Warning: This product may cause sickness,...

Warning: This product may cause sickness, paralysis, and death

It's hard to draw any other conclusion from Michael Moss's New York Times blockbuster investigative piece on E. coli in industrial beef, which is centered on the plight of Stephanie Smith, a young dance instructor left comatose, near death and now paralyzed from eating a single Cargill hamburger. Tom Laskawy draws his own conclusions.