Pacific Spirit Marine Institute
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Tyson is America’s second largest producer of chicken. The company routinely uses gentamicin. Gentamicin is an antibiotic used to treat infections in humans. Tyson hide the use of gentamicin from the USDA, or in a politically correct statement by Amanda Eamich USDA spokeswoman, “The use of this particular antibiotic was not disclosed to us.” Therefore the statement on the labels of Tyson Chicken “raised without antibiotics” could not be considered “truthful and accurate.”
Which came first; the chicken or the egg?
A Tyson Spokesman Gary Mickelson defended the labels by saying gentamicin was administered to eggs one day before hatching, therefore Tyson played by label rules when it says, “raised without antibiotics”. Presumably Tyson falls on the pro side of Roe v. Wade, the life of a chicken apparently doesn’t begin until it’s born, or hatched.
Apparently the routine use of gentamicin did nothing to prevent at least one flock of hens from coming down with the bird flu, H7N3. Tyson began destroying 15,000 hens from a flock in Arkansas yesterday or Friday or as soon as the virus was discovered, but not announced.
Blame Canada!
Jon Fitch, director of Arkansas’s Livestock and Poultry Commission said, “The speculation at this point in time was that a large group of Canadian geese made home on a pond very near this facility.” “Our speculation is someone stepped into some of those droppings and carried it into the poultry house.”
Fitch said state officials decided against announcing the infection to the general public because the birds tested positive for exposure to the H7N3 strain of the virus and not the H5N1 that ravaged the Asian poultry and killed 240 people worldwide. What the heck makes someone part of the general public?
Tyson is killing the chickens by carbon-dioxide gas.
Meanwhile, 40 people in Texas and New Mexico have fallen ill from eating one of summer’s most anticipated crops, fresh juicy tomatoes. At least 17 of those have been hospitalized. 30 more people have become sick with the same Salmonella infection in Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Idaho, Illinois and Indiana. No word on a Canadian link so far.
In California cases of a rare form of TB, Mycobacterium bovis, are cropping up said to be caused by eating unpasteurized dairy products. Luckily this form of TB isn’t spread through human to human contact but by eating dairy products coming from infected cattle.
The 65% increase in cases is said to be due to smuggled “bathtub cheese” made in home tubs and backyard troughs. We are to believe the cheese is then smuggled to the U.S. and sold by street vendors. Ag officials seized more than 375 pounds of illegal cheese from an open-air market in San Bernardino last year.
Who wants another helping? Save room for dessert!
Labels: Bird Flu, Cheese, Gentamicin, H7N3, Salmonella, TB, Tomatoes, Tyson Chicken, USDA, illegal cheese
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Poison! Unsavory Chicken, Tomatoes and Cheese won’t be on my summer menu.
