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Posts Tagged ‘Cargill’

Learn About Cargill, the Company Feeling the Heat from the Times’ Beef Investigation

Posted by Tim Carman on Oct. 5, 2009 at 11:10 am

According to this CNN Money report from last year, Cargill, the manufacturer of the ground beef that partially paralyzed the dance instructor profiled in Sunday's New York Times, is the second largest privately held company in the country. Fortune magazine estimates that Cargill's 2007 revenues were $88 billion. The company's third quarter net earnings in 2008 [...]

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The Times’ Shattering Expose of Ground Beef: Where Does It Leave Burger Lovers?

Posted by Tim Carman on Oct. 5, 2009 at 9:07 am

The New York Times published a devastating piece on Sunday, detailing not only how a nasty strain of E. coli ruined the life of a young dance instructor but also how the tainted meat came to be in the first place. The short answer: because the inspection and safety system favors the beef industry, with [...]

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