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...hormones, while battery chickens are often similarly drugged. Though there is no indication that fish can harbor the bse prion, it is hardly reassuring to know that much of it is artificially farmed and fed with the same meat-based meal that has been outlawed for cows and other livestock. No wonder many Europeans agree with Berlin housewife Hannelore Schröder that they might as well stick with beef. "What else am I to eat?" she asks. "Pork is full of antibiotics, poultry is full of hormones...
...make matters worse, antimicrobials have been introduced into hand creams, household cleansers, livestock feed. Not long ago, the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine announced plans to withdraw approval of the use of fluoroquinolones in poultry feed. Of particular concern was campylobacter, a common cause of diarrheal disease. And the Minnesota department of public health made headlines when it surveyed poultry on sale in the state's supermarkets and found 88% of the samples were contaminated by campylobacter, 20% of which were fluoroquinolone resistant...
...belief" in conservative values, as though a black judge must be a Democratic liberal. Likewise, a Hispanic applicant may not represent the thoughts and culture of his or her heritage any better than a white student, and someone from Iowa may know more about the stock market than the livestock...
Despite these restrictions, last month corn exported from the United States to Japan and meant for human and livestock consumption was also found to include some of the StarLink strain. Even without the danger of an adverse reaction in humans, the unexpected occurrence of modified genomes is an enormous ecological problem. Yet this time, because of the suspected threat to human health, the matter was significantly more than "theoretically" wrong. Despite a ban on the use of a GM organism in the United States, a possible health threat found its way into the food supply of another country from American...
Could other substances besides PCBs and DDE influence sexual development? Perhaps, Rogan says. But few compounds are as persistent and pervasive. Hormones given to livestock, for instance--another frequently invoked possibility--break down very quickly in the body. "I have not studied the effects of hormones in beef or dairy cattle," Rogan says. "It's not something I'm running out to study either...