Unsafe food: The Burger That Shattered Her Life

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The Burger That Shattered Her Life

By MICHAEL MOSS

, 22, was left paralyzed in 2007 after

eating a burger tainted by E. coli. Tracing her burger

shows why eating ground beef is still a gamble.

" I ask myself every day, 'Why me?' and 'Why from a hamburger?' "

- STEPHANIE SMITH, a former dance teacher who was paralyzed after eating

a burger containing a virulent strain of E. coli.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/health/04meat.html?th & emc=th

Video: Tainted Meat -- The Sickening of

Neither the system meant to make meat safe, nor the meat itself, is what

consumers have been led to believe.

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/10/03/health/1247464978948/tainted-meat.html\

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