{"id":1439,"date":"2011-05-20T15:08:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T19:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2011-05-20T15:08:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T19:08:41","slug":"north-carolina%e2%80%99s-rare-burger-ban-makes-red-meat-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/05\/north-carolina%e2%80%99s-rare-burger-ban-makes-red-meat-illegal.html","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina\u2019s Rare Burger Ban Makes Red Meat Illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>WATCHWOMAN QUESTIONS? <span style=\"color: #000000\">\u2022 <\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Are you tired of government interference? <\/span>\u2022 \u00a0What do you think of all the recent &#8220;bans&#8221; that government is dictating? \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0\u00a0Do you think that the U.S. Big Government (The Nanny State) has become the Big Dictator model that the 50 states and localities are emulating? <strong>\u2022 <\/strong>Shouldn&#8217;t it be left to the individual to be able to order his burger the way he wants it or should government be able to dictate the temperature of cooked beef? \u00a0<strong>\u2022 <\/strong>Why do you think government is initiating all these new laws and regulations? \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0Is it for your benefit or their&#8217;s? \u00a0<strong>\u2022 <\/strong>Do you think that Americans are too stupid to make their own choices? \u00a0<strong>\u2022 <\/strong>Why do you think Americans are allowing Big Government to reorder their lives? \u00a0<strong>\u2022 <\/strong>Do you want the &#8220;Kitchen Police&#8221; to dictate what you and your family can eat and how to cook it? \u00a0<strong>\u2022 <\/strong>What happened? \u00a0<strong>\u2022 <\/strong>When did it start and why? \u00a0<strong>\u2022 <\/strong>How did it start? \u00a0<strong>\u2022 <\/strong>Where did it start? \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0How much control is too much? \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0What do you believe will be the outcome of these restrictive new laws and regulations to reorder and dictate the\u00a0minutia\u00a0of our lives? \u00a0<strong>\u2022 <\/strong>Have you read &#8220;1984&#8221; and\/or &#8220;Atlas Shrugs&#8221;? \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0Do you think the U.S.A. is headed in the right direction making all these new laws and regulations with bans and restrictions? \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0\u00a0Leave your comments.<strong> \u25ac Donna Calvin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/bighealthreport.com\/2011\/05\/rare-burger-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>There may be no food more American than the burger. And according to meat lovers, there may be no health code regulation less American than North Carolina\u2019s rare and medium rare burger ban. From Winston-Salem to Nags Head, meat eaters are unable to order their burgers rare or even medium rare thanks to a state restriction that requires restaurants to cook ground beef to an internal temperature of 155 degrees Fahrenheit.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s enough heat to sufficiently kill dangerous bacteria like E. coli, according to state health officials. But it\u2019s also enough heat to kill all of the flavor, according to Raleigh resident and rare burger aficionado Steven Elliot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t believe in a nanny state when it comes to food,\u201d said Elliot, who told AOL Weird News he would order his burgers \u201cbloody\u201d or \u201cready to moo\u201d if he could.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weirdnews.aol.com\/2011\/05\/17\/north-carolina-rare-burger-ban_n_861306.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of story:\u00a0http:\/\/weirdnews.aol.com\/2011\/05\/17\/north-carolina-rare-burger-ban_n_861306.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WATCHWOMAN QUESTIONS? \u2022 Are you tired of government interference? \u2022 \u00a0What do you think of all the recent &#8220;bans&#8221; that government is dictating? \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0\u00a0Do you think that the U.S. Big Government (The Nanny State) has become the Big Dictator model that the 50 states and localities are emulating? \u2022 Shouldn&#8217;t it be left to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[599,428,68,450,434],"tags":[9365,600,601,598,597],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-government","category-health-medicine","category-political-correctness","category-politics","category-propaganda","tag-big-government","tag-dictators-in-usa","tag-individual-freedoms-lost","tag-north-carolina","tag-rare-burgers-illegal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>North Carolina\u2019s Rare Burger Ban Makes Red Meat Illegal  - Watchwoman on the Wall<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/05\/north-carolina\u2019s-rare-burger-ban-makes-red-meat-illegal.