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- Missing the point! Bacteria is the most successful life form on this planet having survived the dinosaur and is undaunted today. By contact the worker is exposed, gets sick, goes to the ER. Sooner or later makes it to the OR suite from there to the rehab (nursing home). Then lil Johnny hugs Grandma and carries it home to sister Susie who carries it to daycare. Susie's playmate, Lil Leon suffering asthma and on prednisone dies 3 days later from a massive infection that did not respond to the antibiotic. The silver lining is the economic stimulus benefit for LIL BITTY COFFIN makers who dine on pork loin in the swankiest restaurant. ["P.S."] The recoil from this would be dwarfed compared to the following. PRODUCERS, some politician someplace is trying to figure out how to make his mark. And I am going to give it to him. PCR a test for MRSA. A law requiring testing at the packing house at the cost of the producer for MRSA to prevent it from infecting meat packing workers and preventing infected animals from entering the food chain. A positive test requires a hot brand to the left ear of the animal. The animal can only be processed with a certified test the animal is MRSA free. A third test verifying the cert. if that test is positive then the other ear is branded and the animal is prohibited for human consumption. Silk purse out of a sow's ear *LOL* and one eared pigs. Give it some thought the politician is. He doesnt even have to mention antibiotics. All he has to introduce is as a bill protecting the workers from a work place injury protecting the healthcare system from the burden of negligent employers. I hear jaws hiting the floor in Pennslyvania. Not to worry about proof, the DNA can be tracked back to the infected animal and the producer just in case the Federal Government had to foreclose on a judgement.
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- Thanks for bringing this to the attention of mainstream America. Europe is leaps and bounds ahead of the U.S. on food security and safety as it relates to antibiotics and genetically modified organisms/foods. Because of political pressure from large companies, the U.S. government has not required labeling, which is necessary to give full disclosure to the public. Interesting legal cases on being fought and won to require more research and disclosure. We would appreciate your reporting on these as well. Great job CBS!
www.truefoodnow.org/2010/01/15/supreme-court-to-hear-first-
genetically-engineered-crop-case; www.food.theatlantic.com/sustainability/farmers-win-in-dirty-rice-lawsuit.php; www.earthjustice.org/news/press/2009/court-finds-usda-
violated-federal-law-by-allowing-genetically-engineered-sugar-beets-on-the-market.html - Reply to this comment
- Q: Who would go to the Joe the plumber for a medical problem that is both complicated and beyond the scope of a 3 minute consulation? Then why does CBS newsanchor sunddenly become our physican, veterinarian and researcher for a day? Everybody needs their 15 minutes of fame, but the incorrect reporting of a multifactorial problem that has thousands more questions than any specific answers is just sensationalistic reporting and a black eye for CBS news!
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- As a farmer/rancher I raise beef cattle and the only time antiboitics are used on this farm are to treat an animal who needs it. This is done either via over the counter drugs or a prescribed plan from our local vet. Doses are strictly followed and the withdrawl time before sale is also watched, if the animal needs to be sold. Farmers and ranchers across the nation are very repsonsible and careful managers of their livestock.
A couple points to remember about agriculture in general, is that farmers make their living off the land and livestock and secondly feeding extra antibotics is also very expensive and they aren't used daily as part of the feed for healthy animals.
Lastly, as a farmer/rancher I breath the same air, drink the same water and consume the same products as everyone else and so I'm not going to sell a product I wouldn't feed my family or consume myslf. Food in this country is still the most affordable and healthiest of any country in the world. - Reply to this comment
- Please provide the research completed by Dr. Hearne to obtain the data which was analyzed to determine the facts you presented.
