ANIMAL FORUM

> Public money used to conceal meat cancer risk
>
> http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/pr veggie/ALL/1683//
>
> A major new scientific report has produced convincing evidence that
> eating red meat increases the risk of bowel cancer. But instead of
> alerting consumers to the risks, the government is helping to fund
> propaganda offensives by meat industry bodies aimed at concealing the
> bad news.
>
> The Meat and Livestock Commission (MLC) and the red meat promotional
> body north of the border - Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) - both
> expressed alarm ahead of the publication of the World Cancer Research
> Funds new report.
>
> In June, the Meat and Livestock Commission revealed that it was
> involved in a propaganda offensive aimed at doctors to discourage them
> from giving out advice based on the new scientific evidence.
>
> Richard Lowe, chief executive of the MLC, told a conference of meat
> processors:
>
> Our guess is that meat and meat products will be presented [in the
> WCRF report] as having convincing evidence of links to cancer. Meat
> bodies now are lobbying on a combined response and targeting the
> healthcare profession because the danger is from doctors giving advice
> based on this.
> More recently, the QMS declared:
>
> There are considerable industry fears that a report from the World
> Cancer Research Fund due out in November 07 will again use
> epidemiological research to raise concerns over the role of red meat
> and may go so far as to move it into a category of probably linked
> with bowel cancer from its current position with the charity of
> possibly linked with bowel cancer.
> The admission came in what turned out to be a successful application
> by QMS to Scottish Enterprise for a grant to promote the consumption
> of red meat.
>
> The WCRF report is a follow-up to its highly influential 600-page
> dossier published 10 years ago. The 1997 report was itself bad news
> for the public image of meat, eggs and milk.
>
> Says Animal Aid Director Andrew Tyler:
>
> The tobacco industry fought for years to suppress the evidence that
> smoking causes cancer. They put their profits before public health
> and, as a result, are responsible for the sickness and deaths of
> millions of people. And now, the meat industry - when faced with
> accumulating evidence of serious human disease caused by their
> products - is resorting to the same dirty tricks. It seems that their
> strategy is to bombard not just consumers but doctors and health
> workers with misleading information about the cancer risks associated
> with animal products. Even more extraordinary is that public money is
> being used to fund this propaganda.

> Gloria wrote in message
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>> Public money used to conceal meat cancer risk
>>
>> http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/pr veggie/ALL/1683//
>>
>> A major new scientific report has produced convincing evidence that
>> eating red meat increases the risk of bowel cancer. But instead of

>
> pearl wrote in message
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> > Gloria wrote in message
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> >> Public money used to conceal meat cancer risk
> >>
> >> http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/pr veggie/ALL/1683//
> >>
> >> A major new scientific report has produced convincing evidence that
> >> eating red meat increases the risk of bowel cancer. But instead of
>
>
> >
> It seems to me then than the only way we can live for ever is to eat
> nothing.

>
>pearl wrote in message
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>> Gloria wrote in message
>> news:aa04j395qkn32qbcdqc19220g41geuadpg@4ax.com...
>>> Public money used to conceal meat cancer risk
>>>
>>> http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/pr veggie/ALL/1683//
>>>
>>> A major new scientific report has produced convincing evidence that
>>> eating red meat increases the risk of bowel cancer. But instead of
>
>
> >
>It seems to me then than the only way we can live for ever is to eat
>nothing.

