Overmedicated farm animals may kill us and themselves

Pesticide and drug addicted industrialized farming is thinking protect profit while they may be killing us, their animals and ultimately their profit as well. We need to stop them!

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Farm antibiotics, human illness and what connects them. (It has legs.)

That the use of antibiotics on conventional/confinement farms provokes the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria really isn’t in dispute; it’s been proven, over and over again, for about 30 years now.

FoodNet, monitors the prevalence of 10 illness-causing organisms, but doesn’t test for antibiotic resistance.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest says yes. In a white paper published this week, the group documents 35 outbreaks between 1973 and 2009 for which epidemiologic and microbiological links are clear. Read more at www.wired.com

 

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