Viral Meat Spray
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2012-06-14

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DESCRIPTION: Bacteria-eating viruses (bacteriophages) have been approved as meat additives to reduce the risk of Listeria and Campylobacter found in processed meat and poultry products, but there is a concern they could spread toxin genes between bacteria. For more about leading food poisoning causes of death #1 and #2 see Total Recall (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/total-recall/) and Brain Parasites in Meat (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/brain-parasites-in-meat/). For videos on other risks associated with processed meat consumption, see Preventing COPD with Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-copd-with-diet/), Prevention Is Better Than Cured Meat (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/prevention-is-better-than-cured-meat/), and Hot Dogs & Leukemia (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/hot-dogs-leukemia/). In my book Bird Flu (http://birdflubook.com/g.php?id=5) I have a chapter about these creative meat industry "technofixes" (rectal poultry superglue anyone? (http://birdflubook.com/a.php?id=52)). For videos on other chicken feed additives of questionable safety, see Arsenic in Chicken (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/arsenic-in-chicken/) and Drug Residues in Meat (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/drug-residues-in-meat/), and for what Campylobacter can do, Poultry and Paralysis (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/poultry-and-paralysis/). Please also feel free to check out any of the other 1,000+ thousand topics (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/), and if you didn't like the thought of the meat industry spreading viruses on your food, tomorrow's video is entitled [Maggot Meat Spray].

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Image Credit: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; USDA; and John Jonik.

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