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Superbugs in pork
- Thread starter steve
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Interesting article.
We tried raising pigs years ago....didn't like the meat enough to ever want to do it again. We MUCH prefer lamb.
The pigs were friendly, and had personality, but they also had a taste for the chickens that would get in the pen to help eat the pig food.
We don't buy the stuff either, and only eat it incidentally at pot lucks n such.
Looks like a hit piece on Walmart rather than pork in general. I’m a bit surprised they only tested the pork. The general conclusion wasn’t to stop buying pork, just stop buying from Walmart’s in the mid Atlantic region until they start sourcing from humane pork farms.
It’s an animal welfare group, more of a hit piece on eating anything with a face.
I think that this is mostly a camels nose under the tent wall, but the reason that I posted it is that there seems to have been found superbugs in some pork. This might be the start of a trend in pork?
Will more be found in other meat? I think that we can count on the anti-meat people to keep us posted.
I think that this is mostly a camels nose under the tent wall, but the reason that I posted it is that there seems to have been found superbugs in some pork. This might be the start of a trend in pork?
Will more be found in other meat? I think that we can count on the anti-meat people to keep us posted.
I have a twelve volt cooler and a crockpot that runs off of an inverter.
Breakfast is a banana mashed up in some plain yogurt with some frozen blueberries. The blueberries don’t stay frozen and they last about a week in the cooler.
The crockpot I treat like the perpetual stews that some of the indians had. I just boil it every day and keep adding veggies, rice and beans to keep it going. As long as I boil it each day it doesn’t spoil. I keep meat in the cooler and cut up about an eighth of a pound and put the hot stew over it. Often it’s steak tartare. Steak lasts the longest in the cooler with the help of some added vinegar.
Good Dave’s non-gmo bread or the equivalent is readily available nowadays. Good cheeses for sandwiches.
I can generally get to a grocery store about once a week.
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Thanks, your routine does give me ideas. Especially about preparing a long term meal that would last, say a week at a time. I don't have access to refrigerators or heating so that's why I am stuck with ham sandwiches everyday. I tried turkey but they are really dry. I would prefer to eat a better meal especially around lunch but I don't have time and ham seems to be the best option. Not the greatest but the best. Thanks for the ideas.
I agree, but I didn’t post this to further that point. Most people have made their decision about unclean meats.
This posting was simply about superbugs that have been found in pork.
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Cool, I'll check it out.
I am not a fan of antibiotics, in the first place. In my food, meh! No biggie! But taken orally or injected,....only as a last resort.
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I checked it out. I'm getting one. That looks like it will work. Excellent. Thanks for the tip.
No this isn't a problem limited to Walmart, nor is it why God prohibited pork in the Torah. These superbugs are a symptom of the confinement system used to raise pigs that entails keeping them in filthy conditions and feeding them various growth promotants and antibiotics. There have been others studies likewise finding very high levels of resistant bugs from other retailers; this is a consistent, long term problem.
But if you buy traditionally raised pastured pork that has been fed cleanly and not medicated you won't have these problems. Not only are such pigs not major carriers for superbugs (if at all), pastured pigs also shed much lower levels of more common bugs like salmonella (something you can get from things like beef and chicken too, pork isn't uniquely prone to bad bugs).
But if you buy traditionally raised pastured pork that has been fed cleanly and not medicated you won't have these problems. Not only are such pigs not major carriers for superbugs (if at all), pastured pigs also shed much lower levels of more common bugs like salmonella (something you can get from things like beef and chicken too, pork isn't uniquely prone to bad bugs).
Buy a 1kg or 2lb block of hard cheese (e.g. cheddar, whatever is cheap) and a bag of apples. Both will last a week at room temperature, and the cheese only tastes better the longer it stays warm. Hard cheese was invented to preserve milk.
Break off a hunk of cheese, grab a handful of apples, and eat a bite of cheese and a bite of apple until you're full. Cheese and apple eaten together are delicious.
Five lunches for minimal cost, no preparation, no need for utensils (just eat with your hands), and a balanced diet of nutritious fresh fruit, protein and fat, with no carbohydrates.
Vary it by adding some bread (to eat over the first 2 days of the week), changing the fruit, adding some beef jerky or whatever as an occasional treat, try different cheese... It's a basic staple to build on.
If you want tomato sandwiches in summer, buy bread rolls and tomatoes, again eat a bite of bread and a bite of tomato. Tomato sandwiches without making the sandwiches!
That's how I used to eat at my last job. Everybody in the tearoom thought I was crazy, but I ate well.
I'm not recommending this to Steve to eat 24/7, but I do recommend it for lunches!