Animal Derived Food in the US is Gross

This article touches on one of the reasons Crystal and I have started to really watch what we eat. I love beef, chicken, pork, basically all proteins, but the industry is letting the consumers down. I am beginning to realize how the industry is full of sleazy businessmen, posing as farmers, with no regard to the health of the general public or the animals. The government is also afraid to step in and demand change, because it will kill the industry! Every member of congress knows they won't get reelected on those terms...

Take some time to read this story, here's a little segment where they are referring to the MRSA virus:

"A number of clinical and academic studies bear this out: a recentCanadian studyshowed nearly 14% of pork chops (about one in seven) and 6.3% of ground pork sold in supermarkets carried the contamination -- taken together, 9.6% of all pork samples. Additionally, 5.6% of the beef and 1.2% of the poultry carried the bug. The bacterium was also found in veal, lamb and other meats.

Another report, by Louisiana StateUniversity, found 5.5% of pork samples and 3.3% of beef samples taken from local supermarkets were contaminated. Yet another - this one out of the pork industry's lobby arm, the National Pork Board -- found MRSA in 3% of pork samples. That means a family buying raw pork twice a week brings MRSAhomean average of three times a year."

Meat Tainted with Deadly Virus is Being Sold to Consumers; Government Forms 'Work Group'