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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

AS SERIOUS AS TERRORISM. "The chief medical officer of the United Kingdom, Dame Sally Davies — who calls antibiotic resistance as serious a threat as terrorism — recently published a book in which she imagines what might come next. She sketches a world where infection is so dangerous that anyone with even minor symptoms would be locked in confinement until they recover or die." https://medium.com/@fernnews/imagining-the-post-antibiotics-future-892b57499e77 View in LinkedIn

FINAL CHICKEN CARCASS WASH. "In addition, since 2004 an EU regulation (835/EC) requires meat products to be washed using potable water..." Not super-chlorinated water. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-203477048.html View in LinkedIn

NO NEW NEWS. "As antibiotics became more affordable and their use increased, bacteria developed defenses more quickly. Methicillin arrived in 1960 and methicillin resistance in 1962; levofloxacin in 1996 and the first resistant cases the same year; linezolid in 2000 and resistance to it in 2001; daptomycin in 2003 and the first signs of resistance in 2004." https://medium.com/@fernnews/imagining-the-post-antibiotics-future-892b57499e77 View in LinkedIn

"CONSUMER RESEARCH in European countries such as the UK, Finland, and Denmark, show the overwhelming majority of consumers have no appetite for chicken washed in chemicals." http://www.beuc.eu/blog/what-is-wrong-with-chlorinated-chicken/ View in LinkedIn