E.C. also stands for E. Coli.

Dear burger-loving friends:

E.C. are not just my initials. As the New York Times recently wrote, they are also E. Coli, a health threat that can live in our hamburger meat.

Does this mean we should all stop eating our hamburgers? No, but it does mean that we should be safe about it. Just days after their original article went to print, NYT followed up with a piece about Costco and Tyson's reaction to the news.

Like vegetarianism, the choice is yours. I'll still be loading up my buns, but that doesn't mean that I won't continue to order my meat medium-well and leave the pink somewhere else.