Antibiotic Resistance, Cultivated Meat, and Our Health
Medically important antibiotics are being squandered by animal agriculture to compensate for typical factory farming...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Medically important antibiotics are being squandered by animal agriculture to compensate for typical factory farming practices. Cultivating muscle meat directly from cells instead of raising and slaughtering animals would reduce the risk of foodborne illnesses “due to fecal contamination during...
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Food Safety and Cultivated Meat
What are the direct health implications of making clean meat—that is, meat without animals? In...
Toxoplasmosis Prevention
What are the risks of contracting the brain parasite toxoplasma from cat litter or meat? ...
The Link Between Chicken Consumption and Urinary Tract Infections
Only about one in four people have heard of Campylobacter, compared to 90 percent who...
How to Handle Raw Poultry
Poultry is the most common cause of serious food-poisoning outbreaks, followed by fish, then beef....
Grind Your Chia Seeds
The secret to unlocking the benefits of chia seeds may be grinding them up. When...
Sources of Oxidized Cholesterol
Chicken, fish, and egg powder in processed foods present greater risk from cholesterol oxidation byproducts,...
Should Cancer Patients Avoid Raw Fruits and Vegetables?
Back in the 1960s, a patient isolator unit was developed for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy....
The Food Safety Risk of Organic vs. Conventional
The stated principles of organic agriculture are “health, ecology, fairness, and care,” but if you...
Peeks Behind the Egg Industry Curtain
The American Egg Board is a promotional marketing board appointed by the U.S. government whose...
Chicken Salmonella Outbreaks Show Food Safety Systems Failure
Salmonella causes more hospitalizations and more deaths than any other foodborne illness, and it’s been...
Viral Food Poisoning from Pesticides?
Although the most serious causes of food poisoning like Salmonella come largely from animal products...
Superbugs on Retail Chicken
One of the most concerning developments in medicine is the emergence of bacterial super-resistance—resistance not...
Cayenne for Irritable Bowel
Nearly 50 million Americans come down with food poisoning every year. Over a hundred thousand...
Egg Industry Caught Making False Claims
On the basis of concerns from the American Heart Association and consumer groups, the Federal...
How Avoiding Chicken Could Prevent Bladder Infections
Where do bladder infections come from? Back in the ’70s, longitudinal studies of women over...
Why Is Selling Salmonella-Tainted Chicken Legal?
When researchers last year at the Emerging Pathogens Institute ranked foodborne pathogens to figure out...
Why Is It Legal to Sell Unsafe Meat?
Most of the U.S. population suffers an acute diarrheal illness every year. According to a...
Supreme Court Case: Meat Industry Sues to Keep Downed Animals in Food Supply
This week I participated in a press briefing to discuss National Meat Association v. Harris,...
Cantaloupe and Listeria: An Estimated 85% of Cases Are from Deli Meats, Not Melons
More than a dozen deaths have been reported in the national outbreak of listeriosis linked...
