No, Seattlest is not just a fan of alliteration and 80's slang, as the headline might suggest. Burying the beef, is the current plan of the Seattle Public School District to rid itself of 230 cases of possibly contaminated beef. The beef, provided to school districts through a USDA lunch program, came from a California slaughterhouse in the center of the largest beef recall in USDA history.

Nearly two-thirds of the school districts in Washington State are grappling with the same problem as the Seattle Public School District. There is an estimated 250,000 pounds of the possibly contaminated beef in the possession of state school districts. State officials will dispose of an additional 350,000 pounds of the beef that had yet to be sent to schools. It's not only Washington State schools affected by the recall; a quick Google news check found pages upon pages of stories about school districts in Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, California and Montana dealing with the bad beef.

While Seattle hopes to bury the cases of beef they have, the Spokane School District plans to incinerate the beef in a municipal incinerator. Skip Skinner, food distribution supervisor for state superintendent for public instruction, said that most of the contaminated beef will be disposed of in landfills throughout the state.

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