🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <>, jfurr@acpub.duke.edu (Joel K. Furr) wrote:

>gregor@nando.net wrote:
>>In NC this delightful meal would be criminal.  Isn't that just silly?

>No, because restaurants that serve rare hamburgers are basically serving
>up E. coli since insufficient heat penetrates into the middle of the
>burger to kill the bacteria. 

>I'm sorry that you think it's a bad idea to have basic health regulations 
>at restaurants.  

I think it's a bad idea to have excessive government regulation.  If people
were dying left and right from eating rare hamburgers in an adjacent state
where they are legal, don't you think we would be hearing about it?

People have been eating rare hamburger (even raw hamburger) for many
generations.  Three years ago the NC State Leg, in a knee-jerk response to the
Jack-in-the-Box e. Coli cases, outlawed rare hamburgers instead of addressing
the true problem of inadequate food inspection regulations and procedures.  
E. coli is most dangerous to the very young and the very old.  I am presently
neither.

You can order *raw*  hamburger in Hamburg, Germany.  I can't remember the last
news item about someone getting sick from it.

I'm not advocating forcing anyone to eat rare hamburgers, but I assert that it
is silly for the state to have OUTLAWED them.  And I was glad to have had a
GREAT one this week, in a state that respects individual liberty enough to
allow a man to order his meat cooked to his liking, not the the brown-nosed
sensibilities of some anhedonistic boor.

This state really sucks.  They fill the rivers with pig shit and then worry
about grown men and women potentially poisoning themselves with cow shit!

Gregor