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How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Animals, & Consumers

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C C Offline
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc...785&cn=139

EXCERPT: [...] For the many ways in which intensive animal agriculture pollutes and degrades the environment, you can look at Lisa Kemmerer's "Eating Earth". And if you're curious about how it uses and abuses workers, you can read Timothy Pachirat's "Every Twelve Seconds". But until now, there hasn't been a volume dedicated to detailing the public health crisis for which intensive animal agriculture is responsible. Ellen Silbergeld's "Chickenizing Farms & Food" fills this important gap.

Here, in short, is the problem. The vast majority of the meat that's currently available derives from animals that have been fed antibiotics at subtherapeutic levels [...] Ostensibly, this is because it improves feed conversion rates and reduces mortality. However, this creates the ideal environment for bacteria to evolve various forms of resistance against these drugs, and that's exactly what's been happening. [...]

You'd think that state and federal officials would be trying to combat this potential catastrophe. To the contrary, they've opted to weaken regulatory oversight, ceding this responsibility to industry. [...] This is as unfortunate as it is predictable: the potential consequences for public health are dire, but thanks to scant regulation, the industry has no incentive to police itself more aggressively.

As Silbergeld argues, the rise of the antibiotic resistant bacteria is particularly discouraging because it doesn't have to be this way, even from the industry's perspective....
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Zinjanthropos Online
CC...the odds are probably greater for me to get run over & killed by a meat plant truck than die from eating its cargo. I could go and kill my own dinner and die from an assortment of toxins that flow through venison veins. Or maybe I'll try and see if I can survive eating fish full of plastics and mercury. I'll go green and ingest some pesticides instead plus the deadly GMO factor.....aaaaarrrrgggghhhhhhh!!!. 

I used to love it as a kid growing up in Northern Ontario when I could find a clear stream and drink the water. I wouldn't do it today. I used to fish along the Niagara River and there was a spot close by where people would fill up cans of filtered drinking water that seeped through the layers of rock lining the Niagara Gorge. It came to a screeching halt one day when it was discovered a resident who lived high above the spot had an underground septic tank that was leaking for years.....no one died from what I can remember.
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RainbowUnicorn Offline
(Dec 22, 2016 01:21 AM)C C Wrote: the industry has no incentive to police itself more aggressively

is there any industry that polices itself up to, then above and beyond what the law dictates ?
we know of many who skirt laws and regulations to avoid having to comply.
my question is is there any example anywhere to prove that voluntary self regulation works ?
i think the whole voluntary self regulation thing is the con-artist politicians way of saying they are not going to do anything.
im not one to go and blame businessess for not policing themselves because businessess quite clearly show they have no moral conscience and simply mechanise profit in the best way for that particular company.
meanwhile there are quite a lot of VERY WELL PAID politicians who have life long top price medical cover paid for by the working class and VERY LARGE pensions for life and free travel all paid for by the working class who they are supposed to be working for.

i find it quite odd that media bother to leave the camera of mic on when polaticians start using these words "self policing" for regulatory control.
its just bold faced Public Relations spin doctoring for the ignorant and ill informed time poor.


if someone can prove me wrong by posting an example i would be quite appreciative as i have yet to find one.(maybe i have been looking in the wrong place?)

(Dec 22, 2016 04:31 AM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: It came to a screeching halt one day when it was discovered a resident who lived high above the spot had an underground septic tank that was leaking for years.....no one died from what I can remember.
Excellent story to have people stopped from taking the water as a bore is drilled into useless water(probably not requiring a permit because it had been deemed contaminated for consumption) to sell off or maintain excluve rights to.
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Syne Offline
Sounds like an ideological screed. I've yet to see compelling research to back up such claims.
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