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.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Microbiologists at Arizona State University launched salmonella into space. Salmonella! Yes, they loaded test tubes with Salmonella bacteria and then sent those tubes to space aboard the September 06 shuttle flight.
I’m not suprised that the microbes came back from their journey even more virulent and dangerous than when they left. I wonder if the biologists, were suprised though.
The outcome of this experiment was published in the National Academy of Sciences.
Apparently spaceflight has an affect on the ‘master genetic regulator’. Seeing how an organizm turns ’super’ may give some insight into how to turn it weaker than normal? Maybe.
Has common sense taken leave of the planet? Maybe.
I can’t help wondering with all the ’super-strains’ of bacteria already mutating here on earth, super-strains becoming more and more ’super’ on their own, why we need to create even more powerful ones intentionally.
Maybe the Salmonella wasn’t supposed to come back to earth 3 times more deadly than when it left but, was that not one of the possibilites in researchers had in mind?
We have to be glad that bottles of ‘SARS’ or ‘EBOLA’ or ‘AIDS’ weren’t sent to space. Then again, maybe they have been. Maybe. I’m not excited over the prospect of microbes, or anything else sent to space returning to earth in a ’super-fied’ state and I think a huge amount of caution should be used, and I pray there are ‘regulations and sane oversights’ regarding what is allowed to be shot into space over our heads and our planet.
In my mind there are only 4 ways anything can come back from Space, or War, or for that matter a trip to the Market or a day at the Office:
Changed for the better
Changed for the worse
Unchanged
Dead
Lisa Nowak and Salmonella seem to have come back from space in the same category.
On the topic of War: the first death by ‘Cholera’ has been reported today by the W.H.O., world health organization, in Baghdad. The outbreak of cholera has spread to 25 districts of Northern Iraq and 4 districts in Southern Iraq and across the center of the country. it is extimated that more than 30,000 people there have fallen ill with Cholera symptoms, but only 2,116 have been identified as positive cholera, this since late August.
Labels: Cholera, Salmonella, Space, WHO
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Microbiologists Develop Super Salmonella; the regular kind wasn’t Virulent enough?
