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Maryn McKenna, editor of the SUPERBUG blog, and author of the highly acclaimed book on the CDC called Beating Back The Devil, is busily working on her soon-to-be-released book called SUPERBUG: The Rise of Drug-Resistant Staph and the Danger of a World Without Antibiotics.
Maryn recently gave an interview to the Ethicurian blog on MRSA in people . . and in pigs. It appears online today.
This interview, like her blog, is highly recommended.
Straight to the superbug supersource: Q&A with Maryn McKenna about MRSA in people — and pigs
by Bonnie P. @ 12:01 am on 14 April 2009.
Everyone’s up in arms about historian James McWilliams’ New York Times op-ed last week, misleadingly headlined “Free-Range Trichinosis,” about how a study found more pathogens in pastured pigs than factory ones. Many bloggers have taken McWilliams to task for omitting the industry funding source for the research and misrepresenting its findings, but he also erred in presenting pastured-pork fans as primarily motivated by flavor and the naive idea of “happy” pigs. I’d argue that most of us seek out small, local hog farmers because our consciences won’t let us support the industrial meat system, which is titanically destructive to any nearby land, water, and air; to the people with the misfortune to work in it; and to the sentient animals it turns into protein widgets.
