80% 0f Antibiotics are Fed to Farm Animals – and it’s killing us!
Here’s something we should all be aware of (especially when we go food shopping):
I hope you signed the petition… and look for the label in the meat department that tells you your steak is from a cow raised without antibiotics.
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- Poultry Farming: Enrofloxacin in the antibiotics (insomniacanonymous.wordpress.com)
- The CAFO – MRSA Connection (ediblearia.com)
- Avoiding antibiotics in meat getting harder: report (ctv.ca)
- Why Is Something That Is Killing Thousands Every Year Still Legal? (upworthy.com)
- Consumer Reports scrutinizes antibiotic use in food production (cbsnews.com)
- Your meat on drugs: Will grocery stores cut out antibiotics? (grist.org)
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Posted on July 16, 2012, in Advertising, animals, Announcement, Corporations, Family, Farm, Fast Food, food, Health Care, News, Opinion, Organic Gardening, Restaurants, Science, Warning, Word from Bill and tagged Antibacterial, Consumer Reports, Consumers Union, factory farms, food, Food and Drug Administration, meat, United States. Bookmark the permalink. 1 Comment.
Crazy isn’t it? And on a related note… Overuse of antibiotics is THE reason we are seeing resistant strains in hospitals, and in “the wild”. Yet everywhere we go- public bathrooms, by the carts at grocery and chain stores…at banks and in offices, we see hand sanitizers supposedly designed to kill germs.
and yet, there is a growing body of scientific evidence that children raised around pets, on farms, etc-, end up with a much healthier immune system.
I have spent my entire life around animals, around farms, around germ ridden environments. And I can count on one hand the times I have been sick in the bast 20 years. Go figure. (to add- I am pretty much an oppurtunistic vegan. Vegan 350+ days a year. Only eating meat friends raise or have hunted/fished. And the vast majority of my diet is organic- and has been since my late teens).