Remember when_____

[LifeHiscost]

____it was considered to be somewhat fanatic if a person practiced eating sans flesh foods. Wonder if her counsel at that time is much more appropriate in the day in which we live.

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US Meat Contaminated with Deadly Superbug

Looks like the USDA’s chickens have finally come home to roost.

Nearly half (47%) of all samples of meat and poultry taken from supermarkets across the US reveal contamination from Staphylococcus aureus bacteria.

Staph is bad enough (causing food poisoning and skin infections), but nearly half of the staph bacteria discovered on these meat products is a nasty antibiotic-resistant type known as MRSA (Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus).

MRSA is running wild in US hospitals

Currently doctors are powerless to stop or easily treat it.

The reason MRSA is so difficult is because it has morphed beyond antibiotics’ ability to defeat it. This is why it’s referred to as a “superbug.”

MRSA is responsible for nearly 100,000 life-threatening infections a year (usually of the bloodstream or urinary tract) and 16,000-18,000 deaths (often from treatment-resistant pneumonia).

This represents more annual fatalities than AIDS causes!

Many of these MRSA infections are contracted in the hospital—one of the main reasons why hospitals are dangerous places for healthy people.

“An infection that just won’t go away”

MRSA preys upon people with compromised immune systems (such as hospital in-patients), babies, and the elderly.

Infected patients generally spend triple the average length of time in the hospital … are charged three times as much due to the intensive care required … and have five times the risk of a death.

So this is what’s currently breeding on supermarket meat and poultry – and your chance of bringing home a MRSA-infected product is one-in-four.

And here’s something even scarier: MRSA is spread by contact. So not only do meat products carry it, but the bacteria can be spread by the store employees (the butchers, stockers, and checkout clerks) … the carts that circulate throughout the shopping population … and your very own kitchen (unless you’re ultra-vigilant).

If you dine out, you can add restaurant employees to this list.

So who do we have to “thank” for this deadly new danger in our food supply?

The blame falls squarely on the USDA

For more than half a century it has sanctioned disgusting factory farming conditions for livestock referred to as concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). I’ve written about this inhumane practice in the past with regard to cattle raising and egg production .

Feedlot livestock are housed in filthy, overcrowded conditions that are ideal for spreading disease. To prevent this, CAFO operators routinely mix antibiotics in the animals’ feed.

This feed is almost always carbohydrate-rich grain because it rapidly fattens the animals (just like it fattens us – but that’s another story). Grain-feeding creates serious problems for cattle whose digestive systems are made for grazing grasses.

When you feed cattle a diet of grain, it creates acidosis in the stomach (rumen) resulting in ulcers. Food bacteria then migrate through these ulcerations and infect the animal’s liver. “Preventive doses” of antibiotics are fed to control this.

Antibiotics also act as a growth-stimulant, causing animals to grow larger and faster, which represents increased profit for the producer.

If this sounds like a lot of antibiotics, you’re right!

Livestock antibiotics (used for purposes other than treating disease) represents the largest use of these drugs (by far!) – about 25 million pounds annually, according to the Organic Consumers Association. This compares to the 3 million pounds of antibiotics administered to people in the US annually to treat diseases.

This, along with our use of growth-hormones, is the main reason why Japan and the European Union have banned the importation of US beef and animal products.

The USDA has had plenty of warnings

For several decades the scientific community has urgently warned the USDA that unrestricted use of agricultural antibiotics would eventually breed a new generation of deadly superbugs, but their pleas have fallen on deaf ears.

The government has had plenty of time to reform the CAFO system to avoid a public health crisis, but lobbyists have been able to convince the USDA to expand the status quo.

Time and again, the economic interests of large, corporate farmers have been placed ahead of the public’s health and safety. (Indeed, billions of tax dollars are paid to CAFO operators every year in the form of farm subsidies.)

Now the day of reckoning is here

At this very moment MRSA-contaminated meat products are sitting in supermarkets and, as of this writing, nothing of consequence is being done to recall these tainted products – or to alert the public.

And it wasn’t FDA inspectors who uncovered the problem.

Rather, the non-profit Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGRI) discovered the problem through a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts as part of The Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming.

