AR-News: (NZ)Chickens next weapons of Œmass destruction¹?

[Animalconcerns]

"Recent media reports that New Zealanders are falling ill after eating
chicken comes as no surprise", says Hans Kriek, Campaign Director of SAFE,
New Zealand¹s largest animal rights organisation.

"In New Zealand, we cram millions of chickens inside barren automated
sheds, make them walk, feed and rest in their own excrement for their
entire lives, and wonder why they carry disease? To make matters worse we
also routinely feed them antibiotic growth promotants. These chickens,
once eaten, have the potential to cause resistance to antibiotics in
humans, something of major concern to the medical profession. A 2002
Christchurch supermarket survey found twenty five percent of fresh chicken
to be contaminated with campylobacter on the outside of the packaging.
Supermarket trolleys must now be viewed quite literally as carriers ‹
carriers of a potentially deadly disease that is", says Mr Kriek.

full story:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0403/S00072.htm

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