Antibiotics….

….right up there with ISIS and maybe even climate change.  This is only one of several reports in the past week on the menace of antibiotic resistant superbugs.  And this article makes the point that you’re not really protected simply by refusing the drugs for yourself, except in dire emergencies.

http://news.yahoo.com/dangerously-high-antibiotic-resistance-levels-worldwide-112717705.html

Thistle Hill never uses antibiotics that will find its way into our meat, of course, but 70% of all the antibiotic consumption in the United States is used in agriculture.