Reply #1: What about the MRSA in our pork? [View All]

[BanzaiBonnie]

Prepare to be outraged by the work of University of Iowa professor Tara Smith and veteran Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter Andrew Schneider. Prepare also to give up industrially produced pork, if you're still eating (or, even worse, cooking with) the stuff.

First, some background. No one disputes that a bacteria called MRSA -- methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- has become a major public-health menace.

According to a recent post on Schneider's Secret Ingredients blog, the Center for Disease Control reported 94,360 "invasive MRSA infections" in the United States in 2005 -- of which 18,650 resulted in death. More people now die of MRSA than of AIDs.

http://www.grist.org/article/meat-wagon-filthy-swine/