Can Meat Give You MRSA?

Juniper Russo reports on how commercial (factory-farm) meat can give you MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

http://news.yahoo.com/meat-industry-spreads-mrsa-vegetarian-now-154600574.html

The good news is, if you cook your own meat and get it well done, you'll kill the resistant bacteria that are actually in the meat. You will still, however, be ingesting lots of heat-altered saturated fats, and residues of various drugs that were fed to the animal...and it's healthier to buy a leaner, more humanely raised animal from a True Green small family farm, in any case.

Or you could go vegetarian...actually milk is full of germs and residues too (not to mention saturated fat), but you can get adequate amounts of protein and B-vitamins from eggs alone. (Actually, healthy people can synthesize adequate amounts of B-vitamins from a totally vegan diet, without eggs, or desiccated liver supplements, or other nutritional boosts, for two to five years after the last time they ate meat. Not every body is healthy enough to do this; most are.)

And if you read Juniper's article, you'll be boosting her page-view royalties and helping a deserving single mother raise a healthy, though quirky, vegetarian child. That's why she keeps publishing articles even when they arouse the kind of hatespew I saw in the comments below the article. Please read the article, and post a nice comment.