Chemical Contamination

Chemical Residue s Are Higher in Meat

Beef contains the highest concentration of herbicides of any food sold in America, according to the national Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Sciences. Eighty percent of all the herbicides used in the U.S. are sprayed on corn and soybeans, which are used primarily as feed for cattle. When consumed by cattle, the chemicals accumulate in their bodies and are passed onto consumers in finished cuts of beef.

-- from National Research Council,
Board on Agriculture, Alternative Agriculture, 44;
National Research Council, Board on Agriculture,
Regulating Pesticides in Food, 78, Table 3-20 to 22.

Ironically, Spinach was contaminated by runoff from cattle farms during 2006:

FDA Statement on Foodborne E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak in Spinach
This statement is current as of October 12, 2006
Positive Test Results

FDA and the State of California announced today that test results from the field investigation of the outbreak of E.coli O157:H7 in spinach are positive for E.coli O157:H7. Samples of cattle feces on one of the implicated ranches tested positive based on matching genetic fingerprints for the same strain of E. coli that sickened 199 people.

The trace back investigation has narrowed to four implicated fields on four ranches. The outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7 from cattle feces was identified on one of these four ranches

    From:  http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2006/NEW01489.html
 

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