Ma and pa" stores around, but do to the fact that Montana has less humans than cows, we eat a lot of meat from our state. In fact, I seem to remember the semi-local Macdonalds advertising something like "Made with Montana beef" or "Supporting Montana farmers" or something like that. I suppose it would be a lot harder if you are one o' dem city folk, where you don't have any local food supplies, but so what? Does it matter where the meat comes from?
To keep up with population explosions, urban sprawl, and the general chaos of modern life, local diners became franchises and spread like a virus across the country. Success required menu consistancy from one city to the next.This gave way to the factory farming boom.
...Once again, speak for yourself city slicker. I have plenty of local food places, and my town is half a mile across. We have two burger places, one keeps closing down and reselling and one takes forever. We also have a Mexican food place, two pizza places, and probably some places I forgot to mention. And factory farming may happen elsewhere, but once again not here. There is a ton of cows here, in fields not factories.
You know the song. Nowadays the production chain is vast and complex and harder to monitor illness and misstreatment often slip through the cracks.
Since when? What song? Last I checked, if they made their coffee to hot, you can sue them for a million dollars. Seriously, how is that mistreatment?
When cows get sick, they get loaded up with antibiotics. The bacteria evolve, and eventually drugs don't work. All it takes is a little carelessness... say, not cooking the meat thoroughly enough to incinerate the microbes to cause diaster.
...Since when does this happen? I would like to read your sources.
. Its a lesson that American fast-food junkies learned the hard way back in the early 1990's. Meet Escherichia coli, a.k.a. E. coli. It may not look like much, but these little microbes can ruin your life. Providing they don't kill you outright. Now E. coli comes in several different strains, and most are commonly found in our lower intestine. These are harmless. The strain you have to worry about is O157:H7, which lives in the digestive system and fecal matter of cows.
Yes. Healthy cows. It doesn't matter if you hop them up on antibiotics, even if you did, it still wouldn't matter.
After eating one of those tainted burgers Brianne was hit with H.U.S, hemolytic uremic syndrome. Her symptoms started almost immediatly, stomach cramping, bloody diarrhea... A few days later the toxin produced by the E. coli bacteria attacked her brain, liver, and kidneys. Her pancreas shut down. She suffered seizures and strokes and eventually fell into coma.
Who is this Brianne? Is this happening in Europe with the apparent outbreak? And besides that, half those things are not even products of the bacteria. The bacteria can shut down kidneys rarely, and can cause the bloody diarrhea, but not the rest of the things. If those where the symptoms, then you don't have Escherichia coli O157:H7.
In the meantime, the whole incident was a public-relations nightmare for the company. The outbreak was traced to undercooked beef patties, grilled so based on corparate policy to serve burgers cooked to meidium rather than well done.
So...What company is this? I would really like to see your sources.
It wasn't all bad news. Brianne's parents got their miracle after 40 days, she woke up from her coma. She was alive, but thanks to the brain damage she suffered, she had to learn how to eat, walk, and use the bathroom all over again.
Brain damage from bacteria that doesn't cause it? She better be careful, a cold will probably crack her spine.
Their point isn't about the person, they are just an example of what can happen so easily if companies aren't aware of danger they can cause to customers or just don't care.
Sad story indeed. However, these things happen with meat, with vegetables, with fish... and every possible type of food. It's the tipical problem with massive production. I don't think there are avaiable solutions right now (there probably are too expensive solutions or something like that).
