Posted on 06/24/2007 6:10:19 PM PDT by blam
Let me correct myself. I was relying on memory (not a smart move, I guess), so I researched. In 2001 50% of the BB ribs sold in the US came from Denmark. This info from an article at the time there was a temporary ban on meat products from Europe in early 2001 due to foot-and-mouth disease in other parts of the EU.
We’re all gonna dieeee!
Geez, if it ain’t one thing it’s another with the vegan anti-meat nazis.
Rotting meat also becomes infected with botulinum (as do many other foods)—even rotting people.
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Say no to Union/China food and say yes to home delivery..
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Last I checked, the high-tech technique called “COOKING” kills MSRA, and any other kind of bacteria.
Oh noes! The flesh eating bacteria commonly found in human sinuses can also be found in uncooked meat!
I guess you shouldn’t stick raw meat up your nose.
(BTW, some hospitals are now giving anti-MRSA sinus spray to people who are soon to undergo surgery.
Just asking.
You beat me to it. We are idiots for not using that tool.
I noticed the other day, that some dog treats I have, had been radiation sterilized, and it really ticked me off that they can be protected with this method, and we can’t, due to non-scientific idiocy. I think it was a bag of pigs ears, but it might have been some leather chew “bones”.
I seem to recall spinach and lettuce being quite a problem recently.
I guess you shouldn’t stick raw meat up your nose.
Gee thanks. NOW you tell me!
From the “For What It’s Worth” department...
In 2002 I had to have an emergency spinal fusion surgery due to an accident.
In 2005 I was in great pain, went to the Doc and had an x-ray of my back which showed a blown disc above the fusion.
The Doc opened me up to take care of the disc and discovered a massive staph infection. It was not, thankfully, MRSA.
They removed the disc, closed me up and then three days later re-opened the area and removed the fusion device and cleaned up the infection.
I had to have a pic line run from my right arm into my heart. The pic line was attached to a pump that injected very heavy duty antibiotics into my heart 24/7 for thirteen weeks.
Following that, I was on oral antibiotics for a year and a half. And this was for non-MRSA infection.
One way of testing for infection is having bloodwork done and checking the SED rate. A normal SED rate is between 1 and 10. When they checked mine upon admittance to the hospital it was 220.
I would not have known of the infection except for the pain from the blown disc. The Doc told me that had I waited another 2 weeks that the infection would have killed me.
They surmise that I got the infection from the original emergency surgery.
If you are the least bit concerned you should have your SED rate checked.
I would not wish what I went through on my worst enemy.
I guess you missed that whole spinach thing last year.
I have never heard of a person contacting MRSA by eating something. I would think that proper cooking and the low Ph of the stomach would seriously affect its virulence. Usually it enters through open wounds or cut. The MRSA strain is around us all the time. We are constantly exposed without knowing it. For the immune compromised this is deadly, but for those with a normal immune system it is all in a days work. This sounds like alarmist crap to me.
My guess is that the meat that was tested came from kitchens that were also preparing seafood.
Does is flavor everything with garlic?
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