Comments on: Some MRSA with your BLT? Drug-Resistant Staph in U.S. Pigs, Workers

By: Civil Eats » Blog Archive » Will Obama’s Food Safety Working Group Address MRSA and the Deeper Issues Facing the Food System?

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:07:53 +0000

[...] suggests that 25 percent to 39 percent of American hogs carry the bug. (Naomi Starkman reported on the correlation between MRSA and pigs on Civil Eats in January) And as Kristoff wrote in his first column on pathogens at factory farms [...]

By: New publication: MRSA in US swine « Emergence

New publication: MRSA in US swine « Emergence — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:47:38 +0000

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By: CAFOs HARBOR MRSA SUPERBUG « Berry Street Beacon

CAFOs HARBOR MRSA SUPERBUG « Berry Street Beacon — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 01:39:21 +0000

[...] and the more antibiotics consumed, the better the bug gets at retooling itself to survive. Now MRSA has been found thriving in swine CAFOs. Factory farming operations confine a large number of animals to relatively small areas. These [...]

By: Factory farms are an enemy of life « Later On

Factory farms are an enemy of life « Later On — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:18:19 +0000

[...] comes word that MRSA has been detected on factory farms themselves — in particular, on pig farms in the Midwest. Eat pork from these farms, in other [...]

By: Maryn

Maryn — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:51:26 +0000

There's a long archive on MRSA in food animals, animal handlers and retail meat here: Superbug.

By: Meet your Meat Label

Meet your Meat Label — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:03:51 +0000

[...] The meat industry in particular has been discovered to be a leading cause of global warming, a potential source for MRSA infection, which kills thousands of people a year, and a place of enormous animal cruelty. Exposés of the [...]

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:31:53 +0000

The poultry industry also has been shown to help transmit antibiotic-resistant bacteria into the public sphere. Just over a year ago, I wrote at the Ethicurean about several publications about the intersection between drug-resistant microbes and food, including a peer-reviewed study in Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP). The EHP study showed that poultry workers could bring drug-resistant E. coli home from work -- often in their work clothes, which they washed at home (this seems like a terrible practice for both worker and company -- not only does it bring germs home, but it might bring germs to the poultry facility).

By: News Feed

News Feed — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:33:57 +0000

[...] in swine and workers Naomi Starkman reports on the recent University of Iowa study that found the drug-resistant strain of staph in pigs and workers in Iowa pork [...]

By: Another Reason to Go Local at Chiot’s Run

Another Reason to Go Local at Chiot’s Run — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:06:05 +0000

[...] beef and chicken from my local farm are not filled with hormones, chemicals, antibiotics and other weird stuff. Daphne Miller, MD is a family physician and associate professor at the University of California [...]

By: Chiot's Run

Chiot's Run — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:27:25 +0000

Yet another reason to buy local pastured protein!!!