This is serious business, folks

If I were you, I’d think very carefully before purchasing any conventional meat or poultry products – either fresh or frozen – now or in the near future. And that goes for food products containing uncooked meat, such as sausage or prepared meals.

I, for one, am also taking a break from restaurants until there’s a thorough investigation and the coast is clear.

That’s because restaurant workers are notoriously absent-minded when it comes to kitchen hygiene. Salad veggies sliced on a contaminated cutting board or handled after touching tainted raw meat could make you very sick.

Here are some other ways to protect yourself…

I purchase my meat and poultry directly from a local grower here in New Mexico. I know him and his family, visit his operation occasionally to check out the growing conditions, and also inspect the small processing plant where his animals are butchered.

You can do this too. To locate farmers in your area who raise and sell organic, hormone-free, pasture-raised animal products, go to www.eatwild.com. (In Canada, visit www.eatwild.com/products/canada.)

If you can’t take this route, make sure the animal products you buy are labeled “hormone-free, grass-fed, and free-range.” If possible, choose products that come from local purveyors.

Critics love to ridicule this strategy as an elite, fussy, lefty-liberal way to bring home the bacon. But once the news gets out about deadly MRSA contamination, they’ll be climbing all over each other to get their hands on some of these “elitist” products, too.

The health benefits of “pasture-raised”

The reasons to choose pasture-raised animal products are plentiful…

Feedlot beef contains more calories — up to 400 calories per cup – while grass-fed beef has only half that amount (just a few more calories than chicken).

Grass-fed meat is “cleaner”, having been allowed to graze in the sunshine on fresh grass, wild herbs, plus worms and insects.

Feedlot cattle, on the other hand, is fed grains, animal fat, sugar, “chicken waste” (you don’t want to know!), growth hormones, and antibiotics – while being housed in filthy conditions where they stand in their own excrement.

Grass-fed, free-range beef is chock-full of healthful fats, such as omega-3s, an essential fatty acid (EFA) that lowers inflammation and is beneficial for cardiovascular health, proper blood sugar metabolism, and lower cancer risk. (Omega-3 content of free-range beef often rivals that of certain fish!)

Range-raised animal products also contain another healthful fat called conjugated linoleic acid (CLA). Ohio State University researchers found that diabetics who added CLA to their diets lost weight and lowered their blood sugar levels. (Grass-fed cattle produce meat and dairy products containing up to 500% times more CLA than animals fed a grain diet.)

Finally, pasture-raised beef is 400% higher in vitamin E than grain-fed beef. Vitamin E, as you know, is the granddaddy of the antioxidants because it protects against free radicals and their oxidative damage to your body and it’s DNA.

And here’s a dirty secret…

Along with Staphylococcus aureus, a 1998 study published in Science also found that feedlot cattle harbored 6.3 million cells of E-Coli (the bacteria responsible for food poisoning) per gram of meat, whereas grass-fed cattle had a scant 20,000.

According to USDA accounts, 70% of all food-borne illnesses can be traced to tainted meat. And each year, 5,000 people die from these illnesses; while 76 million people are hit with a food-borne illness.

Oh yes, Congress and the USDA are well aware of this.

But their solution isn’t to hire more inspectors or to force CAFOs to clean up their act. Instead, they’re proposing a nationwide program to irradiate all animal products and then douse them in bacteria-killing chemicals. I’m not kidding.

Please take these “kitchen precautions” immediately

The chance of staph infection is lessened by cooking meat and poultry thoroughly, but that means you have to love well-done steaks and dried-out chicken.

This also means raw beef carpaccio is a no-no (unless you’re sure of the beef’s source).

Kitchen hygiene should be scrupulous. Never place or cut veggies near meat. Wash your hands frequently after handling animal products. Keep counters and cutting boards nearly sterile. And store meat and poultry on the lowest level of your fridge so it can’t leak on other foods.

Of course, if all this is too scary or too much trouble, you could always become a temporary vegetarian until the danger has past. Beans, eggs, cheese, and whole grains are excellent protein sources. And think of the money you’ll save.

