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Could E. Coli Be Clucking Its Way To You?
The nonprofit organization Consumers Union discovered that grocery store shelves are stuffed with contaminated meat. In fact, their research indicates that as much as two-thirds of chicken found in grocery stores holds bacteria that’s resistant to a few of the most frequent kinds of antibiotics.
These tests show that dirty factory farms are feeding us bacteria that can lead to all kinds of health problems. For women specifically, that could indicate uncomfortable or even painful urinary tract infections (UTIs).
“In 80 to 90 percent of routine urinary tract infections, E. coli is the most common cause,” admits Amy Manges, PhD, associate professor in the department of epidemiology, biostatistics and occupational health at McGill University.
Manges discovered that supermarket chicken might very well be the source of where the E. coli is coming from.
“People are eating a lot more chicken because it’s often perceived as healthier,” Manges says. “But what people don’t realize is that chicken is pretty heavily contaminated with bacteria in general, and those bacteria tend to be drug resistant.”
Manges has been examining separate E. coli strains for years, particularly bacteria called extraintestinal pathogenicEscherichia coli. This is a type of the bacterium that resides in your intestines and is most frequently seen at the root of UTIs. Because it’s not as potent as the deadlier strain of E. coli called E. coli O157 (which is frequently called back during food recalls), it often goes unnoticed by food manufacturers upon sending out the chicken.
For her study, Manges collected urine samples from women across Canada and California who had been afflicted with UTIs and compared the E. coli bacteria in those samples with E. coli discovered in pieces of beef, pork, and chicken from grocery stores in the nearby area. They also gathered E. coli samples from animals slaughtered at certain slaughterhouses.
What they found was that 71 percent of the E. coli bacteria from women with UTIs matched that of the E. coli found in grocery store chicken, with only 29 percent of the bacteria found in women afflicted with UTIs matching E. coli samples found in the beef and pork. Likewise, the E. coli bacteria taken from factory-farm slaughterhouse chickens matched UTI bacteria a whopping 79 percent of the time– compared to a paltry three percent for cattle and just 17 percent for pigs.
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