Did you know that a staggering two million Americans become infected with antibiotic resistant bacteria each year?
According to the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA), one little organism – antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus aureus – yearly kills more people than homicide, HIV/AIDS and Parkinson’s disease put together.
Shockingly, these deadly microorganisms do not infect us through unwashed hands as so often feared. They attack us through favorite foods we think we can’t live without.
We live in a world where a carnivorous diet is in high demand. Many people consume meat as often as three times a day.
But have you really thought about where the meat comes from? And how the livestock was raised, treated and fed?
Today, most farm-raised animals such as chicken and cattle are loaded with antibiotics to promote their growth and prevent diseases as they often live in crammed, unsanitary conditions. In fact, 80 percent of all antibiotics used in US is agricultural.
Those antibiotics are transferred to humans via meat consumption.
These unhealthy and intense livestock farming methods were developed to boost meat production while cutting cost.
The outcome is drug-resistant disease, which has become a huge problem worldwide.
A statement released at the end of 2013 by Consumer Reports reveals that an astounding 97% of all chicken sampled throughout the US was contaminated by serious disease-causing bacteria…most of which was antibiotic resistant.
Microorganisms like Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella, enterococcus, and E. coli are just a few of them.
The best way to protect yourselves from getting infected by antibiotic resistant diseases is to be aware of the quality of the meat we are choosing.
Choose meat from organic, small farms where animals are not fed with antibiotics and are kept in healthy conditions is key.
Make sure your meat is always well-cooked and be aware of safe food handling practices.
However, as many studies have revealed in the past, the safest and the healthiest diet is the meat-free diet. Foods like fresh vegetables, fruits and legumes are loaded with vitamins and minerals providing great, safe health benefits.
As just one of many who does not condone the killing of these poor innocent creatures who know no better, it is a very good reason not to eat dead animals or birds. Each day billions of creatures around the world are sacrificed to meet the needs of unfeeling people who consume meat in its many forms, but at what cost to the health of those who seem to be unable to live without this process. It isn’t difficult to change the way you think about becoming a vegetarian and if I can do it without suffering any health problems then so can most other people. I’m nothing special when it comes to not eating meat of any description, but I made a conscious decision to go that way more than twenty years ago and feel better for that decision, animals are my friends and those of us who consider animals from that point of view, all say that, we don’t eat our friends, pure and simple……..?
There is only one generational study, on the health of people in general, studying specifically, ..the Teeth, Dr Weston A price..all native cultures where animal protien eaters, its not animal protien thats the danger, its the type, amount, and non regional that is the cause..As it has been found with Vegetarians, and Vegans..Wholefoods are always the answer, not restrictive, belief based diets, that have no generational, basis..
Plants are conscious sentient beings as are animals, time to let go of non observational knowledge, and start understanding the world we live in, the entire Planet is omniverous, simply by the soil makeup, aand how it functions, 650 plant species are carniverous..and all are omniverous..pete melov, observationalist
A meat free diet is not necessarily safer than what you advocate. Remember the deaths from cantaloupe last year? Remember tourists who fall ill overseas from eating fruit and veg? Hygiene applies equally to all.
In my part of the world, Africa, animals are raised free range, eating grass and natural vegetation, and are not subject/exposed to too much medication. The only challenge is that monitoring by health personnel is not guaranteed to ensure that a few of the animals which may be unhealthy are not slaughtered for public consumption
keep exploding the good health news.
I have had such good results using Colloidal Silver compared to the usual prescribed antibiotics that I have to wonder why you never mention it. I have never heard of a legitimate side effect from it, but I have heard of many from prescribed antibiotics. In fact one session I had before I found out about Colloidal Silver destroyed my hearing. As a sample, a case of shingles I had took a month to cure with prescribed antibiotics but a year later when the shingles came back I used Colloidal Silver and the infection was gone in two days. Further, it does not destroy Lactobacilli which if destroyed leaves the gut open to infection by Candida Albicans which in turn makes the gut porous and leaves the body susceptible to a host of problems.
What I read about colloidal silver, it normally refers to skin discoloration, but that has not happened to me or any of my friends, and if you check the references, whoever is referred to as turning grey has consumed an unusually large amount.
i always like my meat cooked very well done. As a matter of fact, you can burn it and I will be happy.
I keep telling my daughters that they should not be eating raw fish, Sushi, as some of it can be tainted, but kids don’t listen. Any meat, fish, eaten raw can cause illness if you are unlucky enough to get the tainted piece.