Antibiotics and other drugs are common in the turkey that thousands of Americans eat every day.
So far, 2011 has not been a great year for turkey producers. In May, an article in Clinical Infectious Diseases reported that half of U.S. meat from major grocery chains--turkey, beef, chicken and pork--harborsantibiotic resistant staph germs commonly called MRSA. Turkey had twice and even three times the MRSA of all other meats, in another study.
In June, Pfizer announced it was ending arsenic-containing chicken feed which no one realized they were eating anyway, but its arsenic-containing Histostat, fed to turkeys, continues. Poultry growers use inorganic arsenic, a recognized carcinogen, for "growth promotion, feed efficiency and improved pigmentation," says the FDA. Yum.
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This is exactly why we need an independent processing facility around here. Other states have them and true small family farms can take their products there to be butchered or a larger scale basis than a small butcher shop can handle. Then they don't have to be under contract with a large company that dictates to them everything including what drugs are going into our food.
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