posted on 2009-12-15 by JPerez
Most of us won't bother to understand why we need to be concerned about the application of antibiotics by the conventional meat producers. We've learned in the past that what we eat will come back in haunt us. Well, the processed chemicals in our meats have already been doing a large amount of health damages amongst the meat-eating population including the young generation and more to come.

We're still keeping a deaf ear on this matter for no apparent reason other than the lack of understanding or the willingness to be obligated enough to find out what really is going on with our food system.

Our biggest concern now is when will the big ball drop. This is the time when it's too late for a lot of us who didn't take the moment to understand the risks and the potential health hazards of what's being done or not done to protect and secure the public's health from the danger of the current industrial food system.

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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria thrives in CAFO pork, and Wall Street gobbles up Big Meat shares
Posted by Tom Philpott at 10:33 AM on 23 Mar 2008

In Meat Wagon, we round up the latest outrages from the meat industry.

Back in December, Michael Pollan wrote a important article about the antibiotic resistant bacteria MSRA, which Pollan decsribed like this:
... the very scary antibiotic-resistant strain of Staphylococcus bacteria that is now killing more Americans each year than AIDS -- 100,000 infections leading to 19,000 deaths in 2005, according to estimates in The Journal of the American Medical Association. Pollan writes that such strains have been around for a while, emanating from hospitals, where our medical experts quixotically drench patients with antibiotics, inevitably incubating resistant  -- and virulent, for us non-antibiotic users -- bacterial strains.

Now, Pollan reports, "a new and even more virulent strain -- called 'community-acquired MRSA'-- is ... killing young and otherwise healthy people who have not set foot in a hospital." Evidence is mounting that the source is that other great center of antibiotic reliance: theconcentrated-animal feedlot operation, or CAFO. In CAFOs, conditions are so wretched that operators drench animals with antibiotics as a matter of course -- the unfortunate beasts' immune systems are so compromised that they'd likely die otherwise. Pollan's article points to mounting evidence of an MRSA/CAFO link; this edition of Meat Wagon brings you one more. From the Canadian Standard: Canadian researchers have found antibiotic-resistant Staph bacteria in pork products purchased in retail stores across the country -- a discovery that raises questions about how the contamination occurred, how frequently it happens, and whether it has implications for human health.

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