Bird risk far from paltry

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Published: 9 Feb 2013 at 00.00
Newspaper section: News

Dr Nithi Mahanonda (''No need to chicken out'', Life, Feb 5) makes good points about the health problems associated with eating chicken.

In particular I'd like to respond to his comments about salmonella and campylobacter which cause food poisoning and kills many people every year.

In his book, The Power of Your Plate, Dr Neal Barnard quotes former US secretary of agriculture Carol Tucker as saying: ''People have gone to the store and picked up packages of poultry and taken them off to a laboratory and checked them for salmonella contamination. The number of birds contaminated has been shown in several studies to be around a third.''

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jck
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Discussion 10 : 09 Feb 2013 at 09.0210
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Good education requires at least one more additional thing not mentioned by Kuldeep Nagi, although he may have assumed it to be a given. It should be the first priority and it is having first class teachers who have been properly trained and supported by a ministry that pays them according to their skills and not by how many students can pass a multiple choice exam.
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Discussion 9 : 09 Feb 2013 at 08.559
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"Second, the delivery methods should be technology-driven."
KULDEEP NAGI

I would counter that most of the emphasis in education should be on learning-methods, not delivery methods and that the learning methods should be technology-driven.

Firstly, Thai teachers spent far too much time droning on endlessly with little or no effect.

Secondly, few of them have any technology knowledge at all, and in this regard are far out-stripped by their students.

Thirdly, modern pedagogy is about self-discovery through constructivist learning. This should be the focus of any education reform.
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Discussion 8 : 09 Feb 2013 at 08.008
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The only time I got sick living in Thailand was when I had a salad at a restaurant. I have never gotten sick from eating fried chicken, pork, or a big whopper.
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Discussion 7 : 09 Feb 2013 at 07.397
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The only time I got sick living in Thailand was when I had a salad at a restaurant. I have never gotten sick from eating fried chicken, pork, or a big whopper.
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Discussion 6 : 09 Feb 2013 at 07.336
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RE Bird risk far from paltry
Eric I am 68 and a meat and veg eater all my life. If I had read, listened to and obeyed all the warnings about all the different foods and drinks that I have taken I would have been dead of starvation years ago. What I do now in my life is eat and drink reasonable amounts of the sort that I have done all my life.
Many people seem to have an axe to grind about many things, you are one but that is your choice to make and I make my own mind up as you do and go my own way.
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Discussion 5 : 09 Feb 2013 at 07.265
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Eric Bahrt. Just reading about how much of the vegetables we eat are contaminated by killer bacteria also. And with the over use of pesticides what to do? Stop eating veggies?
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Discussion 4 : 09 Feb 2013 at 07.184
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Eric:
“As for campylobacter, it may have a contamination rate in the USA as high as 80% and is also often antibiotic resistant. It infects at least 2 million Americans a year”.

Doesn’t that work out at around 0.8% of Americans?
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Discussion 3 : 09 Feb 2013 at 07.163
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I had a little bet that Madam You Ay would write in and rebut that article criticising Cambodia, she always does (I won the bet!), well that's her job. But knowing Cambodia and Hun Sen as we do, from countless news reports in the BP and other papers, we can quite obviously draw a conclusion that the Khmer Rouge Tribunal has been mostly a failure to bring anyone except one leader to justice, and with the Cambodia Govt under the tight control of Hun Sen for 20 years - a former Khmer Rouge himself - one can safely assume why. Furthermore, report from major international organisations, such as 'the Family Tree' shows a dishonest leadership.
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Discussion 2 : 09 Feb 2013 at 06.352
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Edward: As a rule, I always believe the opposite to what a politician says. They have difficulty understanding the word "integrity". Besides, the system is hopelessly corrupt. People pay huge sums to be in the Cabinet. He may just be trying to create the impression that there will be integrity in the use of the 2.2 trillion Baht in order to create a smokescreen to the real intention. Politics in Thailand is about amassing personal wealth. Find me an honest Thai (Cabinet) politician and I'll find a lump of gold lying on Sukhumvit Road for you.
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Discussion 1 : 09 Feb 2013 at 04.551
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Homework for the 'Post'.
A textbook denial of the obvious by a representative of a dictatorship which,of course,includes a direct threat to the free press "To present this kind of negative speculation as fact is extremely dangerous and very much manipulative",in this case to our beloved Bangkok Post.
Despite efforts,by a close friend and ideologic comrade of the Cambodian despot,to the contrary,Thailand is still a rather free Country in comparison to it's eastern neighbour.
We are many who hopes it stays that way.
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