Study: Half of supermarket meat may have staph bug

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: AP

ATLANTA (AP) -- Half the meat and poultry sold in the supermarket may be tainted with the staph germ, a new report suggests.

The new estimate is based on just 136 samples of beef, chicken, pork and turkey purchased from grocery stores in Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Flagstaff, Ariz. and Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

Proper cooking kills the germs, and federal health officials estimate staph accounts for less than 3 percent of foodborne illnesses, far less than more common bugs like salmonella and E. coli.

The new study found more than half the samples contained Staphylococcus aureus, a bacteria that can make people sick. Worse, half of those contaminated samples had a form of staph that's resistant to at least three kinds of antibiotics.

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[CBGLuthier]

1. Is there a single fucking thing this country can do right?

[aggiesal]

4. GOP Budgets less ...

This is what happens.

Repeat after me.
No Regulation
No Regulation
...

De-fund the FAA, you get sleeping control tower workers.

De-fund the FDA, you get Staph germs, ecoli, and other germs in your food.

De-fund the SEC, you get banks stealing your money.

De-fund the DOJ, you get bank execs getting away with stealing your money.

I could probably keep going.

[Juneboarder]

7. Tax Cuts, Tax, Cuts...

Blah... Blah.. Blah.

[WhiteTara]

6. kill people. n/t

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. Stop complaining people, it's extra protein.

Ick!

[Warpy]

3. That's why we cook meat, so we can eat it safely

True carnivores have short guts that eliminate foods quickly enough that bacteria in meat can't infect them. They eliminate plant foods too slowly to gain full nutrition from them.

We've got that long simian gut that is better suited to plant foods, although our close cousins in the wild eat insects, birds, fish, and occasionally (but rarely) carrion.

I'll leave the carpaccio and tartare to the foodies. I know what's likely living in commercially grown and slaughtered meat and no thanks. If I eat it (and I have free range chicken wings simmering for soup right now), I'll cook it thoroughly, thanks.

[madrchsod]

5. that`s why you throughly cook meat and other proper stuff

just think about how bad meat was before regulations

[mistertrickster]

8. That's why our ancestors long ago learned to cook meat. Long story short,

short, problem solved.

On edit--sorry about the echo . . . should have read replies before posting.

And it is true the cooking doesn't kill everything: the prions that cause mad-cow disease for instance . . .

[Hawkowl]

9. Vegetarianism

It is the future. It's greener, it's healthier, it easier on the animals, it has a smaller carbon footprint. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.

[defendandprotect]

10. +1000% ---