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Related: About this forumWhy the First Antibiotic-Resistant Superbug Found in Food Is a Big Deal
Remember that your gut is a teeming community of microbes. Once the carbapenem-resistant bacteria gets into the food supply and into our guts, it can pass those resistance genes onto the bacteria in us. And now there's a reservoir of carbapenem resistance in your body, laying low until you get a bad infection in the future. And as much as we hate to think about it, fecal bacteria sometimes contaminates our food, so resistance genes can keep spreading outward.
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Surveillance of antibiotics resistance has so far focused on hospitals, but this finding means we might need to look more carefully at the food supply, too.
http://gizmodo.com/why-the-first-antibiotic-resistant-superbug-found-in-fo-1589997175
Warpy
(110,908 posts)in inhumane factory farming operations is what is doing this.
If you eat meat, cook it thoroughly. Use a meat thermometer to make sure. Yes, you like it barely dead and dripping with blood. If you must take the chance with your life, at least don't feed it to your kids.
If I eat red meat (like once a year), I choose the grass fed stuff that has never seen a feed lot operation. There is a lot less fat and it's a lot tougher, so it requires long, moist cooking instead of a brief introduction to a BBQ grill.