Wouldn’t it be nice if we could somehow go back to the days when people would grind their own meat at home, or maybe at least get it ground to order at a local store? That certainly would avoid gigantic recalls like this latest one, involving 41,000 pounds of commercially processed and packaged by Tyson Fresh Meats Inc., of Dakota City, Nebraska, that federal inspectors suspect may be contaminated by E. coli bacteria.

The wholesale meat was packed in cases of eight 10-pound poly-wrapped cylinders (known as “chubs”) and shipped to institutions and distributors in Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

More information is available from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and from Tyson.