Despite years of evidence that feeding antibiotics to farm animals can be dangerous to human health, the FDA has taken few steps to regulate the drugs. A federal judge just ordered them to take some action. We trace the history.
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Do not expect this to go anywhere. The pharmaceutical industry lobby/PAC is one of the biggest on Capital Hill as is the meat industry lobby/PAC.
ReplyDelete70% of the antibiotics sold in this country goes into animal feed.
With a congress that feels that french fries should qualify as a healthy vegetable, do you really think they'll make moves on antibiotics?
ReplyDeleteWith all the drugs pumped into our food supply is it any wonder there are "super bugs" & little girls starting to mature at age 8. We'll have beefy meats & chickens but us lowly humans will be deformed, chronically ill or dead.
ReplyDeleteIt's because of factory farming. I know alot of the chicken farmers around here have chickens dying left and right day in and day out. Then whatever chickens are left which could be infected with some disease are processed and sold anyway.
ReplyDeleteThat's what's always gotten me about people who vocally complain about smokers. They don't want to breath smoke in a restaurant all the while shoveling what amounts to a pile of chemicals into their and their children's mouths.
All these childhood cancer cases are coming from something......
And arsenic which is given to chickens has been linked to bladder cancer which is becoming quite common esp in lower Delaware.