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Meat Wagon: Filthy swine
U.S. officials dither while antibiotic-resistant bacteria strains creep into our pork supply |
Tom Philpott |
10 Jun 2008 |
Gristmill |
| In Meat Wagon, we round up the latest outrages from the meat and livestock industries.The good news is that people are earnestly trying to figure out if a deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria strain is infecting our nation's vast supply of pork.The bad news is, they don't work for a government regulator with the power to do something about it. Rather, they're university researchers and journalists, whose only real power is the public outrage they can generate through th ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, Department of Agriculture, food, Food and Drug Administration, health, industrial ag (all these topics) |
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