Meat - An Avalanche of Problems

From European Vegetarian and Animal News Alliance (EVANA), June 2011

HEALTH

• Escherichia coli outbreak in Germany: Shiga toxin-Producing Escherichia coli (STEC)
• Tthis STEC outbreak is one of the largest described outbreaks of STEC/HUS worldwide and the largest ever reported in Germany.
• Prevalence and pathogenicity of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in beef cattle and their products.
• Meat - BSE - Superbug -- Latest headlines put spotlight on dangerous and unwanted ingredients in meat.
• Superbug Suit: Groups Sue FDA Over Risky Use of Human Antibiotics in Animal Feed.
• Meat and bowel cancer...experts recommend to cut down on beef, pork and lamb, and to avoid processed meats like bacon, ham, salami, and corned beef altogether.
• PCRM's Dr. Barnard: "Processed meat is so strongly linked with colorectal cancer that no one should ever eat it."
• Is the West exporting breast cancer to China?
  
  

(TRICKS OF) THE TRADE

• USA: Just imagine 1.4 million gallons of water from chicken farm leaking into drinking water system! Daily!
• Vegetarians, do you still have the guts to look at meat pictures? If so, you can learn how meat is being manipulated these days.
• Soon factory farms for creepy-crawlies? The beetle-crunch-lunch at the drive-in? -- If FAO experts, who evidently have never heard of the benefits of vegetarianism, have their way, tomorrow we'll all be munching roasted creatures with six legs. … Bon appetit!
• PCRM: Taxing America’s Health: Subsidies for Meat and Dairy Products.
• FAO and Max Planck Institute take on species-swapping diseases -- Focus on interactions between wild animals, livestock, and human populations to reduce risks, strengthen responses.
  

HUMAN SOLIDARITY?

Richard Schwartz (Jewish Vegetarians of North America): "At a time when almost a billion of the world’s people are chronically hungry, 70% of the grain produced in the US is fed to animals destined for slaughter."