If you had planned to have a fast-food night at a major American brand, reading this information may swallow your desire.
A survey by the American magazine Consumer Reports reveals that almost all burgers contain fecal matter, which is scattered (and fortunately invisible to the naked eye), in the ground beef.
To arrive at these results, the authors of the survey bought 300 boxes of industrial ground beef, or nearly 200 kilos of meat sold in a hundred stores in several cities in the United States, reports the Metro site which relays the information. 181 samples of minced meat from “conventional breeding” were also shelled.
The results of this meat examination are not very appealing. All of the minced meat showed enterococci. These bacteria do not cause infections in healthy people, but they can promote UTIs or infections of the blood.
Worse, a fifth of the industrial ground beef analyzed contained bacteria resistant to at least three classes of antibiotics. That is three times more than meat raised in the open air, compares Metro.
This is enough to cool the appetite of the French for one of their favorite dishes. They are indeed the biggest hamburger consumersin Europe, just behind the English. On average, a French person eats 14 hamburgers per year compared to 17 per person across the Channel. On a global scale of one year, French consumption amounts to 780 million hamburgers, which means that nearly 25 burgers are swallowed every second, according to the real-time statistics site Planetoscope.
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