maybe OT, but might save your life: Whole Foods recalls ground beef

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Whole Foods recalls ground beef

7 Mass. residents are ill after eating tainted meat

Boston Globe

 

Seven people in Massachusetts have fallen ill, most likely after eating beef

sold at Whole Foods Market, leading the grocery chain yesterday to recall

all ground beef sold between June 2 and Aug. 6.

 

The contamination is a major blow to a chain that promotes its food as

superior to a typical grocery store's - and that is already struggling in

the weak economy.

 

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First California Attorney General Jerry Brown filed suit against WFMI for

carrying numerous bodycarep products with 1,4-dioxane, a proven carcinogen.

I wrote about this as Managing Editor of Santa Fe Sun News, and then I wrote

several articles over the past two months, asking the FTC to reexamine their

prior correct ruling that Whole Foods/Wild Oats merger was an illegal

monopolistic merger, and as such as violation of anti trust laws.

 

Then the Federal Court of Appeals panel decided to remand the case back to

the original Federal Trial Judge Friedman as his ruling was flawed, to allow

the merger to continue without clearly understanding what the FTC was saying.

 

Now, this. E Coli at the most trusted (supposedly, which I don't share for a

minute) " organic " chain in the United States: there were numerous warnings

that Nebraska Beef was a bad one, but Whole Foods kept using them. One

fellow on Finance Message Board stated that this proves Whole Foods is

no different from other Big Box stores. What a beating the stock will

deservedly take.

TIME TO BAIL OUT AND SELL YOU SHARES WHILE YOU CAN. WFMI will hit hat sizes

soon, like 7 3/4.