What Drugs Was Your Thanksgiving Turkey On?

 

'Antibiotics and other drugs are common in the turkey that thousands of Americans eat every day.'

'So far, 2011 has not been a great year for turkey producers. In May, an article in Clinical Infectious Diseases reported that half of U.S. meat from major grocery chains--turkey, beef, chicken and pork--harbors antibiotic resistant staph germs commonly called MRSA. Turkey had twice and even three times the MRSA of all other meats, in another study.

In June, Pfizer announced it was ending arsenic-containing chicken feed which no one realized they were eating anyway, but its arsenic-containing Histostat, fed to turkeys, continues. Poultry growers use inorganic arsenic, a recognized carcinogen, for "growth promotion, feed efficiency and improved pigmentation," says the FDA. Yum.' 

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If You Eat Chicken, Chances Are You're Eating Arsenic?

'More than 80% of chicken farms in the western world deliberately add a common cancer-causing agent to chicken feed. The worst part is that it's government approved.

In the last few decades, poultry has become one of the most contaminated sources of meat available to humans. Chickens are exposed to infections from improper handling, air and soil pollution, environmental toxins, preservatives, metals and many other chemicals infused in all the vaccinations they receive.' 


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The Egg Recall and Why Local Isn’t Necessarily Better

'I’ve already written about food recalls a number of times, but the point about finding sustainable food is one that I find must be revisited often…because there are so many misconceptions going around about why simply avoiding one brand over another is not enough.

And I’ll also tell you why it’s really important to know your farmer and what practices he or she uses to raise the chickens that lay the eggs you are going to eat.

Read the conversation that convinced me to write this post:

Last week, someone in my family (who shall go nameless to keep the peace, and he never reads my blog anyway) called and asked me about eggs. He wanted to know where I buy my eggs. I replied that I buy them from the Capital City Public Market (in downtown Boise, ID) farmer’s market from a farmer from Payette, ID (it’s about 60 miles away from where I live in Boise). The farm is Matthew’s All Natural Meats.'

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