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Below is a look at the many ways consumption of meat and dairy is bad for human health, as well as links to vegan athletes who find their health improved by veganism. (Check back for more entries.)
Disease and cancer linked to meat in diet
Below are stories and studies showing the ill effects of including meat in one's diet.
Vegan athletes
Think veganism will get in the way of your athletic dreams? Think again. Below are links to stories and sites by and about vegan athletes.
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria may be linked to factory farms
The following comes from Michael Pollan's article "Our Decrepit Food Factories" in the Dec. 16, 2007, New York Times Magazine. Click here to read the full article. This is an excerpt:
The first story is about MRSA, the very scary antibiotic-resistant strain of Staphylococcus bacteria that is now killing more Americans each year than AIDS — 100,000 infections leading to 19,000 deaths in 2005, according to estimates in The Journal of the American Medical Association. For years now, drug-resistant staph infections have been a problem in hospitals, where the heavy use of antibiotics can create resistant strains of bacteria. It’s Evolution 101: the drugs kill off all but the tiny handful of microbes that, by dint of a chance mutation, possess genes allowing them to withstand the onslaught; these hardy survivors then get to work building a drug-resistant superrace. The methicillin-resistant staph that first emerged in hospitals as early as the 1960s posed a threat mostly to elderly patients. But a new and even more virulent strain — called “community-acquired MRSA” — is now killing young and otherwise healthy people who have not set foot in a hospital. No one is yet sure how or where this strain evolved, but it is sufficiently different from the hospital-bred strains to have some researchers looking elsewhere for its origin, to another environment where the heavy use of antibiotics is selecting for the evolution of a lethal new microbe: the concentrated animal feeding operation, or CAFO.