Antibiotics in Meat

Obama Campaign Stop at Factory Farm Propaganda Site, Billed as 'Grassroots Event'

Dave Murphy | Posted 05.25.2012

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Dave Murphy

By showing up at the Paul R. Knapp "Animal Learning Center," President Obama and his staff show that they are out of touch with the needs of rural Iowans and likely to continue to plow down their unsustainable path of supporting the industrial agribusiness lobby.

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Where Have All the Farms Gone?

Karen Steuer | Posted 05.27.2012

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Karen Steuer

Long gone are the iconic scenes of American landscapes dotted with family farms and red barns. Most of these have been replaced by industrialized facilities controlled by large corporations that rely on concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).

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Antibiotics in Your Food: What You Need To Know

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 04.24.2012

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Marcia G. Yerman

During the height of the cold weather months, people count on antibiotics to fight bacterial infections. What they may not know is that current overuse of antibiotics is making bacteria more rapidly resistant to "essential antibiotics."

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There's A 25% Chance Your Ground Meat Has A Potentially Fatal Bacteria

Posted 12.29.2011

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Mark Bittman has yet another fascinating column in the New York Times, this time on the prevalence of bacteria in meat. He discusses a study that anal...

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Stopping Superbugs: Time for Congress and Industry to Catch Up With American Consumers

David Wallinga, M.D. | Posted 02.15.2012

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David Wallinga, M.D.

Today, American farmers raising animals without antibiotics do so despite policies that point them in the opposite direction. With this handicap, who will win out in the race to feed the global consumer who increasingly wants their meat antibiotic free?

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Organic Farms Have Less Drug-Resistant Bacteria

Posted 10.11.2011

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A new study of chicken farms confirms a long-suspected benefit of organic agriculture: it fights the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. For year...

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Cargill's Tainted Turkey: Just the Tip of the Iceberg?

Andrew Gunther | Posted 10.05.2011

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Andrew Gunther

My concern is that this outbreak is yet another stark warning that we are on the verge of a world where antibiotics will no longer work, and where common bacterial diseases will once again kill unabated.

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Catherine Pearson

Super Bacteria? Fighting Resistance Could Be Trickier Than Thought

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 09.27.2011

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A process thought to hamper antibiotic resistant bacteria, one of the world's most pressing public health problems, might actually make them stronger,...

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Still No Regulation to Keep Poisons Off Our Plate

Andrew Gunther | Posted 08.16.2011

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Andrew Gunther

Most of the rest of the world recognizes that adding a known poison to something you are going to eat is not a great idea. For example arsenic is prohibited from being added to any animal feed in Europe.

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Montana, Could Your Congressman's Actions Someday Make Your Child Sick?

Laurie David | Posted 08.08.2011

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Laurie David

Why should parents take more chances of their children getting sick because we are squandering their best medicines to fatten animals faster? Is this really what Montanans elected their sole congressman to do?

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Healthy Animals Need Antibiotics: Baloney

Wendy Gordon | Posted 08.07.2011

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Wendy Gordon

If you want to help keep antibiotics working for your kids or your parents or for anyone you know who gets sick, make sure your next ham sandwich is made with meat from a farm that does not feed antibiotics to healthy animals.

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Fueling Resistance: Rx. for Trouble

David Wallinga, M.D. | Posted 08.06.2011

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David Wallinga, M.D.

Some producers fermenting corn into ethanol add human antibiotics to their fermentation tanks. Why? To control bacteria in the tanks, which can reduce their yields if they get out of control.

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How Decades Of Farm Animal Antibiotics Led To Deadly Superbugs

Grist |  Barry Estabrook | Posted 08.03.2011

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... Even though Levy had added only tetracycline to the feed, his chickens had somehow developed what scientists now call "multi-drug resistance" to a...

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The High Cost Of Cheap Meat

The New York Times | Posted 08.03.2011

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The point of factory farming is cheap meat, made possible by confining large numbers of animals in small spaces. Perhaps the greatest hidden cost is i...

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Groups Sue FDA for Putting Pigs Before People

Laurie David | Posted 07.26.2011

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Laurie David

Force-feeding prescription drugs to healthy people, just to make them grow faster, would be considered ludicrous by any doctor. Possibly even criminal. But the FDA allows factory farms to essentially to just that.

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Wake Up, Secretary Vilsack

Laurie David | Posted 07.09.2011

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Laurie David

Knowing Secretary Tom Vilsack's passion for helping the people who live in rural communities, there is no larger issue for him to focus his attention on than protecting those communities from antibiotic-resistant bacteria sourced from food animals.

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This Is the Game Changer!

Laurie David | Posted 06.18.2011

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Laurie David

It's hard to shock me, but when I read the report on Friday that almost half of the meat and poultry we're buying at our local grocery stores is contaminated with Staph bacteria, I had to let out a scream of frustration.

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CAFO Debates Escalate

Slashfood | Clare Leschin | Posted 06.01.2011

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It's a particularly tense debate being played out in rural communities across the country, but most recently at a heated meeting in Knox County, Misso...

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Your Holiday Ham -- Raised on Suffering, Salmonella and Drugs?

David Kirby | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Kirby

Pig producers who sell meat to Russia must wean their animals off antibiotics at least two weeks prior to slaughter. Japan requires a four-week flush-out period. This begs the question, what do the Russians and Japanese know about meat that we don't?

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How Worried Should You Be About the Antibiotics In Your Meat?

EatingWell | Posted 05.25.2011

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EatingWell

Choosing meat and dairy labeled "USDA organic" or "certified humane" ensures you're buying products raised without antibiotics.

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Ezra Klein: Just Say No to Antibacterial Burgers

washingtonpost.com | Ezra Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

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When you give antibiotics to animals meant to become food, however, you're ensuring that antibiotics end up in the food in low but constant doses. Tha...

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