The product is "so covered in bacteria that researchers at the University of Arizona found more fecal bacteria in the kitchen -- on sponges and dish towels, and in the sink drain -- than they found swabbing the toilet." Thank God, one of nation's top producers of "lean, finely textured beef" (a.k.a. Pink Slime!) went bankrupt.
Actually, that first line wasn't talking about pink slime, which some say is actually safer than untreated ground beef according to food safety advocates. That line was talking about a much bigger safety threat: White Slime (a.k.a. chicken).
Mark Bittman, reflecting on chicken in the New York Times noted: "Bill Marler, a leading food safety lawyer, told me he assumes that 'almost all chicken and turkey produced in the U.S. is tainted with a bacteria that can kill you.'" That's a fair assumption: According to Consumer Reports, "two-thirds [of store-bought chickens] harbored salmonella and/or campylobacter, the leading bacterial causes of foodborne disease." As Men's Health magazine colorfully notes: "It's a wonder broilers don't come with barf bags."
Public health expert Dr. Michael Greger offers this more graphic description, which I tagged in my opening line:
Chicken carcasses are so covered in bacteria that researchers at the University of Arizona found more fecal bacteria in the kitchen -- on sponges and dish towels, and in the sink drain -- than they found swabbing the toilet. In a meat-eater's house it may be safer to lick the rim of the toilet seat than the kitchen countertop, because people aren't preparing chickens in their toilets. Chicken 'juice' is essentially raw fecal soup.
Within 12 to 72 hours of infection the fever, diarrhea, and abdominal cramps start. If the victim is lucky it's over within a week. If not, the bacteria can burrow through the intestinal wall and infect the bloodstream, seeding its way to other organs, including the heart, bones, and brain... Salmonella kills more Americans than any other food borne illness.
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The bottom line people is, it is the margin in the ledger, profits profits profits. It has nothing to do with your health. Cruelty to animals, eating animal flesh (animal flesh is not meat, historically changed) shows how barbaric and cruel we are as a society. The status quo to keep the money mongering evil continuing, filling your heads with poisoned flesh of animals to skew your thinking without common sense and rational.
If you were raised to eat people, you'd feel the same way as we do with eating the flesh of animals. Culture, how we are raised, instills what our belief systems are. China, it is ok to eat cats and dogs, to boil them alive, skin them alive; to cause them as much pain as possible before death because of their belief systems. The difference in America is, we do it mostly behind closed doors,... Asia, they do it out in the open.
Go vegan people, avoid the risk of your health becoming impaired. The cruelty stops, the illness stops, the clarity begins, all, with what you put on your plate. Changing what you put on your plate to eat, changes the health of yourself, animals and the planet... for the better.
Of course, if you object to eating meat and slaughtering animals all together, that doesn't matter, but for someone more on the fence, like me, it's worth making the distinction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMF5ZW2QvYg
show the kids that there is less bacteria in the bathroom than most other places to scare them into washing their hands
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