Meat - An Avalanche of Problems
Food Hazards in Animal Flesh and By-products from All-Creatures.org Vegan Health Articles
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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."
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