Hi there,

In coming days Democracy Now! will continue to bring you post-election results and in-depth analysis on on the impact of the coming Trump administration. Because Democracy Now! does not accept corporate advertising or sponsorship revenue, we rely on viewers like you to feature voices and analysis you won’t get anywhere else. Can you donate $15 to Democracy Now! today to support our post-election coverage? Right now, a generous donor will DOUBLE your gift, which means your $15 donation is worth $30. Please help us air in-depth, substantive coverage of the outcome of the election and what it means for our collective future. Thank you so much! Every dollar makes a difference.

-Amy Goodman

Non-commercial news needs your support.

We rely on contributions from you, our viewers and listeners to do our work. If you visit us daily or weekly or even just once a month, now is a great time to make your monthly contribution.

Please do your part today.

Donate

MEAT POISONING

StoryAugust 25, 1997
Media Options
    Related

    Burger King, Safeway, Wal Mart, and Boston Market were among the companies last week that were scrambling to rid their stores of tons of poisoned hamburger meat supplied by a Hudson Foods factory in Nebraska.

    In what was the largest recall of beef in US history, Agricultural Secretary Dan Glickman last week forced Hudson Foods to call in 25 million pounds of ground beef from stores around the country. Food inspectors say the hamburger patties could be contaminated by E. Coli bacteria. So far, investigators have traced 17 people who became ill from the beef, all of them from Colorado. But bacteria in food kills an estimated 9,000 people a year in the United States.

    Guest:
    • Nicols Fox, an investigative journalist whose work has appeared in such publications as The Economist, The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. She is the author of Spoiled: The Dangerous Truth About a Food Chain Gone Haywire.

    Related Story

    StoryNov 06, 2024“This Is a Collapse of the Democratic Party”: Ralph Nader on Roots of Trump’s Win Over Harris
    The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

    Non-commercial news needs your support

    We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
    Please do your part today.
    Make a donation
    Top