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nytimes.com - 3/9/2009

Op-Ed Columnist - The Inflection Is Near?

— nytimes.com — Sometimes the satirical newspaper The Onion is so right on, I can’t resist quoting from it. Consider... this faux article from June 2005 about America’s addiction to Chinese exports: FENGHUA, China — Chen Hsien, an employee of Fenghua Ningbo Plastic ... (more) Op-Ed Columnist - The Inflection Is Near?

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nytimes.com - 3/8/2009

Op-Ed Columnist: The Inflection Is Near?

— nytimes.com — What if the crisis of 2008 represents something more fundamental than a recession, and 2008 was when... we hit the wall — when Mother Nature and the market both said: “No more.” > (more) Op-Ed Columnist: The Inflection Is Near?

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nytimes.com - 3/16/2009

Op-Ed Columnist - Pathogens in Our Pork

— nytimes.com — We don’t add antibiotics to baby food and Cocoa Puffs so that children get fewer ear infections.... That’s because we understand that the overuse of antibiotics is already creating “superbugs” resistant to medication. Yet we continue to allow ... (more) Op-Ed Columnist - Pathogens in Our Pork

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Digest - News: Flesh-eating bacteria, wallet-eating food companies, and eating, righteously
The Ethicurean — ... , a flesh-eating, antibiotic resistant bacteria is killing 18,000 Americans a year and is carried by 45% of farmers and 49% of pigs in Iowa. Nicholas Kristof’s piece concludes that we may be getting more than we bargained for in creating a food system that delivers cheap bacon. (New York Times) ...

Big Pig strikes back
Grist - the Latest from Grist — By Tom Laskawy In the wake of Nick Kristof's two recent columns on MRSA infections among hog farmers, Obamafoodorama found evidence of Big Pig (the National Pork Board) conspiring with the CDC in prepping its response. And after all that, this is the best they could come up with: "They are making a huge leap attributing MRSA in these people to hogs," says Angela DeMirjyn, science communications manager for the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC). The pork organization has been researching MRSA for some time, says ...

New Bill Would Crack Down on Agricultural Antibiotic Misuse
Union of Concerned Scientists — ... for Kristof's March 15 column, "Pathogens in Our Pork," and here for his March 12 column, "Our Pigs, Our Food, Our Health."] ### The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading U.S. science-based nonprofit organization working for a healthy environment and a safer world. Founded in 1969, UCS is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also has offices in Berkeley, Chicago and Washington, D.C.

St. Louis Chef and Farmer Serve Up Antibiotic-Free Cuisine
Union of Concerned Scientists — ... , "Pathogens in Our Pork," UCS estimates that animal agriculture accounts for 70 percent of all antibiotics used in the United States. (For Kristof's March 12 column, "Our Pigs, Our Food, Our Health," click here .) When continually exposed to antibiotics, bacteria develop resistance to the drugs. Regular use of antibiotics in animal feed in CAFOs (confined animal feeding operations) turn these massive, overcrowded facilities into prime breeding grounds for antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which can be passed to farmers, their families, their neighbors and consumers through air, ...