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Emerging diseases in livestock, wildlife, and humans are also traceable to industrial farming practices. This includes antibiotic-resistant diseases, mad cow disease in cows, and chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer and elk. Infectious proteins causing mad cow and CWD have also been implicated in Alzheimers disease in humans—the only differentiating factor being the time it takes for symptoms and death to occur. According to one estimate, up to 13 percent of all Alzheimers victims may actually have mad cow infection, acquired from eating contaminated CAFO meat. The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) also attribute nearly 133,000 illnesses each year to contaminated chicken parts. The agency has set a goal to reduce illness by 34 percen
Posted on: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 01:17:20 +0000

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