Tag: Antibiotics
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#MorningMonarchy: February 28, 2018
Robo-crops, yellow cardinals and eugenics law + this day in history w/the assassination of Olof Palme and your song of the day w/Kacey Musgraves on your Morning Monarchy for February 28, 2018.
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#MorningMonarchy: February 14, 2018
Olympics outbreaks, epidemic levels and food stamp collectors + this day in history w/Saint Valentine and our song of the day by Shakey Graves on your Morning Monarchy for February 14, 2018.
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Superbugs That Overpower Antibiotics Spreading
from reuters.com: The spread of deadly superbugs that evade even the most powerful antibiotics is no longer a prediction but is happening right now across the world, United Nations officials said on Wednesday. Antibiotic resistance has the potential to affect anyone, of any age, in any country, the U.N.’s World Health Organisation (WHO) said in…
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Chick-fil-A to Serve Chicken Without Antibiotics
from usatoday.com: Here’s a chicken that has surprisingly crossed the road — away from antibiotics. Chick-fil-A, the nation’s largest chicken chain in annual sales, shocked the fast-food world late Tuesday when it announced that the company plans to only sell chicken raised without antibiotics at all of its stores within five years. The move is…
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CDC Threat Report: ‘We Will Soon Be in a Post-Antibiotic Era’
from wired.com: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just published a first-of-its-kind assessment of the threat the country faces from antibiotic-resistant organisms, ranking them by the number of illnesses and deaths they cause each year and outlining urgent steps that need to be taken to roll back the trend. The agency’s overall…
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Low-Carb Diet May Slow Alzheimer’s Disease
from mercola.com: Alzheimer’s disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S. This fatal and progressive condition destroys brain cells, resulting in memory loss and severe thinking and behavioral problems (aggression, delusions, and hallucinations) that interfere with daily life and activities. The cause is conventionally believed to be a mystery. While we know…
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Antibiotics In Chicken Causing New Infections
from therealfoodchannel.com: Antibiotics are routinely given to factory farmed chickens, even healthy birds, to increase their growth rate. New research show a direct link between a superbug, resulting from eating chicken raised on antibiotics, and bladder infections. Eight million women suffer from bladder infections. These infections are becoming more common, lasting longer, and are more…
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#BingeAndPurge: Soft-Kill, Kept Secret and More
19 Ways Cancer Becomes the Ultimate Soft-Kill Operation // We Spend $20 Billion a Year to Fight Illegal Drugs, Yet Cocaine Is Cheaper Than It Was 30yrs Ago // Video: The Opium Origins of Skull & Bones // Squeeze 100% bacon paste from a tube // Federal Government Allows more than 250 Nonorganic Substances to…
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Antibiotic-Free Meat Map Launched for Consumers
Coinciding with the new “Meat Without Drugs” campaign announced this week, tech start up Real Time Farms launched a crowd-sourced map to help consumers locate meat from animals raised without antibiotics.
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Superbugs From Overuse of Antibiotics on Factory Farms
from therealfoodchannel.com: Big Government loves Big Agriculture because their friends at the Big Banks make big bucks off it. The only problem is that this totally unnatural way of raising livestock destroys communities, kills family farming and has created new breeds of super bugs that have even the AMA running scared.
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Debate Heats Up Over Poultry Inspection Proposal
from foodsafetynews.com: Critics say privatization puts consumers at risk; FSIS says modernization will prevent illnesses, save tax dollars. If you listen to both critics and proponents of a new U.S. Department of Agriculture proposal to expand a pilot poultry inspection program, you might wonder if they’re talking about the same thing. In January, the USDA’s…
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#BingeAndPurge: Teen Tics, Viral Picks, Hunger Games
The Curious Case of Teen Tics In Le Roy, NY – The Mystery of 18 Twitching Teenagers in Le Roy // Why Americans Are Angry About Pink Slime // ‘Viral’ Olive Garden Review Aftermath Continues
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usda, fda get an f on livestock antibiotics
from grist: In December, the FDA revealed for the first time that every year 29 million pounds of antibiotics are fed to animals — often through the dangerous technique of administering low-dose, growth-promoting hormones to livestock via their feed. In total, that figure represents 80% of all antibiotics used in the US. As Grist has…
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5/26 Binge & Purge: Declarations, Doomsday & Marmite
A modern declaration of independence: A real revolution starting in our own backyards // Keepers of the seeds: How seed-saving native farmers preserve agricultural heritage // Factory farms produce 100x more waste than all people in US combined – and it’s killing our drinking water // Hedge fund managers pour assets into farmland as doomsday…
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high bacteria levels in meat at US stores: report
with superbugs contaminating fresh meat, the truth comes out about food safety bill from reuters: Meat found on grocery store shelves often contains high levels of bacteria, with more than half of the bacteria resistant to multiple types of antibiotics, a study released on Friday said. The meat is still safe to eat but consumers…