Feed me Seymour.

Not sure if you read this investigative piece in the New York Times, launched by a woman's tragic fate after eating a hamburger. It's so maddening to read the practices of the meat industry and might push Ginger even closer to becoming a vegetarian. I highly recommend reading that article and if you haven't already, also read Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation", which was first published in 2001 but does not seem to have lost any relevance. I mean, think about it, McDonald's advertises their great ingredients so proudly, but when anyone says "100% Beef" on their product, it really has no meaning at all. All those fat trimmings, no matter how much feces they are contaminated with, are considered beef. Oh, and if you're you're a patty-maker and would like to test the stuff other people supply you with, they might just stop supplying you because of that. That's how confident they are in their hygiene practices. So disgusting.
This industrialized process of making food is a serious problem, and I'm sure we'll hear about a push to irradiate our food to kill e.coli, but that would only fight the symptoms, not the cause. To paraphrase Eric Schlosser, irradiating meat might just lead meat manufacturers to be even less rigorous with hygiene standards, as they know they can just zap it afterward. So in the end you would end up with even less good meat, but more irradiated feces on your plate. Enjoy!