66% of Chickens Have Dangerous Bugs

01Dec09

About 66% of chickens tested by Consumer Reports still had dangerous bacteria. The take home message: governments still aren’t doing a good enough job and people have to stay sharp and careful with factory farmed food. You’ve got to cook to at least 165 F (74 C) and you have to prevent raw chicken or its juices from touching any other food.

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Tags: antibiotics, campylobacter, CDC, centralization, chickens, disease, factory farming, Food Safety, hospitalization, poultry, salmonella

Killing Ants with Jack Hammers? Biotech’s Failure

12Jul09

Sunny talks about how biotechnology and pesticides are band aids that don’t deal with the root problem – the health of the plant and the environment while genetic engineering expert Doug Gurian-Sherman says that biotechnology can’t possibly feed the world for the same reasons indirectly.

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Tags: biotechnology, factory farming, genes, genetic engineering, genetically modified organisms, GMOs, healthcare, LMOs

Killer Bugs in Our Pork

20May09

We don’t put antibiotic drugs in baby food or cereal and yet agribusiness keeps giving them to healthy animals. Now we’re creating superbugs that our drugs can’t kill.

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Tags: antibiotics, factory farming, hog farms, industrial agriculture, MRSA, pathogens, pathology, pig, pork, resistant, staph, swine flu, virology, viruses

The Real Deal: Who Created Swine Flu…

17May09

Fingers are pointing to our current system of agriculture for the outbreak of swine flu (H1N1). When you decide to cram a lot of pigs together you’re creating a perfect place for disease to grow and thrive. In particular, some fingers are pointing towards a massive pig farm run by Smithfield Corporation.

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Tags: Agriculture, disease, factory farming, farming, flu, H1N1, industrial agriculture, pig, swine flu

Swine Flu Kills 68 Lightning Fast

25Apr09

The Mexican Outbreak of Swine Flu has killed 68 people and sickened over 1000. Experts are saying it’s only a matter of time before a huge pandemic will break out – similar to the Spanish Flu virus of 1918 that killed 40-50 million people worldwide. Surprisingly no one talks about its links to factory farming or cramming animals in tight spaces so you can cook up something like this. This is another example of how dangerous our broken food system has become.

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Tags: avian flu, CDC, centre for disease control, disease, dna, factory farming, Food, Food Safety, food system, genetic, health, hospital, influenza, Medicine, mexico, organization, outbreak, pandemic, SARS, spanish, swine flu, vaccine, WHO, world