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How Using Antibiotics In Animal Feed Creates Superbugs : The Salt : NPR - 0 views

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  • 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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Scientist Cooks Up a Meatless Product for Meat Lovers | LiveScience - 0 views

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  • "What you first need is a gateway drug for people to realize that all the things they love can be satisfied by plants," Brown said.
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About Pigs Bladder Football - 0 views

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  • pepa garcía on 17 Feb 12
     
    les dan becas y premios por hacer arte con técnicas biológicas. Es ponerte a reflexionar? O somos directamente nazis?
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Food Project Proposes Matrix-Style Vertical Chicken Farms | Underwire | Wired.com - 0 views

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  • Ford believes that the Headless Chicken Solution has the same intentions as the lab-grown meats we have seen developed recently. “The intentions are the same — the synthesis of animal protein without the suffering,” he says.
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McDonald's Moving to End Gestation Crates - Wayne Pacelle: A Humane Nation - 0 views

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  • is the latest acknowledgement from food sellers that extreme confinement practices have to go.
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