Beer marinade cuts steak cancer risk

sea-maid submitted, created time 4 days 16 hours (www.newscientist.com)

IF YOU are frying a steak and mindful of your health, then marinate it in either beer or red wine. So say food scientists who measured amounts of a family of carcinogens found in fried steaks after steeping them in booze.

Cooking food increases levels of cancer-causing compounds called heterocyclic amines (HAs). Fried and grilled meat are particularly high in these compounds, because fiery temperatures convert the sugars and amino acids in muscle tissue into HAs

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A sugar helps E. coli go down

sea-maid submitted, created time 2 months 1 week (www.sciencenews.org)

Sugar present in red meat and dairy found to be a risk factor for E. coli infection.

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U.S. company recalls about 286,000 pounds of meat

sea-maid submitted, created time 8 months 20 hours (www.reuters.com)

A New York company is voluntarily recalling about 286,000 pounds (129,700 kg) of fresh and frozen meat and poultry products that may be contaminated with bacteria. The meat may be contaminated with Listeria monocyotogenes bacteria, which can cause a rare but potentially fatal disease known as listeriosis.

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Food miles don't feed climate change - meat does

Eric wu submitted, created time 8 months 2 weeks (environment.newscientist.com)

That locally-produced, free-range, organic hamburger might not be as green as you think.

An analysis of the environmental toll of food production concludes that transportation is a mere drop in the carbon bucket. Foods such as beef and dairy make a far deeper impression on a consumer's carbon footprint

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Milk and Honey, er, Hormones

Charles submitted, created time 11 months 2 weeks (www.sciam.com)

Bowing to pressure from consumer advocates, Pennsylvania officials have dropped plans to bar farmers from revealing whether or not milk hails from hormone-enhanced cows. The state's agriculture department on Thursday issued new guidelines that allow dairies to label milk so that customers know if it was produced from cows pumped with recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) also known as recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST)

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Report: Tainted Hogs Enter Food Supply

fiona submitted, created time 1 year 8 months (www.physorg.com)

"The government told the three states involved it would not allow meat from any of the hogs that ate the feed to enter the food supply. "

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