Here’s something else we all should do

No matter what your survival strategy turns out to be, we should all get “mad as hell” at the USDA for dragging its feet on CAFO reform. These are human lives (yours and your loved ones) it is trifling with.

While you’re at it, add the FDA to the list for failing to regulate the use of antibiotics. (In Europe, it is impossible to get a prescription for these drugs when ill. If you need them, you’re hospitalized and doctors see that you take the entire regimen before you’re released. Result? Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are rare and not a problem.)

It is long past the time that our government put the health and welfare of it citizens ahead of corporate profits.

We must stand together and demand this

Maybe, just maybe, if we all raise a big enough stink about this latest deadly health threat, our law-makers will finally do something meaningful.

What do you think? I invite you to go to our Facebook page to share your concerns and propose some constructive suggestions.

Jim Healthy

God blesses!

[phkrause]

Interesting article LHC, thanks. It reminds me of a show on 3ABN a while back. It was a cooking show called "Abundant Living" where Curtis & Paula Eakins talk about chicken and fish farms and what these fish are fed. They take the dead chickens and fish and grind them up and feed them back to the live ones. Sounding pretty to me.

[Tom Wetmore]

Got news for you...

Staphylococcus aureus bacteria is everywhere. It is frequently found in the skin flora, especially the nose (1/3 of the population have it up their nose). 20% of humans are long term carriers of it. So rub your nose, pick up an apple and eat it. Chances are, you just ingested some more.

[Guest]

I am now going back to being a total vege, along with abstaining from rubbing my nose.

Thanks Life, and Tom.

[addvantage]

Quoting from the original posting: "Grass-fed, free-range beef is chock-full of healthful fats, such as omega-3s, an essential fatty acid (EFA) that lowers inflammation and is beneficial for cardiovascular health,..."

God has strictly forbidden man to eat the fat of animals. Arguments may be made in its favor, but it does not excuse man from God's requirements.

Ellen White herself refers to this same restriction in her counsel.

Leviticus 3

17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all

your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

[Dr. Rich]

I guess we must do as the American Indians did, just chew the fat and eat the meat. By the way, eating the fat is not a sin as many would like other's to believe--it may be unhealthy, but what ever goes into the mouth does not defile anyone, it is what comes out of the mouth.

Personally, I would rather kill it and grill it after removing the fat. And doesn't P E T A stand for 'people eating tasty animals'?

[Overaged]

Inspite of what you say there are no health benefits to eating dead corpses.

[Guest]

I guess we must do as the American Indians did, just chew the fat and eat the meat. By the way, eating the fat is not a sin as many would like other's to believe--it may be unhealthy, but what ever goes into the mouth does not defile anyone, it is what comes out of the mouth.

I guess you think it's ok to eat pigs then....?

[Dr. Rich]

Animals don't have "dead corpses". Only humans do. Dead animals are called food.

[Dr. Rich]

It does not matter what I think--it only matters what Jesus said and taught.

[SivartM]

Animals don't have "dead corpses". Only humans do. Dead animals are called food.

If your children's puppy died would you eat it?

[Bethlehem]

Bearing in mind one should live and let live I was nevertheless surprised to find that SDA members were not necessarily vegetarian.

This disappointment is on a similar footing to finding out that Buddhists can also eat meat, as indeed does the Dalia Lama.

I had also hoped that SDA would take a principled stand against vaccinations, as the torture of animals to obtain the vaccines is incredibly inhumane. Needless to say many vaccines come from cultures grown from unclean animal/flesh tissues, with the smallpox vaccine being particularly unpleasant. But a Google search indicates a most tolerant Adventist acceptance of vaccinations.

As a school teacher in England I see children in mainstream schools exhibiting borderline autistic behaviours, with even the 'normal' kids seemingly being hypercative these days. I think it likely in my lifetime that people will finally realise that messing around with the immunity system not only affects your own body but also the DNA of your future children.

I guess I was hoping there would be enough non vaccine taking SDA members to act as a control group, to prove this point.

Of course I am aware that there are many other factors that may also affect behaviour: diet, pesticides, lead in petrol to name but a few.

