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To: epicure who wrote (104543)	5/18/2005 6:43:43 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

Yikes is right! I found so many parts of that interview amazing. Like this part! Are there environmental health problems associated with meat production? Absolutely. One striking example is in our own back yard. We are looking at changes in the microbiologic flora and fauna of the surface water on the eastern shore of Maryland, where a billion chickens a year are raised. The chicken feed contains antibiotics and arsenic, which is used as a biocide. And the arsenic ends up in what we euphemistically call "chicken litter", chicken excrement. That is put back on the fields to grow soybeans and the corn to feed the chickens, but in such quantities that the arsenic is now leaching into the surface water. A colleague was trying to see whether this enormous industrial agricultural production could explain the arsenic in drinking water on the eastern shore, and the appearance of antibiotic-resistant bacteria because of chronic exposure to low levels of antibiotics.

To: epicure who wrote (104543)	5/18/2005 6:46:30 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I thought this paragraph of the interview was very yikes invoking, also! Another big problem with eating a lot of animal fats is the organic pollutants that travel in teh fatty layer of tissues. So dioxins, PCBs and pesticides end up in the food supply. About 30 percent of animal feed for hogs and beef is recycled animal fat. And then there are endocrine disrupters, hormones and growth promoters used in the beef industry and increasingly in some of the other animal products. We need a lot more data, but what is emerging suggests that these endocrine disrupters play a role in everything from lowering the age of menarche to explaining the continued increase in breast cancer compared with other cancers.