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- inactive, on 12/02/2007, -5/+63Cooking it properly will still kill it in any event.
Heat-resistant bacterium are the ones we should be scared of - iDiggIt42, on 12/02/2007, -3/+55If only we had a method of heating said chicken to remove this bacteria!
- Albionshores, on 12/02/2007, -2/+44Ahhh...but is it deep-fat fryer resistant? In the face of this new biological threat surely only one nation can step up to the plate and save the world. They've been relentless in their preparation; a country dedicated to deepfried pizza, mars bars and pakora.
If antibiotics can't stop it then I say "unleash the Scottish!" - knobtwiddler, on 12/02/2007, -1/+30damn, i'm gona have to stop drinking those raw chicken milkshakes :(
- djvchris, on 12/02/2007, -0/+20Uhoh.
EAT MOR BEEF ? - allaboutdatiki, on 12/02/2007, -1/+19I gave up red meat. Now I need to give up chicken, too?
What's next, Twinkies? - bwdd, on 12/02/2007, -1/+18You don't eat chicken much, do you?
I think you cook it first. - WordsnCollision, on 12/02/2007, -0/+16Finally a cure for those nasty antibiotics! What? Umm, never mind...
- Easyoffbam, on 12/02/2007, -0/+12Yeah, NZ FTW!
- Sornos, on 12/02/2007, -0/+11Twinkies. The eternal food of the gods.
- Gimpishi, on 12/02/2007, -0/+10Yep, ignore all the vegetables, fish, and grains....skip to artificial twinkies
- Haidoken, on 12/02/2007, -1/+11Shh, careful. The Chick-Fil-A cows can hear you.
- motbob, on 12/02/2007, -0/+9Guys, you are missing the point of the article. The point is not that chicken bacteria is getting through the sterilization process and onto our plates. Rather, the point is that widespread use of antibiotics on chicken bacteria is currently producing strains of bacteria that are not only resistant to the antibiotics used on chicken, but also to the antibiotics used on humans.
The point is that, down the road, our widespread use of antibiotics on chickens could come back to bite us in the ass. - inactive, on 12/02/2007, -0/+9First they prove Ribena doesn't have 4x the Vitamin C of Oranges and now this. Seriously our schools should stop letting kids do these kind of science experiments
- mikeon, on 12/02/2007, -1/+9Don't they feed cow's feed made from chicken?
- bwdd, on 12/02/2007, -1/+8And that time, it was sarcasm.
You don't read much, do you? - adml_shake, on 12/02/2007, -0/+7Actually the main problem is the over use of antibiotics in this country. Nobody seems to tough anything out for a few days anymore, they run to the doctor every time they get a headache or a scrape and demand some pill that will make every thing better. And now were starting to see the results of that.
- demonsnake69, on 12/02/2007, -1/+8Well, I guess I'll have to resort to cannibalism again.
- Gabberwok, on 12/02/2007, -1/+7Twinkies look like giant bacteria already... mmm... nucleoplasm.
- bcat, on 12/02/2007, -0/+6Yeah, I've heard that too.
- Kurisuku, on 12/02/2007, -1/+7FISH!? MERCURY POISONING NOOOOOO!
- Gabberwok, on 12/02/2007, -3/+8Cooking it properly kills most bacteria, but never all of them, and since when do you trust the typical restaurant to cook everything "properly"? All it takes is an extra thick piece of chicken breast with a little bit left raw on the inside, and then if the chicken sits for too long at around 37º C that small population of bacteria becomes big enough to cause an infection. (On that note, never eat at a place that keeps its food "warm", it should be hot - i.e. >42º C - or cold, nothing in between.)
- caerwyn, on 12/02/2007, -0/+5Once again, non-evolutionists demonstrate their great wisdom, intellect and complete inability to *detect* humor...
(HINT: when the OP has a "wink" emoticon in it, you should look carefully for signs of humor before attempting to make supposedly witty comments) - Gabberwok, on 12/02/2007, -2/+7Fresh eggs with no bacteria? Seriously, with a name like moreintelligent you should know better. The wholesome goodness of mother nature is perfectly fine with your eggs being chock full of salmonella - mother nature doesn't play favorites with multicellular organisms. Leave farm fresh eggs out at room temperature for too long and you'll get bacteria there as well, especially if you don't use antibiotics. Just to clarify, I'm against the use of antibiotics in farm animals because it interferes with their main use (curing people), but I'm also against the blatant stupidity and misinformation that is behind the organic food movement.
- sgtbutterscotch, on 12/02/2007, -0/+4Who the hell is the Mrs. Madison you keep speaking of?
- AceLy, on 12/02/2007, -0/+4Damn, that's hardcore.
- JohnDakota, on 12/02/2007, -1/+5A highschool student conducted these experiments. She probably doesn't know the first thing about solubility of these drugs in whatever solvent she was using. The antibiotics that she used are not necessarily soluble at neutral pH in water. It depends on the form she purchased (salt, or hydrated,or raw). As a result the actual antibiotic concentration in her growth mediums was most likely far below that required to actually have an inhibitory effect.
