How Convenient for Copper Collectors - Beef, with Copper - for US Consumers

[gunDriller]

"In 2008, Mexican authorities rejected a shipment of U.S. beef because the meat exceeded Mexico's regulatory tolerance for copper. The rejected meat was returned to the United States, where it was sold and consumed, because the U.S. has no regulatory threshold for copper in meat."

http://www.alternet.org/food/146684/american_meat_is_even_grosser_than_you_thought

In case you couldn't figure out why you were setting off the metal detector ...

[woodman]

Gives a new meaning to beef 'bullion'.

[Ponce]

Should had taken the beef to the junk yard and gotten more more money for the metal than the meat.

First post of the day............good morning to one and all.