Eating Hamburgers Still -- Second Thoughts?

Some beef products--especially a lot of ground beef--are limited to thigh meat and other parts of the cow that have yet to be found to have mad cow disease (even when the cow does). Just make sure you're getting beef from a reliable source.

Hey. What happened to eating only meat killed in accordance with kosher dietary laws?

Hey, I'm eating nothing but 100% Montana grown beef baby. I haven't paused a hitch.

i just had a steak yesterday...hmmm, now i'm hungry...think i'll get a burger now...thanks iwrite.

When we do eat beef, we eat only organic or grass-fed. Only when we go out to dinner to we deviate (that's if we end up eating beef).

Quit eating red meat years ago; don't miss it.

Are you suuure?

Nice sig, btw.

Yuck!

Sure.. the 'scare' was a REALIZATION, people, it didn't exactly change much..

It's probably safer now than it was before because at least people are keeping a *somewhat* closer eye on what happens - while it's doubtful it's any more then a glance that's better than nothing?

So sure. I know what I'm eating when I do that but it tastes pretty nice

ignore the watermark and tell me that doesn't look delish!

Well, it doesn't look cooked...at all!!

Aaaagh! It's still bleeding!

A little too red for my tastes, but it it were more pink... yum.

Cooked enough for me!

I like my meat red!

Same here. Some people don't realize that some of us just don't miss it.

"The Agriculture Department estimates that 130,000 down cattle are sent to meatpacking plants each year."

with that amount of sick cattle allowed in the food supply
chances are if you ate any COW this year you've all ready subjected yourself to BSE
so just ENJOY.....
u.s. government health "protection" is always reactionary hindsight not visionary.

i don't eat beef much, my wife and i buy ground turkey for things we make at home. i eat cheeseburgers sometimes...i don't eat much beef but now i dont think i will eat some for awhile...give me a good piece of chicken over some beef anyday.

I ordered a chicken caesar salad instead of my usual steak at Texas Roadhouse last night, and cutting back on red meat is something I've been meaning to do anyway. After hearing all of the horror stories from inside the USDA from my father, most meat isn't looking too great now. Luckily there's a Whole Foods nearby to get quality meat from.

Nope. Haven't thought twice about eating beef for over 15 years. I don't eat it. I don't think about it.

I swear, meat will one day be the death of us all.

Behold the vegetarians, for they shall inherit the earth.

I grind my own beef and don't like restaurant burgers (they overcook them.)

Most of the beef I eat was raised on our farm. I'll still eat beef in restaurents, I don't think I could ever give up hamburgers. Steak and beef roasts I can do without, but not burgers. I'll risk it.

You trying to say that vegetarians are meek?

Must be the lack of good protien.

What's "protien"? Is that the stuff which jocks take to lower their intelligence?

iWrites about food more than most...

Hell no, I'm not giving up beef. I'm having burgers tonight, as a matter of fact.

I hope people realize they're more likely to be struck by lightning or hit by a bus then get Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Heck, I'd imagine you have a greater chance of getting hit by both lightning and a bus at the same time then getting Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

benign: iWrite is preggers, hence the appetite.



Mastrap: I had broiled grouper and steamed vegetables.



Anyway, I couldn't believe it but the place was crammed full and they had a 30 minute wait and we asked the waitress if business had dropped off and she said, "Not at all."

I don't particularly want or like to eat beef, to be honest. I like fish and poultry. I like ground turkey if I need a burger or something resembling ground beef. Even turkey Italian sausage is great these days. I also really don't care for pork and I never eat lamb.

Anyway, everyone has great responses!

if you stop eating beef then the prions have already won

ate one tonight. doolittles burger. fine tasty.

No doubts. The odds of coming down with CJD are pretty remote.

I've got plenty in life at stake, and plenty to worry about and be afraid of. I positively, utterly refuse to be afraid of a sandwich.

Living in the UK, I'm probably fudged anyway! So it makes no difference...

"XL Big King please, could I have the extra Spinal Cord for 30p? Cheers...."

