8.7 Million lbs of Beef Products Recalled
AP
Posted: 02/09/2014 4:59 am EST Updated: 02/10/2014 3:59 pm EST
PETALUMA, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California company is recalling more than 8.7 million pounds of beef products because it processed diseased and unhealthy animals without a full federal inspection, federal officials said Saturday.
That's just over a year's worth of meat products processed by Rancho Feeding Corp., which has been under scrutiny by the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service. The agency said that without full inspection, the recalled products are unfit for human consumption.
Here's a list of the recalled products.
The products were processed from Jan. 1, 2013, through Jan. 7, 2014, and shipped to distribution centers and retail stores in California, Florida, Illinois and Texas. They include beef carcasses, oxtail, liver, cheeks, tripe, tongue and veal bones.
Last month the company recalled more than 40,000 pounds of meat products produced on Jan. 8 that also didn't undergo a full inspection.
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List of recalled products:
"Beef Carcasses” (wholesale and custom sales only)
2 per box "Beef (Market) Heads" (retail only)
4-gallons per box "Beef Blood" (wholesale only)
20-lb. boxes of “Beef Oxtail”
30-lb. boxes of “Beef Cheeks”
30-lb. boxes of " Beef Lips"
30-lb. boxes of "Beef Omasum"
30-lb. boxes of "Beef Tripas"
30-lb. boxes of "Mountain Oysters"
30-lb. boxes of "Sweet Breads”
30- and 60-lb. boxes of “Beef Liver”
30- and 60-lb. boxes of “Beef Tripe”
30- and 60-lb. boxes of “Beef Tongue”
30- and 60-lb. boxes of "Veal Cuts"
40-lb. boxes of "Veal Bones"
50-lb. boxes of “Beef Feet”
50-lb. boxes of “Beef Hearts”
60-lb. boxes of "Veal Trim"
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If they recalled all these "extra" beef products because of the possibility of the cows being diseased, what about all the steaks and ground beef that came from them?
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It's taken me many hours to even come close to formulating a response to this news that almost nine million pounds of beef is being thrown in the garbage this time. We must be the stupidest people on the face of the Earth.
There were herds of cattle that were not humanely cared for ("diseased and unhealthy"
, were not conscientiously inspected by either the growers or state/federal employees, were slaughtered under gods know what conditions, were rendered and sent to market. AND ONLY THEN did someone realize they were unfit for human consumption. All I can do at this point is pray they are not recycled into animal food now, to continue the cycle of disease.
GW Bush gutted the departments responsible for inspections and enforcement. There are far, far too few inspectors to even begin to do the job adequately.
There are children in this country who go to bed hungry at night, who start the day without a good breakfast, who -- oh shit, you know as well as I do. And we are 
throwing nine million pounds of beef in the garbage.
