Ground Beef is a Bad Thing

I know it is convenient and cheap and actually a good source of protein. It is high in fat which is bad but it is also high in E.Coli which is even worse. If you insist of having a burger or chili or meat sauce or whatever and you need to have some ground beef then grind it yourself from whole cuts of meat. It is hugely safer and you know what is in what you are eating. Find the cheapest cuts of not ground beef and grind it up in your food processor or with two cleavers. Whatever. There is a reason it is cheaper than whole cuts of beef. Remember the immortal words of Robert Heinlein....TANSTAAFL (There ain't no such thing as a free lunch). It applies to buying dead animal products and pretty much everything else in the grocery.