It makes zero sense that treatment with farm antibiotics would cause resistant bacteria to antibiotics that are completely different structure, and specificity.
Chalk this up to PHEAR!!! Fear sells. - Shawn4168, on 12/02/2007, -2/+6I was wondering how long it would take before you folks showed up.
- MoreIntelligent, on 12/02/2007, -0/+3By raising your own chickens and collecting the eggs yourself you are not allowing them to sit in refrigeration for weeks at a time until you go and get them at the store, Hence they have a much greater chance of not allowing the bacteria to grow.
Hone grown eggs are usually used within a few days and the ones you buy at the store can sit there for up to 3 weeks or longer. Even tho refrigeration is used it does not stop the bacteria from growing. Same with the chicken sitting in the package waiting to be bought.
I can/do agree with your view of the antibiotics. - rush378, on 12/02/2007, -1/+4Hm? Wake me up when we discover cooking-resistant bacteria in our food. This stuff is pretty sensationalist.
- hmcook87, on 12/02/2007, -0/+3I'm always reminded of a comment made by one bart simpson: "Dear Lord, we cooked all this food ourselves, so thanks for nothing"
- IllBeBack, on 12/02/2007, -0/+3Deep-fried pizza? Wow, never heard of that. Sounds tasty - is Pizza Hut selling that?
- maliath, on 12/02/2007, -0/+3There are a wide variety of different classes of antibiotics that target many different pathways. Some target cell membranes, some target oxidative phosphorylation pathways and there are many others. Often antibiotics are prescribed to efficiently target bacteria likely to be found in certain parts of the body.
- Richandler, on 12/02/2007, -1/+4Our own bodies have tons of antibiotic resistant bacteria already. If we didn't people would die from antibiotics all the time.
- inactive, on 12/02/2007, -0/+3Nice work Jane!
- WallyAnti, on 12/02/2007, -0/+3Also, there's the nasty issue present that we are actively improving these bacterium and making them better at killing us. You don't necessarily need to eat bacteria to get infected. You could say cut your finger whilst washing/preparing it, and boom, you're infected with a drug resistant superbug. If your assertion be true then we should just forgo the antibiotics in the first place.
- WallyAnti, on 12/02/2007, -0/+2Also what of the very good chance that you become infected before cooking; What if you were washing the chicken or cutting it up raw and sliced your finger? That's not good.
- tybris, on 12/02/2007, -0/+2Who cares how you cook your chicken? The point is that the behaviour of the industry might be creating resistant bacteria, which is actually a pretty big deal.
- Easyoffbam, on 12/02/2007, -0/+2NO it's not ironic!
- inf0, on 12/02/2007, -0/+2you sir, are correct... scary stuff indeed..
- Stroggoth, on 12/02/2007, -1/+3That is why you buy chickens raised without antibiotics. You'll eventually put the mass-abusers out of business. As long as people are willing to pay $1.00 less for the antibiotic-pumped chicken, it will continue. I'm not a health food junkie or anything, but I buy organic milk and chicken just to lower the amount of hormones and antibiotics I ingest.
- Smight, on 12/02/2007, -0/+2Everyone's gonna die! We'll explain at 11.
- BossKey, on 12/02/2007, -0/+2"Well at least I got chicken."
- Albionshores, on 12/02/2007, -0/+2They sell it in their fish-and-chip shops, it's actually surpisingly good but you feel afterwards like you're drifting into a calorie induced coma. But when they start taking candy bars, dipping them in batter and then deepfrying them you know you're in the heartattack capital of the world!
- Le3f, on 12/02/2007, -2/+4Yes, cooking food kills bacteria, congratulations to all of you who felt the need to point that out.
The point here was that this bacteria is antibiotic-resistant, the implications of which are slightly more concerning...
I'm pretty sure this isn't one of those "your government is trying to scare you" stories... - mr_bako2, on 12/02/2007, -0/+2I thought this was common knowledge myself. I don't see the need to be scared when a simple trip to the oven will rid Mr. Chicken of all of those nasty bacteria
- Cowfrommars, on 12/02/2007, -1/+3BAM. And the dirt is gone.
I'm so getting dugg down for this; nobody will get the reference. - adml_shake, on 12/02/2007, -0/+2Thank god for the Colonel! If anyone can save us it's him! Or the clone we'll have to make....
- CaviMike, on 12/02/2007, -1/+3See, the human body was once immune to this stuff, with the rare few people that could get sick from it. I used to eat raw eggs every day, but one guy in California gets sick and now the whole planet is told it could die from a raw egg. Now NO ONE is immune to salmonella anymore. Don't you people get it? You need to be exposed to it in order to gain an immunity to it. We are making ourselves weaker every day. We have literally reversed our evolution.
- redxxx, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1that and the misuse of properly prescribed antibiotics. People who stop taking them once they start to feel better, even though there are still bacteria running about in their system.
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