"Joanne Canda-Alvarez found her 9-year-old son splayed out on his bedroom floor, unable to move and foaming at the mouth. The day before, Jayven had been playing golf with his family. Now he was completely paralysed by the sudden onset of a rare autoimmune disease that doctors linked to campylobacter, a bacteria mainly found in poultry products.

Canda-Alvarez and her husband did not know whether their son would survive – he was on a ventilator in hospital and unable to even speak. But his mother could see how scared he was. “I could tell it in his eyes,” she said.

Nearly four years after falling sick, Jayven still struggles to control his hands and his right foot, a result of lasting nerve damage. “Nobody has an answer to if he'll ever recover fully — if his body will ever be the same,” said his mother.

Campylobacter is America’s biggest cause of foodborne illness, just ahead of salmonella. Both are potentially fatal. Yet between 2015 and 2020, U.S. companies sold tens of thousands of meat products contaminated with campylobacter and salmonella, according to government sampling records obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. More than half of these were contaminated with antibiotic-resistant strains, a rapidly escalating issue that can be exacerbated by poor hygiene conditions.

The poultry companies supply major grocery stores and fast-food chains. Tyson has supplied chicken to McDonald’s, Perdue has sold to Whole Foods, and both have supplied Walmart.

Although the USDA deems a certain level of salmonella and campylobacter within poultry acceptable, 12 major U.S. poultry companies — including poultry giants Perdue, Pilgrim’s Pride, Tyson, Foster Farms, and Koch Foods — have exceeded USDA standards for acceptable levels of salmonella multiple times since 2018, when the government began reporting contamination rates at individual plants, according to the department’s records. The USDA still runs tests for campylobacter in processing plants but does not currently track whether plants exceed the contamination thresholds.

Batches of poultry products with contamination rates above the limit don’t have to be recalled, although plants that repeatedly exceed the thresholds can be temporarily shut down.

Separate government records also show that between January 2015 and August 2019, the same 12 major U.S. poultry companies broke food safety rules on at least 145,000 occasions — or on average more than 80 times a day.

Poultry plant workers also claimed they have sometimes been asked to process rotten-smelling meat, have witnessed chicken tossed into grinders with dead insects, and found government safety inspectors apparently asleep on the job.

“Since the meat comes to us really dirty, when we open the box, it’s like, ‘Let’s see what’s inside!’” alleged one worker at a Tyson plant in Springdale, Arkansas. “Sometimes it has flies, it has crickets, cockroaches in there already froze.” He claimed that when he pointed this out to the supervisors, they seemed to show little interest — and so the insects ended up being put into the grinder with the meat.

PHYSICAL THERAPIST KATIE CLICK WORKS WITH JAYVEN REYNOLDS CANADA ALVAREZ, 12, AT HAWAIIAN REHABILITATION SERVICES IN KAILUA-KONA, HAWAII, ON JAN. 18, 2020. (GILAD THALER/VICE NEWS.)"

not the full thing read it thru here

vice.com/en/article/5dg49z/antibiotic-resistant-salmonella-campylobacter-chicken

imagine your son almost dying from mf chick fil a

"Ashley Queipo believes an impromptu trip to Chick-fil-A in April 2020 likely resulted in her son fighting for his life. After a long morning of home-schooling in their home town of Brooksville, Florida, the family headed to the drive-through as a treat.

Eight-year-old Chace ordered his favorite: chicken nuggets. But within hours, he fell seriously ill. When he was hospitalized with salmonella, tests showed the infection was resistant to all antibiotics.

“You don't think that going through a drive-through and handing that brown paper bag to your kid in the back seat could cost them potentially their life,” said Queipo. “But that is the reality.”

She believes the nuggets made him sick. It was one of the last meals he ate before falling ill and the only one neither of his parents had prepared.

Queipo didn’t report the incident to the restaurant because the family initially thought the illness was caused by a virus, and by the time it was diagnosed as salmonella, she was focused on her son’s condition. Chick-fil-A declined to comment.

“The odds were really against him,” Queipo remembered. “He was so dehydrated, he had a fever, and he was hallucinating. His body was trying so hard to fight it. And it just couldn’t.” Chace’s stomach and bowels stopped working, but doctors were left with no treatment options beyond inserting a tube into a vein near his heart to give him nutrition.

CHACE QUEIPO, 8, SLEEPING IN A TAMPA, FLORIDA, HOSPITAL AFTER CONTRACTING SALMONELLA IN APRIL 2020. (PHOTO COURTESY OF ASHLEY QUEIPO)"

"Antibiotics catalysed this chicken boom. The d**** had transformed human healthcare after they became widely available in the 1940s, but farmers soon discovered that antibiotics not only curb disease but also stimulate growth in animals.

It wasn’t long before America’s poultry producers were pumping antibiotics into animals at all stages of production, be it injections given to day-old chickens or d**** put in feed to fatten up broiler birds. Antibiotics also helped suppress the diseases common in industrially farmed birds that were reared in cramped and unsanitary conditions.

Certain procedures changed over time and some rules have been tightened in recent years – FDA regulations now ban the use of the d**** on animals to promote growth – but the consequences of antibiotic overuse are still being felt today. Some studies from Europe have shown that it can take at least eight years for resistant strains of bacteria to decline after antibiotic use is curtailed.

Bacteria evolve to develop resistance to the antibiotics attacking them; the more the d**** are used, the more resistance to them rises. As such, antimicrobial resistance has become a major cause of death, directly killing an estimated 1.27 million people in 2019 and linked to almost 5 million deaths around the world, according to a recent study published in the Lancet. In America, antibiotic-resistant superbugs kill more than 35,000 people each year and make another 2.8 million sick."

been off meat f*** that how can you trust that s*** whatsoever

humanity's greatest villian

Salmonella rly the WOAT bacteria name

Shyt sounds like seafood dipping sauce

Always knew American chicken was dirty

So Canes lied to me

Give these to Trump voters

omg i’m gonna go live on rogan’s property. f that

If you think this is exclusive to America, I've got a copy of Yeezus II to sell you

Vegans and vegetarians are winning like never before. I need to get on that

Damn I just had Chick-fil-A yesterday and that s*** slapped

I need to stop buying meat from international chains and start supporting local producers. This is pretty scary.

visit your local producers and you'll be disturbed by what you see

US food regulations

globalism

I knew you were about to post up in here

just gotta flex my superior moral acumen u kno

Yeezus won't save you from grimy chicken

Sorry about the kid but im built different

For now

It's not like veggies mixed with pesticides are the saving grace of all life as well

The entire food industry is s***.