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kalikshama -> RE: When Food Kills (6/13/2011 4:46:08 AM)
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Good article. Corporations typically pass these hidden costs to society. I'd rather (and do) pay more upfront for meat that was raised without these shortcuts.
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Every year in the United States, 325,000 people are hospitalized because of food-borne illnesses and 5,000 die, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s right: food kills one person every two hours.
Yet while the terrorist attacks of 2001 led us to transform the way we approach national security, the deaths of almost twice as many people annually have still not generated basic food-safety initiatives. We have an industrial farming system that is a marvel for producing cheap food, but its lobbyists block initiatives to make food safer.
Perhaps the most disgraceful aspect of our agricultural system — I say this as an Oregon farmboy who once raised sheep, cattle and hogs — is the way antibiotics are recklessly stuffed into healthy animals to make them grow faster.
The chicken, beef, and pig sold at Whole Foods was not given antibiotics: http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/pdfs/5-StepAnimalWelfareRating.pdf
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