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DarlingSavage -> RE: FDA recalls some snack foods (3/6/2010 8:28:27 AM)
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Salmonella, a disease normally contracted from animal food products. How did it get in a vegetable based item? Because the waste taken from CAFOs as part of BMPs, is used as fertilizer on crops. There was a similar incident of people contracting E. coli from packaged spinach. They believe that the plants had managed to take the disease up into the root system and that was why people contracted the disease whether they washed their spinach or not. Because animals are kept in such highly unsanitary conditions in these facilities, they are excellent breeding grounds for pathogens. Also attributable to the inhumane and unsanitary state of these facilities is the overuse of antibiotics. Thanks to the food animal production industry, we are now losing the use of antibiotics which are important to human health. When these antibiotics are flooded into the environment as they are, the pathogens that they are intended to combat become immune to them.
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