I'll see if I can find the article that I read recently about the many more people that get E.coli from vegetables than meat.  When's the last time you cooked a salad?  If it's
more prominent from eating vegetables, it doesn't matter how much you cook your meat.  Agriculture is BIG business.  It's much easier to scapegoat meat than a salad.  There were
one hundred fifty some odd people in Chicago that got E.coli from lettuce recently.  It didn't get very much press.  But when a few people get it from a hamburger chain it's big
news.

Just my $.02
    Bill

"Anna L. Abrante" wrote:

>   This keeps me separate from what is *natural*.  And if I am this
>   way, I know there are others.  And just as I have had food
>   poisoning several times in my life, I know others have also.
>   And this is while always eating *cooked* meats.  If I had eaten
>   that food raw...how bad would I have caught it? Food
>   poisoning is more common than we think, and most of us get it
>  from *cooked* meats that were accidentally undercooked.