Haven't eaten a Hamburger in about 15 years, but I have had about 1 Kebab per year. Apart from that I almost never eat red meat, perhaps once a year.

As a guy I knew used to say when ordering steak, "Blow its nose, wipe its butt, and put it on the plate!"

That steak looks horrible. I like mine well done.

Anyway... I was under the impression that, in Australia anyway, it was illegal to use the brain of an animal in a meat product without explicit notice...

Anyway. I'll be eating as much red meat as ever.

Apparently you won't be. It will be gray and crispy, not red.


My beef philosophy is the redder the better. Oh man, I'm hungry.

I had a yummy cheese burger at McSorley's Old Ale House yesterday at 1:00 (along with about 18 lights) and a "Texas Burger" with bacon at Cozy Soup and Burger at about 6:00. I've felt no ill effect, with the possible exception of the dramatic increase in the viscosity of my blood!

Mad Cow, Mad Schmow!

Don't get me started on vegetarians Some...anyways.

Sorry Ciph but anyone who eats steak well done doesn't deserve to eat steak. Dry, grey, tasteless, horrible stuff.

Thankfully more and more restaurants refuse to serve beef, lamb and some fish at anything more than 'medium rare'.

I have to agree, well-done meat is hardly ever tender or tasteful.

So true! Well.. to an extent

Yep, the redder the better...

I like my meat to bleed when I use a fork and knife on it (and yes, I do know that this sentence could be misunderstood)

I love to eat beef and I must have it WELL done. What I want is a piece of burnt meat with some black crispies around the edge. I don't want to see any pink inside, nor any pink coloured juices collecting on the plate. Why? To me it simply tastes better.

Some folks like it so rare that I wonder why they even bother going to a restaurant. It would be cheaper to go to a butcher's shop and munch on a hunk of raw meat. Yuck!

BSE wont stop me until people start dying from it. Then, perhaps, I'll have to eat a lot of pork as I did in Germany a few years ago. But I have to say that eating only pork, when I want meat, gets old very quickly.

haven't eaten meat (or anything formerly alive) for over 3 years now. don't miss it, never will.

Yes you have, deekay, you've eaten plants.

When you kill a plant for food you rid the atmosphere of a useful creature that converts our bad air into oxygen again!

That's actually almost worse then killing an animal when you think about it

Damn vegans with no sense.

ohhkay...here we go.

a) no, "plants" are not "alive" in the same sense as "animals" are!

b) how in the **** do you know what i eat!

c) the cattle and livestock (after being raised in less than "admirable" conditions most of the time for your stupida$$ meateating habits) consumes far more "bad air to oxygen producing" plants etc. than all vegetarians and vegans on this planet cobined - not to mention all the bull$hit that comes with it.

so go ahead my little a$$nuggets. follow the herd...satisfy your meat cravings!

lol .... kinda sad in a way but true. :|

er... sorry :|

@iWrite

Here in the UK we went through a similar meat crisis, and again last year with the foot and mouth outbreak in sheep. Now the reasons why the British government took such extreme measures was because research showed a link between the sheep form of BSE and the cow form, however to this day they have not been able to prove a link between BSE in animals and CJD in humans.

However the political situation in Europe of course escalated the whole thing. As it turns out only a small amount of beef produced by the UK is actually consumed in the UK, the hamburger chains all source meat from either the Netherlands or Belgium because of price. The rest is exported or stored. So I think most people here continued eating meat anyway, especially since no health warning was issued.

Now I'm not burger fanatic however since I'm visiting the US next week for the MacWorld I will of course have to eat and to be honest I can't see eating any meat that is properly cooked as being an issue.

fudo

I'm going to cut down in 2004.

It making me loss my hair at a very young age. I don't think it's mad cow disease though.

My great-grandfather used to say "Walk the cow out here, I'll cut off my choice."

I like my steaks rare too. When the waiter/waitress asks how I wish it to be cooked I say, "Barely."

As far as vegitarians, there is a bumper sticker that says "Save a cow, eat a vegitarian." I think that's going too far. Cows taste better.

But I do refuse to eat green scallions. Those things are dangerous.