There has been lots of publicity about how the overuse of antibiotics is creating antibiotic-resistant superbugs -- one of which alone already kills 18,000 Americans a year -- more than AIDS.
Seems that 70 percent of the antibiotics used in this country are fed to healthy cattle and that pigs in particular are reservoirs of new killer bugs.
Public health types are universally opposed to feeding antibiotics to healthy cattl -- the practice is outlawed in Europe --,but they keep getting beat back in Congress by the Ag industry lobbiests. Source -- Kristof's op ed colum in 3-1-09 NY Times
Sunday, March 15, 2009
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