By DR Douglass
Want some antibiotics? Don’t waste time with your doctor — just head to the supermarket.
You’ll find a wide selection of drugs… but they won’t be in the pharmacy section.
They’ll be in the meats department.
The USDA’s own Office of the Inspector General released a report showing that American beef is routinely contaminated with drug residue, toxic heavy metals, and actual poison.
If you’re looking for a recall, don’t hold your breath. Even when the government knows they’re contaminated, the meat is often shipped off and sold before the test results come back!
The report lists four specific instances in 2007 and 2008 when tests revealed enough veterinary drugs in meat to cause stomach, nerve, or skin problems in the humans who might eat it… but there wasn’t a single attempt to recall it.
But when it comes right down to it, the drugs in the meat are the least of your worries. Toxic heavy metals are routinely found in the meat sold to you and your family. Don’t expect that to change any time soon, either. Because as it turns out, no guidelines exist that ban things like copper and arsenic from your meat.
“In 2008, a producer self-reported that arsenic had been mistakenly ingested by his cattle, and voluntarily withheld contaminated animals from the food supply after they were slaughtered and tested positive for arsenic poisoning,” the report reads.
“If the producer had not acted voluntarily, FSIS would not have had a basis to stop distribution of this meat once it was in commerce.”
The FSIS is the Food Safety and Inspection Service, the deliberately crippled arm of the FDA that can only watch as arsenic, copper, and other toxins enter the food chain.
Think this is going to get better? Think again: The feds are CUTTING $10 million from the USDA’s meat and poultry inspection budget.
Happy eating.
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