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...nearly two decades, my colleagues and I have, with limited funds, conducted problem-solving and fundamental studies on the bacteria used in the manufacture of various foods. Special attention has been given to the lactic-acid bacteria, a group of organisms that have been useful to man for thousands of years in preserving foods by natural fermentation...
...fermentation industry has benefited from this work; and our present study of sourdough lactic-acid bacteria, solicited not by us but by the USDA, is designed to assist the baking industry...
...that livestock can be watered, rain can cause heavy manure runoffs that in turn pollute the water supply. Waste materials equivalent to those produced by 100 million people, for example, have been measured in the Missouri River between Omaha and Kansas City. Such enormous manure runoffs produce disease-carrying bacteria and have so increased the nitrate and phosphate levels in some waterways that algae proliferate, choking off other forms of life. Toxic elements in manure are believed responsible for killing 1,500,000 game fish in nine states...
...once eaten by a cow, lodge in one of its stomachs, the rumen. There they take the place of roughage, reducing the animal's need for hay. Such cattle subsequently produce up to 40% less manure than those fed conventionally. Another scheme calls for injecting manure with special bacteria to hasten decomposition...
Powerful Parasite. The classic disease is caused by Vibrio cholera bacteria, comma-shaped microbes that multiply in the intestine and thrive in contaminated water supplies. The bug responsible for the present pandemic, a strain first identified in 1906 at the Tor quarantine station in Egypt, is prolific and can quickly cause death if not treated promptly. It multiplies rapidly in the gut, producing millions of offspring in a matter of hours. The bacteria trigger a devastating diarrhea that can drain off as much as 15% of the body fluids in eight hours, depleting the body of water and essential salts...