We're trying to kill us..!

[Bigmack]

http://www.alternet.org/health/153908

The Scary Danger of Meat (Even For Those Who Don't Eat It)
The government has rolled over once again for Big Meat and we may be in more danger from antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
January 30, 2012

So far, 2012 is bringing bad news for people who don't want "free antibiotics" in their food.

Antibiotics are routinely given to livestock on factory farms to make them gain weight with less feed and keep them from getting sick in confinement conditions. But the daily dosing, at the same time it lowers feed needs, lowers drug effectiveness and produces antibiotic resistant bacteria or super bugs that can be deadly to people.

This month, researchers found 230 out of 395 pork cuts bought in US stores were contaminated with a super bug called MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). Worse--there were "no statistically significant differences" between "conventionally raised swine and swine raised without antibiotics," reported the researchers.

[HopeHoops]

1. MRSA is pretty nasty.

[Critters2]

2. One of my parishioners died of it. He was hospitalized for pneumonia.

On the day he was to be moved out of ICU, to a med/surg unit, he suddenly spiked a fever and died in a couple of hours. Cause of death--MRSA. If one's immune system is weakened at all, even by a normal bacteria or virus, MRSA swoops in and wreaks havoc.

[HopeHoops]

3. It's also easily transmitted.

[sce56]

4. Especialy in Hospitals My siters father inlaw died from it after having been

hospitilaized for complications of diabetes. In the hospital the MRSA virus spreads around and kills the already weakened victims.

[Dreamer Tatum]

5. "The government has rolled over once again for Big Meat"

Heeheeheeheeheehee

[Bigmack]

6. I had the same thought. Big Meat is behind us all the way.. I've felt them there. nt

[Dreamer Tatum]

7. When big meat stiffens its resolve, it is compelling. nt