Your supper & superbugs - (Pittsburg Tribune Review)
November 19, 2007 – 7:00 pmHeather Moore, a senior writer for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, writes that approximately 70 percent of the antibiotics used in the United States aren’t given to human patients — they are fed to farmed animals. The filthy, crowded conditions on factory farms are breeding grounds for disease.
Billions of chickens, turkeys, pigs and other animals killed for food each year in this country live mired in their own waste. The conditions are so deplorable that the animals are fed a steady dose of antibiotics just to keep them alive long enough to send them to slaughter.
Moore says that anyone who eats meat, milk or eggs is also eating the antibiotics given to the animals raised for those products. Scientists fear that the overuse of antibiotics in farmed animals is causing the spread of antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
One USDA study showed that 66 percent of beef samples were contaminated with […]
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