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ANTIBIOTICS IN MEAT. This is the topic of the next series of blogs, with a continued emphasis on the use for poultry, where the US justification for chlorine baths and the resulting risk of carcinogenic byproducts, is that it sterilizes the meat. This is another sticking point in US/EC trade talks. View in LinkedIn

AT THE RETIREMENT PARTY for two Cambridge University Professors, J Paul Luzio PhD, and Kenneth Siddle PhD, who have worked together for 45 years since undergraduates at Cambridge, and served together with late Nick Hales MD PhD; this group had worked and trained with all the greats in biochemistry, their retirement is the end of an era, and immense influence on hundreds of scientists. View in LinkedIn

"FOOD IS EVERYTHING" is the tag line for the staff cafeteria at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute at Cambridge University (Addenbrooke's Hospital). The have organically certified meat (www.redtractor.org.uk), fruit and vegetables (www.leafuk.org), fish (www.msc.org) and coffee (www.coffeeworld.org). A long way from 28 years ago with appalling hospital food. View in LinkedIn

"FARMAGEDDON is a fascinating and terrifying investigative journey behind the closed doors of a runaway industry across the world - from the UK, Europe and the USA, to China, Argentina, Peru and Mexico. It is both a wake-up call to change our current food production and eating practices and an attempt to find a way to a better farming future." http://lnkd.in/djexzJ8 View in LinkedIn

COWS FED CHICKEN LITTER. "Chicken litter, a rendered down mix of chicken manure, dead chickens, feathers and spilled feed, is marketed as a cheap feed product for cows. The beef industry likes it because it's even cheaper than corn and soy, so an estimated 2 BILLION pounds are purchased each year in the US." http://lnkd.in/dQReGiz View in LinkedIn

INDUSTRIAL MEAT FARMS feed their animals with surprising things, including chicken feathers, which happen to accumulate a lot of pesticides and drugs used in their care. Self-governance by the meat industry is simply not working, and is reminiscent of Upton Sinclair's 1906 book, The Jungle. http://lnkd.in/dgG7vFQ View in LinkedIn

THE END OF ANTIBIOTICS. "An increasing number of governments around the world are devoting efforts to a problem so serious that it threatens the achievements of modern medicine. A post-antibiotic era – in which common infections and minor injuries can kill – far from being an apocalyptic fantasy, is instead a very real possibility for the 21st Century." http://lnkd.in/dTHjPrF View in LinkedIn

CORRODED PIPES. "Application of 200 ppm chlorine appears to reduce bacteria substantially on poultry carcasses ... eradicated from turkey carcasses by treatment with 300-400ppm of chlorine but not by 50ppm ... if it is mixed with water at excessively high concentrations (upwards of 30 ppm), it will begin to corrode stainless steel and other materials used for pipe joins and valves." http://www.ukmeat.org/FSAMeat/PoultryWash.htm View in LinkedIn

"BEFORE ANTIBIOTICS, five women died out of every 1,000 who gave birth. One out of nine people who got a skin infection died, even from something as simple as a scrape or an insect bite. Three out of ten people who contracted pneumonia died from it." https://medium.com/@fernnews/imagining-the-post-antibiotics-future-892b57499e77 View in LinkedIn

THE US/EC DISPUTE on poultry pathogen reduction methods. The US and EU maintain widely divergent views on poultry agriculture and food processing, that can be summarized simply. The US regulators are pro-business, while EU regulators are tasked to protect the public and the environment. http://lnkd.in/dDNXGuP View in LinkedIn