David Kirby Tells What USDA Found In Meat
Written by Vegetarian Star on April 17th, 2010 in Food & Drink, Journalists.
Animal Factory by David Kirby
David Kirby, investigative journalist and author of Animal Factory, has just skimmed over a report on the USDA’s “National Residue Program for Cattle.”
According to Kirby’s summary in the Huffington Post, this report would have received an “F” from 100% of teachers.
Not only has the program not established tolerant levels for substances in meat, it has failed to recall meat after the product has been confirmed with an excess of some of these substances.
A few highlights from Kirby’s summary:
- The five main substances found were Flunixin, Penicillin, Arsenic, Copper and Ivermectin and effects of ingesting these range from as mild as diarrhea to renal dysfunction to neurotoxicity.
- In 2008, a shipment of US beef was rejected by Mexican inspectors because it tested above the Mexican tolerance level for copper in beef. The food was sold and consumed in the US, where no levels are set.
- Over 90 percent of all residues detected were in dairy cows and veal calves. Dairy cows are routinely ground into hamburger and veal calves are often fed antibiotic-laden, unmarketable “waste milk” from dairy cows undergoing treatment for infections.
- Cooking meat destroys pathogens, but not residues, which heat may actually break down “into components that are more harmful to consumers.
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