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Pig lovers, rejoice: Impossible pork and sausage are here

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Pop quiz: What’s the most popular meat in Europe and Asia? No, it’s not beef; that’s just the most popular meat in the U.S. It’s pork, by a wide margin.https://mashable.com/article/impossible-pork-sausage/

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CBS 60 Minutes – Is overuse of antibiotics on farms worsening the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria?

The farms he wanted to visit were in Montana, where the slaughterhouse told him the pigs came from. But to his surprise, Lindquist, who was conducting the investigation, was flatly turned down.

Public health officials investigating a drug-resistant salmonella outbreak in 2015 still don’t know the exact source after a pork-industry lobbying group on behalf of the farmers prevented them from visiting farms that provided pigs to a contaminated slaughterhouse

 

Lesley Stahl

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/is-overuse-of-antibiotics-on-farms-worsening-the-spread-of-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-60-minutes-2020-01-05/

 

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You’ll never guess who helped fund that controversial ‘keep eating red meat’ study

Annals of Internal Medicine issues a correction about researcher’s undisclosed conflict of interest linking chief researcher to the meat industry

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/07/youll-never-guess-who-helped-fund-that-controversial-keep-eating-red-meat-study/

 

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