Word: meat
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...impact is now apparent. Around Yellowstone, elk kills are more common, a welcome development for park managers hoping to bring that animal's population back to manageable levels. The wolves often eat only 200 lbs. of the meat on a 500-lb. animal they fell, leaving plenty for other animals to scavenge. Wolf packs also appear to have killed as many as half the coyotes in at least two areas of the park, opening up ecological breathing room for foxes and other species. Even highland vegetation, no longer chewed up by hungry elk, is expected to start making a comeback...
...height of the barbecue season last August, more than a dozen people became seriously ill from ground beef contaminated by a virulent strain of bacteria known as E. coli 0157:H7, which was traced to a Columbus, Neb., processing plant. The incident prompted the nation's largest meat recall, a whopping 25 million lbs. of beef patties. It also brought a vow from gourmand Clinton to wage a major war for food safety...
...activists as the Vermont-based group Food & Water. Even major food companies, while publicly lauding the FDA decision as long overdue, privately confess they are not all that eager to implement it. Before investing in the costly shielded radiation rooms that will be needed to sterilize fresh or frozen meat on an assembly-line basis (and will add 3[cents] or 4[cents] to the retail price of chopped sirloin), they want to gauge consumer demand. Admits John Masefield, chief executive of the Whippany, N.J., medical sterilization company Isomedix, whose three-year-old petition prompted the FDA action...
...contamination of ground beef, which, unlike pork or poultry, is often eaten rare. Still, before irradiated beef can become available, the Department of Agriculture must issue new regulations for its processing and labeling, which makes it unlikely, says a departmental official, that you'll find zapped beef patties in meat coolers before next summer's barbecues. Meanwhile, better hold that steak tartare...
...standard items. At the unit that serves hot breakfast, we have pancakes and French toast that can be made with soy milk," Dougherty says. TYPES OF VEGETARIAN DIETS There are many strains of vegetarianism, and each variation carries its own restrictions. Type Prohibited Foods Lactovegetarian Meat, fish, poultry, eggs Lacto-ovo-vegetarian Meat, fish, poultry Semivegetarian Meat, but may include small amounts of fish and poultry in the diet Vegan Meat, fish, poultry, eggs, dairy Source: Dingott, M.S., R.D., Susan and Johanna Dwyer, Sc. D., R.D. Vegetarianism: Healthful but Unnecessary. Quackwatch...