Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
The chicken AND the egg?
There has been a recall of hundreds of thousands of chicken eggs from one farm in Iowa. The reason for the recall is a salmonella outbreak reported in states as far as California. There is scientific evidence that the salmonella bacteria actually originated in the chicken and was passed along to the egg during its development within the fowl. Interesting. With the few news reports I've seen on the mass sickness, not one journalist has asked, how could a chicken get and sustain salmonella?
This frighteningly resembles the swine flu that swept the world last year. Only a few reports arose on the quality of the pig farm where the bug was thought to originate, and few questions followed. So how do those chickens in Iowa live? In what conditions are they forced to survive? Knowing that a majority of the eggs marked for recall are found in discount grocers, I'm willing to bet the chickens have several thousand cage mates and live in their own feces.
More actual research to come.
This frighteningly resembles the swine flu that swept the world last year. Only a few reports arose on the quality of the pig farm where the bug was thought to originate, and few questions followed. So how do those chickens in Iowa live? In what conditions are they forced to survive? Knowing that a majority of the eggs marked for recall are found in discount grocers, I'm willing to bet the chickens have several thousand cage mates and live in their own feces.
More actual research to come.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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