This is SCARY!! "Antibiotics in Livestock Fuel Debate Over Hazardous Meat and Poultry"

[in_cog_ni_to]

Now the meats we get may be diseased because the antibiotics are the SAME ONES WE USE and the bacteria has become resistant to them. :scared:

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But preventive health measures don’t guarantee safe food, according to environmental health scientist Ellen Silbergeld, who told News21 that thousands of ranchers like Vittetoe have “squandered the use of antibiotics” by feeding and injecting healthy cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys with the same drugs used to cure human infections.

The result is bacteria that can no longer be killed by antibiotics and are still present in animals when they go to slaughter, said Silbergeld, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The bacteria end up in consumer meat products sold at grocery stores across the country.

The journal Clinical Infectious Diseases reported this year that nearly half of all beef, pork, chicken and turkey purchased from 26 retail stores in Chicago, Washington, D.C., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Los Angeles and Flagstaff, Ariz., contained drug-resistant bacteria. While thorough cooking may kill even resistant pathogens, Silbergeld said the risk of infection from cross-contamination is too high when handling raw meat and poultry.

“Antibiotic resistance is an immediate health risk,” she said. “This is the thing that will kill you.”<snip>

MUCH MORE at link:

http://www.nationofchange.org/antibiotics-livestock-fuel-debate-over-hazardous-meat-and-poultry-1317656255

[Bloke 32]

1. How much of your food is "bioengineered?"

Over here, it is well over fifty percent.

[SpiralHawk]

3. The Genetically Mutant food in the USA is Occult (R)

No labels. No one who wants mutant food can pick it out. No one who wants to avoid it can pick it out.

Genetically Mutant corporate industrial food (R) is occult.

[Horse with no Name]

9. I think you might be wrong

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_trade_of_genetically_modified_foods

But would love a new link showing what you say is true.

[prairierose]

2. This is one of the many reasons that industrial agriculture is...

bad for all of us. Visit your local farmer's market and forge a relationship with a family farmer in your area. There are few left out there but you should be able to find one.

[MoonRiver]

4. So glad I've been a vegetarian for the last 18 years.

Would never, ever touch much less eat that shit.

[leftyohiolib]

7. Calif. Lettuce Recall Covers 19 States, Canada.listeria contamination

yep being a vegetarian is completely safe (op posted by ohiochick)

[MoonRiver]

10. It narrows the odds in one's favor.

[auburngrad82]

5. Read the New Food Revolution by John Robbins

It will scare you into not eating. Anything. Seriously, it's a great expose on industrial farming.

[WhiteTara]

6. this is and has been an ongoing problem.

Answer is not to eat commercial meat...like that's possible for most people.

[MadHound]

8. If you have a large freezer, buy your meat in bulk

Get out into the country, find a family farmer who is raising organic, grass fed beef and buy a quarter, half or whole cow. Healthier, tastier and cheaper.

[flvegan]

11. One could always, I don't know, choose not to eat that crap.

If you must eat meat, if at all possible, find a farm that doesn't practice this sort of shit.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

12. k&r