MRSA Superbugs in Meat
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2014-09-05

The emergence of pathogens resistant to even our antibiotics of last resort has raised the specter of a “post-antibiotic age” in which drugs to fight infections may be useless. This has focused attention on the mass use of antibiotics in farm animal feed to promote growth and prevent infection in high density production.

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I know I’ve already covered this before, but it continues to shock me that the meat industry can get away with something so forcefully and universally condemned by the public health community. What other industrial sector could get away with putting people at such risk? It speaks to the combined might of the livestock industry and the pharmaceutical industry in holding sway over our democratic process no matter what the human health consequences. 

If you’ve missed my other MRSA videos, check out:
• Toxic Megacolon Superbug (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/toxic-megacolon-superbug/)
• Airborne MRSA (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/airborne-mrsa/)
• MRSA in U.S. Retail Meat (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/mrsa-in-u-s-retail-meat/)

And for more on this critical issue in general:
• Lowering Dietary Antibiotic Intake (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/lowering-dietary-antibiotic-intake/)
• More Antibiotics in White Meat or Dark Meat? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/more-antibiotics-in-white-meat-or-dark-meat/)
• Meat Mythcrushers (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/meat-mythcrushers/)
• Food Poisoning Bacteria Cross-Contamination (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/food-poisoning-bacteria-cross-contamination/)
• Unsafe at Any Feed (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/unsafe-at-any-feed/)
• Past the Age of Miracles: Facing a Post-Antibiotic Age (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/past-the-age-of-miracles-facing-a-post-antibiotic-age/)
• Superbugs in Conventional vs. Organic Chicken (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/superbugs-in-conventional-vs-organic-chicken/)

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