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"North Carolina\u2019s Rare Burger Ban Makes Red Meat Illegal  - Watchwoman on the Wall\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"WATCHWOMAN QUESTIONS? \u2022 Are you tired of government interference? \u2022 \u00a0What do you think of all the recent &#8220;bans&#8221; that government is dictating? \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0\u00a0Do you think that the U.S. Big Government (The Nanny State) has become the Big Dictator model that the 50 states and localities are emulating? \u2022 Shouldn&#8217;t it be left to&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/05\/north-carolina\u2019s-rare-burger-ban-makes-red-meat-illegal.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Watchwoman on the Wall\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-05-20T19:08:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/bighealthreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/rare-burger-150x150.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Donna Calvin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"North Carolina\u2019s Rare Burger Ban Makes Red Meat Illegal  - Watchwoman on the Wall","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/05\/north-carolina\u2019s-rare-burger-ban-makes-red-meat-illegal.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"North Carolina\u2019s Rare Burger Ban Makes Red Meat Illegal  - Watchwoman on the Wall","og_description":"WATCHWOMAN QUESTIONS? \u2022 Are you tired of government interference? \u2022 \u00a0What do you think of all the recent &#8220;bans&#8221; that government is dictating? \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0\u00a0Do you think that the U.S. Big Government (The Nanny State) has become the Big Dictator model that the 50 states and localities are emulating? \u2022 Shouldn&#8217;t it be left to&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/05\/north-carolina\u2019s-rare-burger-ban-makes-red-meat-illegal.html","og_site_name":"Watchwoman on the Wall","article_published_time":"2011-05-20T19:08:41+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/bighealthreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/rare-burger-150x150.jpg"}],"author":"Donna Calvin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/05\/north-carolina%e2%80%99s-rare-burger-ban-makes-red-meat-illegal.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/05\/north-carolina%e2%80%99s-rare-burger-ban-makes-red-meat-illegal.html","name":"North Carolina\u2019s Rare Burger Ban Makes Red Meat Illegal - Watchwoman on the Wall","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/05\/north-carolina%e2%80%99s-rare-burger-ban-makes-red-meat-illegal.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/05\/north-carolina%e2%80%99s-rare-burger-ban-makes-red-meat-illegal.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/bighealthreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/rare-burger-150x150.jpg","datePublished":"2011-05-20T19:08:41+00:00","dateModified":"2011-05-20T19:08:41+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/#\/schema\/person\/1470e1ef6765f8a27f970307b0835df1"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/05\/north-carolina%e2%80%99s-rare-burger-ban-makes-red-meat-illegal.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/05\/north-carolina%e2%80%99s-rare-burger-ban-makes-red-meat-illegal.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/05\/north-carolina%e2%80%99s-rare-burger-ban-makes-red-meat-illegal.html#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/bighealthreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/rare-burger-150x150.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/bighealthreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/rare-burger-150x150.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2011\/05\/north-carolina%e2%80%99s-rare-burger-ban-makes-red-meat-illegal.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"North Carolina\u2019s Rare Burger Ban Makes Red Meat Illegal"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/","name":"Watchwoman on the Wall","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Donna Calvin","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/#\/schema\/person\/1470e1ef6765f8a27f970307b0835df1","name":"Donna Calvin","description":"In sixth grade my teacher told us that we were going to be the first generation to see the year 2000 and all things would be different. He continued that God wasn't important, wasn't real, and our parents just used God to impose restrictions on us because they were inadequate to parent effectively. I knew then I was going to be involved in a war and that I would have to be in Jesus Christ's Army. Even then, I knew the United States of America would cease to exist without the vast majority of its citizens voluntarily submitting to the Perfect and Good Laws of the Holy Bible. I am a woman who loves the Lord Jesus Christ. I am tired of seeing our LORD denigrated from the school house to the White House. I search the Internet for items that ought to serve as a warning to Americans and Christians all through America, but the nation seems to be sleeping. Wake up America! You are losing your freedoms, your children and your country. Wake up and help stop it!","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/author\/dcalvin"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1459,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}