Love and Blessings to all

Bethlehem

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

**a bit off topic for a minute**

Medical use of dead animal parts helps keep people alive. Pig valves are commonly used in heart surgery to replace damaged valves in people.

And what about the use of cadaver organs for transplantation? Should that be banned?

**back to topic**

[Overaged]

Animals don't have "dead corpses". Only humans do. Dead animals are called food.

Help yourself friend

[Tom Wetmore]

Had a neighbor when I was a kid that hunted the woodchucks on our farm. He said, "Them's good eatin'." Helped feed his 12 or so kids.

[Tom Wetmore]

Inspite of what you say there are no health benefits to eating dead corpses.

Are you suggesting it would be better eating live ones?

[phkrause]

Are you suggesting it would be better eating live ones?

[Overaged]

Are you suggesting it would be better eating live ones?

Ha ha! Yes! (good one). Thats why I enclosed a pic of a "live one."

[Igakusei]

Bearing in mind one should live and let live I was nevertheless surprised to find that SDA members were not necessarily vegetarian.

This disappointment is on a similar footing to finding out that Buddhists can also eat meat, as indeed does the Dalia Lama.

I had also hoped that SDA would take a principled stand against vaccinations, as the torture of animals to obtain the vaccines is incredibly inhumane. Needless to say many vaccines come from cultures grown from unclean animal/flesh tissues, with the smallpox vaccine being particularly unpleasant. But a Google search indicates a most tolerant Adventist acceptance of vaccinations.

As a school teacher in England I see children in mainstream schools exhibiting borderline autistic behaviours, with even the 'normal' kids seemingly being hypercative these days. I think it likely in my lifetime that people will finally realise that messing around with the immunity system not only affects your own body but also the DNA of your future children.

I guess I was hoping there would be enough non vaccine taking SDA members to act as a control group, to prove this point.

Of course I am aware that there are many other factors that may also affect behaviour: diet, pesticides, lead in petrol to name but a few.

Love and Blessings to all

Bethlehem

I'm eagerly awaiting Gerry's response to this post. I suspect we're about to find some common ground.

[John317]

I had also hoped that SDA would take a principled stand against vaccinations, as the torture of animals to obtain the vaccines is incredibly inhumane. ...I think it likely in my lifetime that people will finally realise that messing around with the immunity system not only affects your own body but also the DNA of your future children.

I guess I was hoping there would be enough non vaccine taking SDA members to act as a control group, to prove this point.

Of course I am aware that there are many other factors that may also affect behaviour: diet, pesticides, lead in petrol to name but a few.

I've been connected in some way with the SDA church all my life and live in a major SDA center, having gone through sDA school much of my life, and I have never heard of its even being suggested that SDAs should have a particular view on vaccines.

I read recently that the study that was done which showed a relationship between the vaccines and autism was false.

Are you sure of a direct relationship between vaccines and various problems like you mention?

[Gerr]

Got news for you...

Staphylococcus aureus bacteria is everywhere. It is frequently found in the skin flora, especially the nose (1/3 of the population have it up their nose). 20% of humans are long term carriers of it. So rub your nose, pick up an apple and eat it. Chances are, you just ingested some more.

BBBbbbutttt .... while it's true that most people carry staph in their bodies, MRSA carriers are still overwhelmingly in the minority. But this is also becoming more and more common.

When I came to NC 5 years ago, I saw more cases of MRSA in SIX MONTHS than in 30+ yrs in CA. The reason I was given was the animal food industry and the overuse of antibiotics.

As an aside, a friend of mine is in the chicken-hauling business. He said that if the chickens have ACCESS to the outside of the chicken house, they will qualify as open-range chickens although NONE of them may actually get out of the chicken house.

[Gerr]

There has been several studies done finding NO link between autism and vaccines.

Does Thimerosal in Vaccines Cause Autism?

October 10, 2003

Robert S. Baltimore, MD

Infectious Diseases

For several years, there has been concern about possible toxic effects of thimerosal -- a preservative containing ethyl mercury that has been used in the . . .

Reviewing:

Madsen KM et al., Pediatrics 2003 Sep; 112:604-6.

