The Pink Menace - NYTimes.com: "The answer lies in the industrial production of livestock on a scale that’s far too large to sustain without significant collateral damage. E. coli, found in the digestive tracts of cattle, is common on factory farms where cattle are fed only grain. (Their stomachs are meant to digest grass.) The incomprehensible quantity of manure produced by these cattle — also often containing E. coli — is deposited on the land, sometimes seeping into the water supply; that’s how you wind up with E. coli in vegetables. To make matters worse, “healthy” farm animals are routinely fed so many antibiotics that E. coli, salmonella and other pathogens are developing resistance to commonly prescribed drugs."
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Read the whole piece. Then consider that we - the Internet - are the best protection against what will be a revolution in safety all around. I can't wait until it gets to oil, construction and automobiles, my trio of economic non-starters.
Charles Sanders Peirce - Thinking in Threes
