I just quit eating conventional pork.

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There are antibiotic-resistant killer bacteria in our pork, and there is no regulatory agency that cares.

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[singingnettle]

That's really scary. My father died of MRSA.

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Given the hellishly crowded and unsanitary conditions and blanket antibiotic use in modern hog feeding operations, they're probably ideal breeding grounds--better than hospitals even.

[fjorlief]

Although in the article the author makes it clear that the MRSA in the pork is not the animal variety, but the human variety. More likely human contamination than porcine. Am wondering about the transmission of MRSA from the raw meat to those who process it, leading them to then pass it on to the meat that they are handling...

Makes me glad that I have been, not really so foolishly after all, buying my meat from New Seasons rather than the cheaper meat at the "regular" grocery.

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Yes, but note this from the article too:

Meanwhile in the Netherlands, one-in-five human MRSA cases were caused by a "livestock associated" strain of the bug, and one study of 26 Dutch pig farmers found a MRSA rate 760 times greater than among patients admitted to Dutch hospitals.