Thimerosal-Containing Vaccines: No Link to Autism

October 7, 2003

Howard Bauchner, MD

General Medicine

Although researchers have found no link between the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autism (Journal Watch Jul 25 2003), some have speculated that there could . . .

Reviewing:

Madsen KM et al., Pediatrics 2003 Sep; 112:604-6.

Autism and Thimerosal Exposure: No Relation Found Again!

September 29, 2010

Howard Bauchner, MD

Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

This study adds to the growing body of evidence demonstrating no association between prenatal or infant exposure to thimerosal and autism.

Reviewing:

Price CS et al., Pediatrics 2010 Oct; 126:656.

Related Searches: autism spectrum disorder, autistic disorder, ethylmercury compounds, immunoglobulin, thimerosal, vaccines

Vaccines: Still Key to Child and Community Health Free

May 6, 2009

Howard Bauchner, MD

Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

A shift in public perception about vaccine safety threatens the success of immunization programs.

CME Exam

Reviewing:

Omer SB et al., N Engl J Med 2009 May 7; 360:1981.

But here is a recent release:

Vaccines Led to Autism-Like Symptoms, Government Says

The federal government has conceded in a "vaccine court" case that childhood vaccines worsened one girl's rare mitochondrial disorder, leading to autism-like symptoms, reports the Associated Press.

The government says the girl — who has oxidative phosphorylation disease — should be paid from a federal vaccine-injury fund, according to the AP. However, a federal attorney maintains that the government "has not conceded that vaccines cause autism." (The vaccine court jurisdiction was created in 1987 under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act.)

The AP, citing a written concession from the Department of Health and Human Services, reports that "five vaccines the girl received on one day in 2000 aggravated her mitochondrial condition, predisposing her to metabolic problems that manifested as worsening brain function 'with features of autism spectrum disorder.'"

The AP says almost 5000 families are currently seeking compensation for autism and other development disabilities blamed on vaccines.

LINK(S):

Associated Press story

[shelly]

When ever the conversation of meat eating and SDA comes up we conviently forget that Jesus ate meat. Doesn't the bible advise us that we are not to judge each other on whether we eat meat or not? Why is it an issue in our church at all. Our health message should revolve around clean and unclean meats which is biblical.

[Gail]

When ever the conversation of meat eating and SDA comes up we conviently forget that Jesus ate meat. Doesn't the bible advise us that we are not to judge each other on whether we eat meat or not? Why is it an issue in our church at all. Our health message should revolve around clean and unclean meats which is biblical.

Have you heard any conversation as to those who are translated? Apparently they abstain from flesh... anyone with the quote handy?

Not that it applies as a motivation to abstain, or, it shouldn't, in my way of thinking. There are better reasons to want to belong to Christ.

[Bethlehem]

John,

Ellen G.White lived, more or less concurrently with Louis Pasteur. It is not clear if she knew about the vaccination debate in Europe but she taught that it is a sin not to care for our own bodies, since they are 'temples of the Holy Spirit.'

“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”

1 Corinthians 6:19.

“If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy: for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.” 1 Corinthians 3:17

There is a book called 'The Vaccination Crisis' written by an SDA member, which is well worth reading for anyone concerned by this issue.

The drug companies are a vastly rich pillar of society and will do anything to disprove vaccinations are anything but for the good of society. When the proof is found to link over vaccinated children with maladies of one kind and another there will be a cover-up, or a terrible outcry. My guess is that conditions will have to get worse before the penny drops and people start to wise up

From my own point of view, as a life long vegetarian and non vaccinated I have no physical issues at all: no allergies, no hayfever no hyperactivity etc. Last time I visited the USA I was shocked by how many people have a range of allegies and don't think too much of it at all. They just take the drug to help control the condition. The number of kids in your schools (and in UK) who are on Ritilin, or a drug like it to control behaviour is frightening because nothing is remedied. It's a drug for life. When I go on the sports fields there are buckets full of asthma pumps for at least 15% of the kids playing sports. I find it hard to believe that our kids struggle to breath the air.

I think back to my school years and don't recall these type of problems. So my proof is my own experience...which will not count for much which is why I was hoping to find non vaccinated SDA members who were also healthy, which might count for something.

Love & Blessings

Bethlehem