>
>Gloria wrote in message
>news:aa04j395qkn32qbcdqc19220g41geuadpg@4ax.com...
>> Public money used to conceal meat cancer risk
>>
>> http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/pr veggie/ALL/1683//
>>
>> A major new scientific report has produced convincing evidence that
>> eating red meat increases the risk of bowel cancer. But instead of
>> alerting consumers to the risks, the government is helping to fund
>> propaganda offensives by meat industry bodies aimed at concealing the
>> bad news.
>>
>>snip<
>
>This is far more serious. Look at the figures.
>
>http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-06-2007/0004698884&EDATE=
>
>
>New Study Reveals MRSA Bacteria Common Among Pigs and Farm Workers
>
>
> Earlier European Studies Suggested Pigs as Source of Human Infection;
> Congress Needs to Compel Government Action
>
> WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new study published in
>Veterinary Microbiology found methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
>(MRSA) prevalent in Canadian pig farms and pig farmers, pointing to animal
>agriculture as a source of the deadly bacteria.
>
> The Veterinary Microbiology study (Khanna et al. 2007) is the first to
>show that North American pig farms and farmers commonly carry MRSA. The
>study looked for MRSA in 285 pigs in 20 Ontario farms. It found MRSA at 45%
>of farms (9/20) and in nearly one in four pigs (71/285). One in five pig
>farmers studied (5/25) also were found to carry MRSA, a much higher rate
>than in the general North American population. The strains of MRSA bacteria
>found in Ontario pigs and pig farmers included a strain common to human
>MRSA infections in Canada.
>
> An estimated nine million Canadian hogs will be imported into the
>United States this year.
>
> A study published last month in the Journal of the American Medical
>Association (JAMA) (Klevens et al. 2007) estimated almost 100,000 MRSA
>infections in 2005, and nearly 19,000 deaths in the United States. In
>comparison, HIV/AIDS killed 17,000 people that year.
>
> Until recently, conventional wisdom had MRSA pegged as an opportunistic
>infection occurring mainly in hospitals. The JAMA study found that even
>healthy people are developing MRSA infections. The Veterinary Microbiology
>study points to pig farms as a possible source of these resistant
>infections, as have earlier European studies.
>
> Members of the Keep Antibiotics Working coalition (KAW), including
>medical, agriculture, and environmental experts, are calling for Congress
>to compel the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to study whether the
>use of human antibiotics in animal agriculture is contributing to the
>reported surge in MRSA infections and deaths in the United States.
>
> Identifying and controlling community sources of MRSA is a public
>health priority of the first order, said Richard Wood, Executive Director
>of Food Animal Concerns Trust and Steering Committee Chair of Keep
>Antibiotics Working. Are livestock farmers and farms in the United States
>also sources? We dont know for sure, because the U.S. government is not
>systematically testing U.S. livestock for MRSA.
>
> Last summer, when we raised the MRSA issue, the FDA told us that it
>had no plans to sample U.S. livestock to see if they carry MRSA, said
>David Wallinga, MD, Director of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade
>Policys Food and Health Program. Given the latest science that hog farms
>may generate MRSA, we need Congress to give FDA and other relevant agencies
>the necessary funding and a sense of urgency. Sampling needs to be done as
>soon as possible.
>
> U.S. veterinarians are documented as carriers of MRSA. A 2005 survey of
>attendees at an international veterinary convention in Baltimore, MD, who
>were tested for MRSA found that of the 27 who tested positive, 23 were from
>the United States.
>
> In Europe, MRSA has been shown to be transmitted from pigs to farmers,
>their families, veterinarians, and hospital staff treating farm-infected
>patients. The same pig strain that was detected in Canada has been
>associated in Europe with serious human illness including skin, wound,
>breast, and heart infections, as well as pneumonia.
>
> The heavy use of antibiotics in industrialized livestock operations can
>select for resistant bacteria, such as MRSA. A study in Europe documented
>that pig farms routinely using antibiotics were more likely to have MRSA
>than farms with limited antibiotics use.
>
> Proposed federal legislation, The Preservation of Antibiotics for
>Medical Treatment Act, sponsored by Senate Health Committee Chairman Edward
>Kennedy (D-MA) and Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Susan Collins (R-ME),
>Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Jack Reed (D-RI) in the Senate (S. 549) and Rep.
>Louise Slaughter (D-NY), the only microbiologist in Congress, and 34 other
>House members in the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 962), would phase
>out the use of antibiotics that are important in human medicine as animal
>feed additives within two years. The American Medical Association, the
>Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the American Academy of
>Pediatrics are among the more than 350 advocacy groups nationwide that have
>endorsed this bill.
>
>
> Citation
>
> Khanna et al. 2007. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
>colonization in pigs and pig farmers. Veterinary Microbiology
>doi:10.1016/j.vetmic.2007.10.006.
>

> On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:14:37 GMT, Richard Corbett
> wrote:
>
>>
>>pearl wrote in message
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>>> Gloria wrote in message
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>>>> Public money used to conceal meat cancer risk
>>>>
>>>> http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/pr veggie/ALL/1683//
>>>>
>>>> A major new scientific report has produced convincing evidence that
>>>> eating red meat increases the risk of bowel cancer. But instead of
>>
>>
>> >>
>>It seems to me then than the only way we can live for ever is to eat
>>nothing.
>
> Or go veggie and start looking after yourself and the planet.
>
>

>
>Gloria wrote in message
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>> On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:14:37 GMT, Richard Corbett
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>pearl wrote in message
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>>>> Gloria wrote in message
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>>>>> Public money used to conceal meat cancer risk
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/pr veggie/ALL/1683//
>>>>>
>>>>> A major new scientific report has produced convincing evidence that
>>>>> eating red meat increases the risk of bowel cancer. But instead of
>>>
>>>
>>> >>>
>>>It seems to me then than the only way we can live for ever is to eat
>>>nothing.
>>
>> Or go veggie and start looking after yourself and the planet.
>>
>>
>Makes you fart a lot though.

>
>.............and who can prove that plants feel no pain?