Posted on 12/19/2013 12:04:43 PM PST by chessplayer
A report released Thursday indicates that just about all chicken sold in U.S. stores contains harmful bacteria, and nearly half are tainted with a so-called superbug that's resistant to antibiotics.
The Consumer Reports study, its most comprehensive to date on poultry, tested raw chicken breasts purchased at retail outlets nationwide for six bacteria, then checked for antibiotic resistance. The results showed nearly half of the samples were contaminated with at least one bacterium resistant to three or more classes of antibiotics, what's known as a superbug. Slightly more than 10 percent were tainted with two superbugs.
That finding is cause for alarm, said Urvashi Rangan, a toxicologist and executive director of Consumer Reports National Research Center.
"We're in a public health crisis," Rangan said. "Pharmaceutical companies are not making new antibiotics."
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There is this thing called “cooking.”
Cook it thoroughly and wash your hands after handling and there is not an issue.
I don’t blame you one little bit, either.
As long as you don’t serve/eat it rare, and don’t let raw contact cooked it is a non-issue.
This could only be news to the vegan types who want everybody to look as much like concentration camp refugees as they do. That’s why you wash chicken off before anything else and then cook it thoroughly. Letting it soak in salty water before cooking also helps and enhances the cooked flavor. Anyone who’s ever been through a poultry processing facility knows that what comes out of the plant is dripping in bacteria.
NICE< Great idea
“My uncle used to love me but she died. Chicken ain’t chicken til it’s lickin good and fried. Keep on the sunny side, my uncle used to love me but she died” -— Roger Miller -—
Dang Me Dang me..
Oh wait..
A nice pie crust is preferable but hey, It works pretty well for leftovers.
Almost none, if it eats, it poops. If you want to eat it, you’re gonna have to deal with the offal.
Food comes from dirt and poop. Animals live in or on the dirt and poop in the dirt. Organic farmers even spread the poop around the field on purpose.
Dirt and poop are full of germs. Wash your hands and everything else. They should teach this in schools.
It will still be on your hands, and therefore all over your body in short order. When (not if) your skin is breached, it is then that you may have the opportunity to find out if it matters.
No surprise. It’s a good thing to remind people, though—and there are those who need reminding.
Cook it. Fry it, grill it, do anything but whatever these new-age yuppies and hipsters do to it and everything will be fine.
Most Americans are so trashy today, that they don’t even wash their hands after defecating or handling fixtures in public restrooms. Have fun. Enjoy the slide...and the plagues.
Well, that's a stretch.
I'd forgotten about that. I liked it. Imagine a time when pork was cheaper than chicken [both of which are less cheap all the time].
Mr. Richard Fedder from Ft. Lee, New Jersey writes.....
I have not ate chicken for three years it’s the blood type diet I’ve been on when I smell it cooking its nasty not like I remember how it use to smell when mom was cooking it in the past
Ok. Enjoy your chicken in the future.
A friend of mine once told me that new vets fresh out
of school would often work for chicken processors as
inspectors because they couldn’t afford to open their
own practices. When a chicken with a cancer would come
down the line they would cut out the cancerous part
and send the rest down the line.
So I suppose the moral of the story is BUY WHOLE CHICKENS.
Then cook the hell out of them.
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