Tag Directory > Trichinosis
- Home
- >>
Tags
We have 18 results for Trichinosis.
1Memo to NYT ?Free-Range Trichinosis? Editorialist: Food Safety Advocates Can Handle Transparency 1 Citation Last Friday, an op-ed hit the pages of the New York Times written by James McWilliams (? Free Range Trichinosis ?) purporting that free-range pork was more likely to be contaminated with the deadly parasite trichonosis than its industrially sardined and antibiotic-overdosed cousin. The writer chose to take this information from a single study funded by the National Pork Board, a lobbying group for industrial pork operations, and neglected to mention that the the two free-range pigs (out of 600, technorati.com
|
1 Citation Yes! The Spring issue of Yes! magazine is entirely devoted to food and mentions the Eat Well Guide. Thank you, Yes! Failure to yield That?s the name of a new report from the Union of Concerned Scientists on yield increases in Bt cotton and corn, which Elanor at The Ethicurean calls ?stunningly lame.? Meanwhile, NPR reports that the so-called Green Revolution has resulted, for India, in an agriculture system that is unprofitable, unsustainable and on the brink of collapse. Plas, technorati.com
|
Swine Flu: Mexico Death Toll Rises to 149 1 Citation The suspected death toll from the outbreak of swine flu in Mexico rose Monday to 149 people as health authorities cancelled all schools across the country until May 6. Mexican cabinet officials led by Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova gave a press conference today in Mexico City with the latest information they have gathered about the outbreak of a deadly new strain of swine flu that has halted many aspects of public life here and appears to continue to be spreading.Since the first case of, technorati.com
|
McWilliams Responds to Pork Fooforaw 1 Citation If you enjoy thought provoking discussions about food - the good, bad, and the ugly - but haven't been reading The Atlantic's Food section of late, take a gander. I was impressed in particular with their inviting James McWilliams to respond to those who have criticized his recent New York Times Op-Ed , in which he declared that free-range pigs carry more disease than those raised in confined quarters. Most of the fooforaw - and McWilliams' thoughtful response to it - has centered on, technorati.com
|
Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future Response to NYTimes Op-Ed 1 Citation In response to last week?s Op-Ed in the New York Times by James E. McWilliams entitled Free-Range Trichinosis, the folks from Center for a Livable Future at Johns Hopkins University wrote this blog. April 10th, 2009 Smoked ?Bacon? and Mirrors Why didn?t Op-Ed author reveal National Pork Board paid for Trichinosis study? Having spent the majority of my career as a journalist I tend to be skeptical of almost everything I hear or read. Over the years my ?bull-crap? alarm has become qu, technorati.com
|
1 Citation In the name of MAHDI, I greet the reader, PEACE! I saw this on the news recently and was DISTURBED. Just do the 1 NOWLEDGE, Please WASH your HANDS and Keep an EYE on your PORK-CHOP Affiliates & LOVED ONES! A Phoenix Woman was diagnosed with a brain tumor during surgery to their surprise the tumor was a worm from eating pork or someone handling uncooked pork without washing their hands.... Today I watched the pilot of one of my favorite TV-Shows, HOUSE. He dia, technorati.com
|
Don't Eat That Pork: Trichy Words From The Prof 1 Citation The New York Times featured an Op-Ed entitled "Free-Range Trichinosis" from a history professor in Austin, Texas, James E. McWilliams. I initially found this article hard to respond to because I felt the author said a lot without saying anything at all. The more I considered it, the more I understood his real message and the need to blunt the impact of his words. The author's intended take-away is clear: Free-range pork will make you sick. The science proves it. Marion Nestle, a well-known e, technorati.com
|
1 Citation Ok, everyone once in a while the NYT crosses the line with its op-ed lineup from interesting perspectives not often considered by regular readers, to the typewritten equivalent of the infomercial. James McWilliams piece on the 9th was one such piece of rubbish. Without delving too deeply into the numerous bits of flotsam and jetsam that McWilliams places in our path (I am sorry he won't try wild boar) lets reduce his argument to its little tiny nub. As he puts it: IS free-range pork better a, technorati.com
|
1 Citation Pork is forbidden by God as food. God said, in Leviticus 11:7, 8, that pig or swine is not clean, and of its flesh man should not eat nor touch its carcass. Some people have not known that pork is forbidden by God. Some were shown the Bible verses in Leviticus, but still persist in eating , technorati.com
|
1 Citation
|