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Guido Girardi presentará recurso contra Agrosuper por traslado de cerdos desd... - 0 views

  • faenación de cerdos en la zona han afectado la calidad de vida contaminando las aguas del sector y produciendo escases de recursos hídricos para los campesinos de la zona
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How Using Antibiotics In Animal Feed Creates Superbugs : The Salt : NPR - 0 views

  • antibiotics in livestock feed give rise to antibiotic-resistant germs that can threaten humans.
  • an antibiotic-susceptible staph germ passed from humans into pigs
  • it became resistant to the antibiotics tetracycline and methicillin
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  • And then the antibiotic-resistant staph learned to jump back into humans.
  • "It's like watching the birth of a superbu
  • whole-genome analysis on a staph strain called CC398 and 88 closely related variations.
  • emerged within the past decade in pigs and has since spread widely in cattle and poultry as well as pigs.
  • the animal bacterium jumped back into humans with close exposure to livestock.
  • This "pig MRSA" has been detected in nearly half of all meat sampled in U.S. commerce
  • we think it may be changing gears, so to speak, and gaining the capacity to be passed from person to person.
  • Price says the new data provide an early warning of what might become a major public health problem.
  • in some areas of the Netherlands, it's causing as many as 1 in 4 human MRSA cases
  • "our inappropriate use of antibiotics ... is now coming back to haunt us."
  • the solution is clear — banning antibiotics in livestock feed, as the European Union has done.
  • Most antibiotics sold in the U.S. go to animals, mostly in their feed, where they act as a growth promoter and damp down infection outbreaks in large feedlots.
  • It said it would focus instead on "voluntary reform" by the meat industry to limit use.
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Livestock industry wins Supreme Court appeal - CNN.com - 0 views

  • The Obama administration sided with pork producers, a move criticized by a number of animal rights groups.
  • Pork producers in their legal brief estimated that about 3% of swine are non-ambulatory when they arrive at the slaughterhouse.
  • The meat industry argued being forced to immediately euthanize all downed animals would hurt its ability to detect and fight one particularly virulent disease: foot-and-mouth, which is highly contagious.
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