Want to make pork unhealthy?

Just feed your pigs anti-biotics.  That’s the finding of a new study.  All the pork you buy at the store has been raised in confinement houses, much as chickens are grown.  To keep them from getting sick and dying, they are dosed with anti-biotics.  It also apparently aids feed conversion so the hogs grow faster.

The result, not surprisingly, is that pigs have now developed anti-biotic resistant genes.  And of course, that resistance is passed on to the consumer.  Ironically, taking the anti-biotics also encourages the growth of e.Coli in the pigs.  It’s what is called a “lose-lose” proposition, exception for those big food companies.  Here’s a link to the story:

http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-insights-antibiotics-pig.html

Oh, needless to say, Thistle Hill pigs are never fed anti-biotics; neither are our cows.  But we thought we’d say it anyway.