They also found that higher rates of meat eating, per capita health expenditure and the percentage of the population that was overweight were each associated with a higher risk of endometrial cancer.
This would be a significant outcome for Austrian agriculture with its current dominance by livestock production, driven by high rates of meat consumption both in Austria and its trading partners.
"Although this issue has been reported on for a long time, Americans continue to have really high rates of meat consumption, particularly children," said Kari Hamerschlag, senior analyst at EWG and author of the new report.
Conversely, those cities with low rates of meat contamination had lower rates of asymptomatic carriage.
Higher rates of meat contamination were observed in those states with higher poverty levels.
Socioeconomic indicators and the rates of meat contamination and human Salmonella infections for each state are compared in Table 1.
Although similar rates of meat consumption were reported, schoolchildren in Ypsilanti were more likely to report consuming two or more servings of fried meats including chicken, steak, pork or fish (7.5% for Ypsilanti vs 3.2% for Ann Arbor; P = 0.02).
Significant findings were 1) high rates of meat contamination (21.3%–36.4%), 2) high rates of ceftriaxone-resistant S. Typhimurium in chicken, ill humans, and swine (77.3%, 66.3%, and 40.4% of S. Typhimurium T isolates, respectively), and 3) the emergence of ciprofloxacin resistance in S. Heidelberg (10.4%) and S. Typhimurium (1.7%) from swine.
GM livestock include many different kinds of animals and species modified with the intention of improving economically important traits such as growth-rate, quality of meat, milk composition, disease resistance and survival.
Hot conditions depress the growth rate of modern meat-type chickens (broilers) due to elevation in body temperature, and consequently they yield less meat with poorer feed efficiency [ 23].
