take back those beef livers...

I just read an article on cnn.com that 143 million pounds of beef has been recalled. "The amount of beef -- 143 million pounds -- is roughly enough for two hamburgers for each man, woman and child in the United States." Yikes! That's a lot of meat. The bad news is that most of it has probably already been consumed so there's not much we can do about it.

It was recalled because of sketchy practices used by one of the major slaughterhouses. It reminds me of reading the book Fast Food Nation which I highly recommend. I'm not really sure which is more disturbing; the fact that they have video of "workers kicking cows, jabbing them near their eyes, ramming them with a forklift and shooting high-intensity water up their noses in an effort to force them to their feet for slaughter" or the list of recalled items .

If you scan that list of beef items being recalled, you first see normal things like ground beef, steaks, etc. But if you continue reading, you find items such as beef cheeks, spleens, bile, small intestines, tongue trimmings, salivary glands, lymph nodes, tails, and blood.

The moral of this story? Check to make sure the meat packing beef lymph nodes you have in your freezer didn't come from Hallmark Meat Packing! I'm off to bed.