Read it in High School 25 yrs ago, had a girl in the class convinced up until the last page that the protaganist (and the dog) gets killed.
Do like Boulevard Wheat, probably what started me down the whole "dark beer" route. However, I'm now waayyyy over to the dark side!
A pound of commercially ground hamburger may contain the bacteria-laden tissues of THOUSANDS of animals.
Please don't feed that stuff (raw) to children or the elderly or anyone with a compromised immune system.
Eating raw steak is much safer than raw ground - do you realize the surface area that bacteria can attach themselves to on ground beef? That was just dumb. We DID discover fire, you know?