If you’re just another run of the mill bacteria looking to get by in life, then the phrase “you are what you eat” definitely applies to you.
Two-thirds of all store-bought whole broiler chickens contain salmonella and/or campylobacter, according to a study by Consumer Reports. The magazine tested 383 chickens it purchased in 100 supermarkets, gourmet- and natural-food stores, and other mass retailers in 22 states and found an alarmingly high level of contamination.
More than 80 percent of Tyson and Foster Farms chickens contained either one or both salmonella and capylobacter, making them the name-brand chickens with the most contaminates. On the other hand, Perdue had the cleanest chickens with 56 percent of their birds found to be free from food-borne organisms. Consumer Reports found the safest purchase to be air-chilled, organic broilers with 40 percent containing one or both salmonella or campylobacter.
I’m sure that this is incredibly serious news, especially to a poultry consumer like myself, but the direness of the issue is just not something that I can grab. I mean, it’s no good at all that chickens are clearly poisoning themselves in order to slay mankind. That’s incredibly bad and disheartening. But I can’t stop laughing at the name “campylobacter.”
BWAHAHAHA! Campylobacter!