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25% of Chicken Allowed To Have Salmonella | Los Angeles Times (lemmy.ml)

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Source: https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2025-10-30/salmonella-is-widespread-in-ground-poultry-the-usda-knows-it-and-does-nothing-to-stop-it

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[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not surprised. Everyone bad mouths "the limits of grown". But every time I read stuff like this it is what comes to mind. You can only push things so far then they break in unique and unusual ways. You can't destroy the ecosystem and climate and use industrial farming then expect nothing bad to happen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth#Criticism_and_responses

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Though the issue is a bit more specific than just industrial farming in this case. Meat, dairy, etc. production is inherently really inefficient compared to eating plants because you have to do so much more farming for animal feed where most of the energy is lost

we show that plant-based replacements for each of the major animal categories in the United States (beef, pork, dairy, poultry, and eggs) can produce twofold to 20-fold more nutritionally similar food per unit cropland. Replacing all animal-based items with plant-based replacement diets can add enough food to feed 350 million additional people, more than the expected benefits of eliminating all supply chain food loss.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1713820115

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

can add enough food to feed 350 million additional people

Good thing birth rates are declining and we’ll all be dead from climate change related disasters and shortages before we need to worry about supporting another 350 million people.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 days ago

For what it's worth, moving towards a plant-based diet also helps with climate change too

Transitioning to plant-based diets (PBDs) has the potential to reduce diet-related land use by 76%, diet-related greenhouse gas emissions by 49%, eutrophication by 49%, and green and blue water use by 21% and 14%, respectively, whilst garnering substantial health co-benefits

https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/8/1614/html

[–] jve@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Good thing

Whew!