Where's the beef? 1,000,000 pounds of ground beef and beef products recalled in less than one month

Colorado Firm Recalls (466,236 pounds) Ground Beef Products Due To Possible Salmonella Contamination and earlier in July (386,483 pounds) due to possible e. coli (see previous post).

I can't make this stuff up! The link below is direct to the federal governments recall page. Over one million pounds of beef products in under one month have been recalled? What happens to all this "bad" meat? And the good news..."this strain of Salmonella is resistant to many commonly prescribed drugs." Is that government speak for... antibiotics! No kidding? Could it have anything to do with the antibiotics fed to the cattle.

Please tell me I'm not the crazy one?

As a result of an ongoing investigation into an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium DT104 associated with ground beef products, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) notified FSIS of the problem. Epidemiological investigations and a case control study conducted by CDPHE and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) determined that there is an association between the fresh ground beef products and 14 illnesses reported in Colorado. The illnesses were linked through the epidemiological investigation by their less common pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) pattern found in PulseNet, a national network of public health and food regulatory agency laboratories coordinated by the CDC.

This particular strain of Salmonella, Salmonella Typhimurium DT104, is resistant to many commonly prescribed drugs, which can increase the risk of hospitalization or possible treatment failure in infected individuals.