Drug Resistant Bacteria in Half of US Meat.

A new study from the journal “Clinical Infectious Diseases” reveals that 47% of America’s meat is tainted with drug resistant staph.

Researchers found drug resistant staph on beef, turkey, pork, and chicken bought at different grocery stores around the country.

Due to over exposure to antibiotics in factory farms, the staph bacteria have developed resistance to three major types of antibiotic treatment. Doctors worry mostly about the Methicillan-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain commonly referred to as MRSA.

People are warned to handle raw meat with care, cook throughly, and sterilize every surface in your kitchen after cooking.

Of course, this could all have been prevented.  If we weren’t feeding 35 million pounds of antibiotics a year to animals on factory farms we would not have these superbugs. More importantly, if we weren’t keeping animals in cramped and filthy conditions where open wounds easily become infected we wouldn’t need to give them antibiotics at all.