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Cargill Inc. said Saturday that it was recalling more than 1 million pounds of ground beef that might be contaminated with E. coli bacteria.

A few farmers in the region are raising small herds, meeting a demand for bison meat.

The comforts of gravy — in lean years and fat.

New Jersey consumer safety officials said yesterday that state inspectors bought recalled frozen hamburgers at a store weeks after the meat was recalled because of fears of E. coli contamination. The 19 boxes were bought in Union City on Wednesday, nearly four weeks after the manufacturer, the Topps Meat Company, issued a nationwide recall of 21.7 million pounds of frozen patties. Officials would not name the store yesterday because of the investigation, and investigators have not determined wh…

The questions people ask make it sound as though I should be morally outraged at myself, as if it’s impossible to scratch the pigs behind the ears and still intend to kill them.

Topps Meat Co is out of business, but case points up broader problems in nation’s system for protecting consumers from food-borne illness; five years ago, government demanded more stringent safeguards against contamination because of deadly form of germ E coli; federal regulators now acknowledge that controls are not working in some meat plants; they are trying to figure out what went wrong and how to overcome dangers; government has determined that Topps reduced its testing of ground beef and …

The Department of Agriculture has announced standards that would only allow meat to be labeled as grass fed if it came from animals that ate nothing but grass.

The federal effort to flush out illegal immigrants is having major effects on workers and employers alike.

Hackepeter and other misadventures in eating abroad.

The Sam’s Club warehouse chain has pulled a brand of ground beef patties from its shelves nationwide after four children who ate the food, produced by Cargill Inc., developed E. coli illness.