Margaret Lamkin doesn’t visit her
grandchildren much anymore. She never flies. She avoids wearing dresses.
And she worries about infections and odors.
Three years ago, at
age 87, Lamkin was forced to wear a colostomy bag for the rest of her
life after a virulent meat-borne pathogen destroyed her colon and nearly
killed her.
What made her so sick? A medium-rare steak she ate nine days earlier at an Applebee’s restaurant.
Lamkin,
like most consumers today, didn’t know she had ordered a steak that had
been run through a mechanical tenderizer. In a lawsuit, Lamkin said her
steak came from National Steak Processors Inc., which claimed it got
the contaminated meat from a U.S. plant run by Brazilian-based JBS — the
biggest beef packer in the world.
“You trust people, trust that
nothing is going to happen,” Lamkin said, “but they (beef companies) are
mass-producing this and shoveling it into us.”
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