Selected Articles by Barry Estabrook

In a Misguided Effort to Weed out the Bad Eggs, the Food Safety Bill Punishes the Safest Farmers in the Country

Posted by Barry on September 7, 2010

It’s been nearly a month since the nationwide recall of 550 million eggs, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) still hasn’t figured out where the salmonella that sickened 1,470 people originated.
Well, I know where it originated, and I am about to reveal it here, both to save the FDA further trouble and to warn [...]

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New Research Reveals Why Factory Farms Have Become Superbug Factories–and Why Worse is yet to Come

Posted by Barry on February 19, 2010

Along with their usual rations of grain and prepared feed, factory-farmed hogs and chickens in the United States also dine on a steady diet of antibiotics. The animals are given the drugs, not to prevent or cure illness, but simply because low-level doses of antibiotics stimulate them to grow faster than untreated animals. This may [...]

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Selected Articles by Barry Estabrook

In a Misguided Effort to Weed out the Bad Eggs, the Food Safety Bill Punishes the Safest Farmers in the Country

New Research Reveals Why Factory Farms Have Become Superbug Factories–and Why Worse is yet to Come

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