While the PCRM’s request of the USDA to label all meat and poultry with a biohazard label is laughable, they do bring up an important issue: current factory farming practices can cause some serious illness due to fecal contamination.

A PCRM representative said on the radio today that every day 200,000 people become ill from food poisoning and in the majority of those cases, it’s due to fecal contamination of the meat or poultry that they’ve eaten. While it may sound like a scare tactic, it’s enough to perk my ears up.