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- I agree CBS food health reports have been excellent lately, they blow the others out of the water IMO. I would like to see more depth though, like as to why CAMRSA (Community Acquired) staph infections verses nosocomial (hospital) MRSA infections are more pathogenic or virulent. One big AG claim is "we switch antibiotics frequently" well if there is something good to come out of that policy it might be a weakening of the community acquired staph pool. All bacterium excel at adaptation, since their reproductive time is so short -- 10 minutes for CAMRSA I believe, not sure about the other genotypes. So if an environmental staph picks up resistance to all known subject antibiotics will it not lose some virulence? I believe more research needs to be done, but since the bacteria's genetic code enables DNA --> RNA --> Protein carrying all that excess baggage code for antibiotic resistance(s) (think software bloat here) has to slow down its reproduction rate. This I would think would allow a healthy human's immune system a bit more time to counterstrike. It is documented that CAMRSA or staph can kill more quickly -- even in otherwise healthy humans.
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- Shame on you Katie Couric! Apparently this type of scare tactic is the only way for CBS to get any viewers. Is this an important subject.. Sure is, but I thought a good reporter was supposed to stay impartial and provide both sides of the story. For those of you people who are not aware, the Pork industry is already in trouble, and has been for over 2 years. When the media decided to incorrectly label the H1N1 influenza outbreak as the "swine flu", people were afraid to eat pork and sales plumeted. Combine the lack of sales, China's ban on imports, and raising input costs....producers are losing $30 per head. Producers are certified by each site, meaning a vet comes to inspect for adequate space, ventilation, heat, water, feed... and to insure that all medications are documented and appropriate slaughter withdrawl times are followed. Eating domestic pork doesn't scare me. What really frightens me, is the impact on the entire nation if this stupid story puts additonal pressure on an already fragile industry. Maybe Katie will put the newly unemployed up in her fancy appartment. Maybe she can write a fat check to States, Counties, Townships and School Districts that rely so heavily on the income and property taxes collected from our nations farmers and ranchers.
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- Everything now a days is processed. If you ever get the opportunity to dine with a farmer, I suggest you do so if they live off of their own land. None of that stuff is processed, it comes directly from the source, and people will say, "It's the best thing I've ever had."
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- This article suggests that perhaps Pasteur_s Germ Theory of Disease and Koch_s Postulates should be revisited.
The Germ Theory of Disease
http://www.flu-treatments.com/germ-theory-of-disease.html
Florence Nightingale wrote a criticism of this theory in 1860, which was 17 years before Pasteur adopted the germ theory of disease as if he first came up with it.
_The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no specific diseases; there are specific disease conditions_.
Today, we can add that the specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of Big Pharma, Big Agribusiness, and Big meat markets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic_resistance - Reply to this comment
- Missing the point! Bacteria is the most successful life form on this planet having survived the dinosaur and is undaunted today. By contact the worker is exposed, gets sick, goes to the ER. Sooner or later makes it to the OR suite from there to the rehab (nursing home). Then lil Johnny hugs Grandma and carries it home to sister Susie who carries it to daycare. Susie's playmate, Lil Leon suffering asthma and on prednisone dies 3 days later from a massive infection that did not respond to the antibiotic. The silver lining is the economic stimulus benefit for LIL BITTY COFFIN makers who dine on pork loin in the swankiest restaurant. ["P.S."] The recoil from this would be dwarfed compared to the following. PRODUCERS, some politician someplace is trying to figure out how to make his mark. And I am going to give it to him. PCR a test for MRSA. A law requiring testing at the packing house at the cost of the producer for MRSA to prevent it from infecting meat packing workers and preventing infected animals from entering the food chain. A positive test requires a hot brand to the left ear of the animal. The animal can only be processed with a certified test the animal is MRSA free. A third test verifying the cert. if that test is positive then the other ear is branded and the animal is prohibited for human consumption. Silk purse out of a sow's ear *LOL* and one eared pigs. Give it some thought the politician is. He doesnt even have to mention antibiotics. All he has to introduce is as a bill protecting the workers from a work place injury protecting the healthcare system from the burden of negligent employers. I hear jaws hiting the floor in Pennslyvania. Not to worry about proof, the DNA can be tracked back to the infected animal and the producer just in case the Federal Government had to foreclose on a judgement.
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