Test tube meat

Besides this, CAFOs continually feed antibiotics to livestock just to make them grow more quickly. This is a perfect recipe for inducing antibiotic resistance. From the National Institutes of Health: http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=info:doi/10.1289/ehp.8837 "The industrialization of livestock production and the widespread use of nontherapeutic antimicrobial growth promotants has intensified the risk for the emergence of new, more virulent, or more resistant microorganisms. These have reduced the effectiveness of several classes of antibiotics for treating infections in humans and livestock. Recent outbreaks of virulent strains of influenza have arisen from swine and poultry raised in close proximity." From the journal "Clinical Infectious Diseases" http://bit.ly/hWl6Dv "Staphylococcus aureus is among the most prevalent causes of clinical infections globally and has garnered substantial public attention due to increasing mortality associated with multidrug resistance...In the current study, we evaluated the prevalence and antibiotic susceptibility profiles of S. aureus in retail meat and poultry samples from 5 US cities. We found that S. aureus contamination was common..." Pharmaceutical companies turned away from developing new antibiotics decades ago, so if a deadly new resistant infection breaks out, we may be out of tools to fight it. That's how CAFOs threaten human lives. Yet with today's technology, CAFOs are currently necessary to sustain meat consumption at the current level of demand. Kudos to those who are working to find alternatives!

And you know what's screwing the environment? Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, or CAFOs. According to the EPA http://www.epa.gov/region07/water/cafo/cafo_impact_environment.htm: "Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) are facilities where large numbers of poultry, swine, cattle or other animal types are confined within a much smaller area than traditional pasture operations. The concentration of the wastes from these animals increases the potential to impact air, water, and land quality. "Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) are facilities where large numbers of poultry, swine, cattle or other animal types are confined within a much smaller area than traditional pasture operations. The concentration of the wastes from these animals increases the potential to impact air, water, and land quality." In their 2006 report, "Livestock's Long Shadow" http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.HTM the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations said "Overall, livestock activities contribute an estimated 18 percent to total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions," among several other kinds of environmental impact.

You know what's gross? See _Eating Animals_ http://amzn.to/xMPuDp p. 88:'Journalist Scott Bronstein wrote a remarkable series for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about poultry inspection, which should be required reading for anyone considering eating chicken. He conducted interviews with nearly a hundred USDA poultry inspectors from thirty-seven plants. "Every week," he reports, "millions of chickens leaking yellow pus, stained by green feces, contaminated by harmful bacteria, or marred by lung and heart infections, cancerous tumors, or skin conditions are shipped for sale to consumers.'Next the chickens go to a massively refrigerated tank of water, where thousands of birds are communally cooled. Tom Devine, from the Government Accountability Project, has said that the "water in these tanks has been aptly named 'fecal soup' for all the filth and bacteria floating around. By immersing clean, healthy birds in the same tank with dirty ones, you're practically assuring cross-contamination." 'That's what's gross.

new tag line for peta:
animal rights at all costs, screw the environment

Holy crap. Talk about soylent green. This is the kind of food we'll be eating in the distant future, when we're not able to grow/raise real food on this planet anymore.

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