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This just in! From Yuma, Arizona, and Community Correspondent; Adjusted by SDRoads:


Local Consumers Keep Eating Meat
Posted:
Feb 19, 2008 09:42 PM PST
Updated:
Feb 19, 2008 09:42 PM PST
In the wake of the largest beef recall in U.S. history, consumers are expected to keep eating beef.
Not even the horrific images caught by the humane society are keeping consumers from ordering meat at local restaurants.
Inez Gutierrez, owner of a local restaurant says, costumers keep ordering beef fajitas without hesitation. "Yes every day, all day, customers order carne asada tacos, burritos, fajitas it hasn't stopped. I don't see any difference in our business since the beef recall".
We contacted other restaurants in the city of Yuma and they all agreed, no decrease in meat orders.
So far no illnesses have been linked to the beef and consumers have endured other food scares but it is still good to be cautious.
Caroline Smith Dewaal spokes woman for the the Center for Science in Public Interest says it's critically important that consumers ask the retailers if ground beef they have is part of the recall.
Meantime, economist compare the beef recall with the mad cow disease incident in 2003, where beef exports dropped but domestic demand was the same.

UPDATE: As of 03/05/2008:

This morning, as I got ready for the day, I heard the story on my local news show, that meat was being banned and confiscated. I further heard that it was to be buried in a land fill??? I ran a search on the net to get abreast of the situation, and, as of this point, came up with the following out of Oregon: Congress has banned certain meat for consumption.

http://www.oregonlive.com/enter/index.ssf?/newsflash/national/index.ssf%3f/base/national-100/1204662583115840.xml&storylist=ornational

www.hsus.org/farm/news/ournews/oregon_legislature_bans_gestation.html

Update by SDRoads