Is Free-Range Meat Making Us Sick? - Food - The Atlantic

It is worthwhile asking whether alternatives to industrial farming also carry risks for consumers, as this post from the Atlantic does: Is Free-Range Meat Making Us Sick?. Some of the comments are interesting and (semi-) informative. I suppose that vegetarianism is one answer, but as one commenter pointed out, even veggies can carry diseases. When it comes to pork, though, there is a relatively easy way to deal with trichinosis (cook the heck out of your meat, or at least to a suitable temperature to kill the bug).