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USA: Learn About Cargill, the Company Feeling the Heat from the Times’ Beef Investigation

5 October 2009

According to this CNN Money report from last year, Cargill, the manufacturer of the ground beef that partially paralyzed the dance instructor profiled in Sunday’s New York Times, is the second largest privately held company in the country(...)

And yet according to the Times‘ story, Cargill, despite its wealth, can’t seem to follow its own safety practices, doesn’t want to test its suppliers’ meat before grinding, and seems to enjoy some measure of protection from the U.S. Department of Agriculture....


Source: Learn About Cargill, the Company Feeling the Heat from the Times’ Beef Investigation

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Date: 2009-10-08