[Shaved Monkey]

A sampling of grocery store meat in five US cities has shown a type of drug-resistant bacteria is contained in about one quarter of beef, chicken, pork and turkey for sale, according to a study.

Staphylococcus aureus, a bacteria that can cause skin infections, pneumonia, sepsis or endocarditis in people with weak hearts, was found in 47 percent of samples, said the study in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, released on Friday.

More than half -- 52 percent -- of the infected samples contained a tough strain of S. aureus that was resistant to at least three types of antibiotics.

"The fact that drug-resistant S. aureus was so prevalent, and likely came from the food animals themselves, is troubling, and demands attention to how antibiotics are used in food-animal production today."

http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news ... 1dho1.html

Scary thought don't know if this was reported in US papers??
Here's another good article on the anitbiotic industry in Economist magazine
http://www.economist.com/node/18483671? ... d=18483671
Kind of makes you wish for a post peak oil lifestyle that doesn't include industrial agriculture.

[timmac]

Better cook that steak well done, a little pink inside might be a bad idea..

[Fiddlerdave]

It is amazing how we deny or children and ourselves the benefits of antibiotics when we need them to prevent creating super-germs while corporate farms feed tons of antibiotics to healthy animals daily, 1000's of TONS annually!

One of the reasons I eat organic meat and drink organic milk when possible is that those operations are are far less likely to have antibiotic resistant bacteria and are kept far cleaner sine they can't resort to antibiotics for the animals even when they have infections.

[Cid_Yama]

So our meat livestock practices are the real source of MRSA. Why am I not surprised?