Undercover Investigation Reveals Serious Hygiene Concerns At Chicken Farms

The Damning Verdict By The British Medical Association.

In an unprecedented attack on David Cameron, the British Medical Association has warned that his flagship policies have not helped the sick, frail and elderly.
The damning verdict is supported by a show of distrust in the Tories and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, with a staggering 95% of the country’s doctors saying they do not agree that the PM’s policies have improved the quality of patient care.
The BMA, which represents 150,000 medics and is Britain’s biggest doctors’ union, wants the Health and Social Care Act – which opened up the NHS to the private sector – to be scrapped.
At a cost of £3billion, it has been branded a ‘fiasco’ and has taken vital funding away from frontline services since being implemented last year, according to medical experts.
( Andrew Gregory, 23.06.2014 )

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt wants the NHS to be “a functioning market”.
So goodbye, Nye Bevan’s dream.
( Paul Routledge, 05.06.2015 )

Mental Health Breakdown Is A Life-Threatening Illness.

Our appalling attitude toward mental health is summed up in the tragic story of a mum with postnatal depression who killed her baby.
Erin Sutherland, 36, admitted smothering her nine-month-old daughter, Chloe, after she was refused further psychiatric help because it was more than six months since she gave birth.
Imagine being denied ongoing treatment for a leg fracture because it had been more than six months since it happened?
The same with cancer or any other life-threatening disease?
Mental health breakdown is a life-threatening illness.
When are we going to start believing that and treating it appropriately.
( Fiona Phillips, 27.06.2015 )

Undercover Investigation Reveals Serious Hygiene Concerns At Chicken Farms.

Three of the UK’s leading supermarkets have launched emergency investigations into their chicken supplies after a Guardian investigation uncovered a catalogue of alleged hygiene failings in the poultry industry.
Undercover footage, photographic evidence and information from whistleblowers has revealed how strict industry hygiene standards to prevent the contamination of chicken with the potentially deadly campylobacter bug can be flouted on the factory floor and on farms.

Specific incidents identified include a factory floor flooded with chickens guts in which the bacteria can flourish, carcasses coming into contact with workers’ boots then returned to the production line and other poor practices involving points in the production chain that increase the risk of its spread.
The evidence prompted Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Marks & Spencer to launch emergency investigations into their chicken sources over the last week.

The concern centres on the bacteria campylobacter, which at the last count was present in two-thirds of British fresh chicken sold in the UK.
Although the bug is killed by thorough cooking, around 280,000 people in the UK are currently made ill each year by it and 100 people are thought to die.
Contamination rates are known to have increased in the past decade.
( The Guardian, 23.07.2014 )  ..  theguardian.com

The Tory Government Is Secretly Privatising The NHS.

One by one the Government is alienating, as well as secretly privatising, our treasured public services.
Not content with ignoring the expertise of teachers, knocking them as dangerous Marxists and ‘enemies of promise’ at every turn and threatening ‘dawn raids’ by inspectors as though schools were crack dens, they’ve now launched their discrediting hit squad on doctors.
The British Medical Association said patients were being put at risk by ‘brutal disinvestment’ in general practise and are now often waiting two weeks for GP appointments.

BMA Council member Chaand Nagpaul warned that GP services are ‘imploding’, and could affect the future of the entire NHS.
In reply, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said doctors were ‘scaremongering’.
So there you have it, our esteemed Government is overseeing a bunch of militant, useless teachers and lying, incompetent doctors.
Funny that, because most teachers and doctors I’ve met are some of the most passionate, determined, caring people around.
The Government is on a mission to bring the NHS to its knees, so total privatisation can be hailed as the big rescuer.
Teachers and doctors are the ones who know the truth.
( Fiona Phillips, 28.06.2014 )

Avoid Farmed Salmon.

Although fish sounds like one of the healthiest foods possible, farmed salmon is one you should avoid.
Unfortunately, more than 60% of the salmon consumed in the USA is farm raised.
These fish are fed unnatural diets and are contaminated with chemicals, antibiotics, pesticides, and other known carcinogens.
They live in very crowded conditions which results in these fish having 30 times the number of sea lice than wild salmon.

Farmed salmon are fed chemicals to make their meat that reddish pink colour that should occur naturally but doesn’t because of the diet of chicken litter that they are fed.
Also, due to their diet, they have less of the healthy omega-3 that we think we are getting when we consume fish.
Studies have also shown that farmed salmon contain high levels of PCB’s, mercury, and cancer causing dioxins.
Avoid farmed salmon and buy it canned or look for labels in your market that state the fish you are buying is wild sockeye salmon.
( Natural Health News, 09.05.2014 )

NHS Staff Battling To Cope Deserve Praise.

David Cameron should listen to his doctor brother-in-law about the terrible state of the National Health Service.
Cardiologist Carl Brookes, husband of the Tory leader’s sister Tania, has done us all a favour, including perhaps even Cameron himself, by highlighting the danger the NHS is in.
Because the Prime Minister cannot shirk his share of blame.
He was the one who imposed a £3billion management nightmare on the NHS instead of spending that wasted money on an alternative plan to link hospitals and social services.
This would have enabled vulnerable, frail and elderly patients to be moved back into their homes instead of blocking beds.

Labour’s Andy Burnham understands what is wrong in the NHS.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt appears unable to grasp what needs to be done.
So too does Cameron, an ideological PM behind that smirk.
He wants to privatise parts of the NHS, fragmenting care, when what we need is seamless co-ordination.
NHS staff battling to cope deserve praise.
Cameron and Co are inflicting more damage than any superbug.
( Daily Mirror, 02.02.2015 )